Year 2
Welcome to our Year 2 page. We will keep this page updated with key news and information on our curriculum.
Our PE days are: Monday and Thursday. Please make sure earrings and any other jewellery are taken off on those days for safety purposes.
Click here to open a plan for the year.
When we test the children on their dictations, we will send the books home for parents to look at. Please make sure they come back to school the next day – thank you.
Click here to open the presentation for our curriculum evening.
For the 'Parents Guide to Reading with your Child' please click here.
Don't forget we need to have Indoor and Outdoor P.E kits in school all week.
Mrs Chadwick/Mrs Sabir's class will be swimming and Mrs Matthew's class will be doing Indoor P.E on Mondays. Both classes will be doing Outdoor P.E on Thursdays, so remember to take any jewellery off for those days.
We have now sent home reading books and reading diaries - we will be checking the diaries when we hear the children read each week and on a Friday morning. If there is a comment from an adult stating that the book has been read and fully understood, we will be changing the reading book.
Don't forget to send in the choosing book to change on a Tuesday and the library book to change on a Friday.
Mrs Chadwick's and Mrs Sabir's class are swimming on Mondays now - remember to bring your kit in with EVERYTHING named.
We are continuing our reading challenge where the children who read their school reading book, at least 3 times a week, will get entered into a draw for the reader of the week. Lots of you have already been doing this and have taken up the challenge - keep up the great work.
Week Beginning 11th March 2024
We will be marking Comic Relief/Red Nose Day on Thursday this week, as the school will be closed on Friday. We are dressing up in crazy and zany patterns and asking children to bring in as much as they can afford to give to this excellent charity and it's many causes.
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In Maths, we are continuing our new topic about measurements linked to length and height. We will be measuring using rulers, comparing lengths and finally move onto ordering lengths and heights.
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Phonics – we are looking at near homophones these are words that sound similar to each other e.g further/father, his/hiss, quiet/quite. We will then be looking at homophones – words that sound the same but have different meanings e.g hare/hair, road/rowed, see/sea and blue/blew.
In Literacy, we will be focusing on writing labels on diagrams and evaluations of our models that we are making in design and technology.
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In PSHE, we will be discussing how to work together successfully.
We are focusing on Design and Technology this week. We will be completing a project about Fire Engines focusing on wheels and axles. We will explore wheels and axles, make models using construction kits and pegs. We will design our own fire engine and then make it using junk modelling materials, finishing off by evaluating our models, thinking about what worked well and what we would change if we made it again.
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Week beginning 18th March 2024
It is the last week of swimming for Mrs Chadwick's and Mrs Sabir's class this week, so after the Easter break, all of
the children in Year 2 will need to have their Indoor and Outdoor P.E kits in school on Monday. We have another busy week ahead and will also be sharing some books that Year 6 children have made in their French lessons.
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In Maths, we are starting a new topic called Mass, Capacity and Temperature. This week, we will be focusing on mass. We will be using balance scales looking at knowing if things are heavier or lighter than other objects. We will then move onto working out the mass of objects using standard units of measurement – grams and then kilograms. Finally, we will be completing four different types of number sentences using mass e.g.
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Phonics – we are looking at how to add suffixes to words e.g. adding 'ing' to words that end in an e -race – racing, shade – shading, adding 'ed' to words ending in e with a consonant before it – excite – excited, smile – smiled, adding 'er, est' to words ending in e with a consonant before it – nice – nicer, brave – bravest and adding' y' to words ending in e with a consonant before it – noise – noisy, grime – grimy.
In Literacy, we will be focusing on adjectives, adverbs and exciting vocabulary linked to the book The Twits. We will be creating our own awful characters and describing them, then writing a letter to Mr and Mrs Twit, using different sentence types to give them advice about how to become healthier and more hygienic, as well as better, kinder human beings.
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In R.E, we will be thinking about Signs of Spring and connecting this to the Easter story.
In Science, we will be exploring how planting a bean facing different directions can impact how it grows and looking at the bulbs that we planted in the Autumn. Our focus will be on what plants need to grow well.
In our art work, we will be looking at printing linked to the work of Andy Warhol. This time adding colour to repeated images.
In our ICT work we are continuing our exploration of Robot Algorithims.
Our History, work will continue to be about The Great Fire Of London – looking at who did what and if more could have been done to stop the spread of the fire.
Our Music topic is still about pitch. We will also be continuing to learn and practise the songs that we will be singing at the singing festival in De Montfort Hall, after Easter. |
White Rose Maths
We mentioned during the Curriculum evening that our Maths scheme is remaining as WRM. There are lots of resources such as videos and activities to support your children with at home on their website. It is free to create a login.
Here is the link to sign up : www.whiterosemaths.com/#subscribe
Introducing Rocket Phonics
As part of the Oak Academy Trust, Woodland Grange Primary School are starting this academic year with a new Systematic Synthetic Phonics Programme. From Pre-school to Year 2 we will now be using Rocket Phonics to support our teaching of reading and writing instead of our previous scheme which followed Letters and Sounds alongside Jolly Phonics.
What is Rocket Phonics?
Systematic Synthetic Phonics is not new in schools. We have chosen to use Rocket Phonics as it combines the alphabetic code knowledge and skills that are needed to learn to read and write, with language-rich children’s literature. This approach will embed phonics in context, and support a love of reading and writing from the outset.
Reading in Year 2
What does this mean for you?
- We have a brand-new reading book scheme that works alongside the Rocket Phonics Programme to compliment our teaching in school.
- The Rocket Phonic books are designed to appeal to children who are starting to learn to read, as well as those who are becoming fluent readers.
- The books are a variety of fiction and non-fiction, written by phonics experts and children’s book writers.
- All of the books have been carefully levelled according to book banding and other criteria, to ensure gradual progression in difficulty.
- Foundation Stage pupils have a wide variety of new reading materials to send home, when they are ready.
- In KS1, year groups 1 and 2, we will endeavour to ensure that your child has an appropriate reading book that seamlessly matches their reading ability as a continuation of their reading progress.
Handwriting and spelling
- The children will be using new sound mats to support their letter and sound correspondences. There are 4 sound mats that will be available to download on the school website.
- We are currently updating our handwriting and letter formation teaching strategy. We know that many of you are keen to have these resources to support your child’s learning at home. We aim to upload these on to the school’s website as soon as they are available.
- In the first term of the academic year, each year group will hold a Curriculum Evening to explain their learning in more detail.
Dictation
We will be sending home a dictation for your child to learn every other Tuesday. It will be stuck into their Homework book. We will test the children on the dictation the next Tuesday ( the date is written on the dictation). When we test them at school we won't do the sentences in the same order, so it is a good idea to mix the sentence order up when practising at home. It will help with the children's spelling and also with their understanding of sentence writing and punctuation. It is a good idea to remind them where to put capital letters and full stops when writing out their dictation sentences to help them develop good habits in their writing. We will be giving out house points not only for correct spellings but for punctuation as well.
Each child has been given a dictation based on how they are doing with their spellings and phonics. We will be reviewing the dictation groups regularly and will adjust groups if we think that is the right thing to do based on how the children are getting on.
Take a look at our curriculum in action.
Vegetable Chilli
We made vegetable chilli. We had to follow a recipe, chop all the ingredients, measure out all the quantities then cook it in a big pan. Once it was ready we got to taste what we had made. It was delicious!
Great Fire of London
We learnt all about the Great Fire of London. We made model houses and created our own model of London from 1666 placing the buildings very close together. Then we recreated the Great Fire itself! It was very exciting to watch.
Christmas biscuits
We made cheesy Christmas biscuits. It was hard work making the dough. We had to weigh all the ingredients and follow the recipe carefully.
Grace Darling
We looked at the story of Grace Darling. Look at our amazing lighthouse pictures.
Castles
We learnt all about castles. We went on a trip to visit Warwick Castle, it was amazing! There were lots of steps to climb up Guy's Tower. It is 39 metres high! We watched the Trebuchet being fired and saw the birds of prey display. It was an amazing day.
Healthy Eating
We made healthy and unhealthy lunchboxes.