Welcome to Year 2

Teachers: Mrs Ingham and Mrs Hampson

Welcome to the Autumn Term!

 Mrs Ingham and Mrs Hampson are extremely proud of how all of the children have settled into their new Year 2 classes.

English - In English, we are going to be exploring the Colour Monster as our first shared text. We will be thinking about feelings linked to the different colours. As part of our writing we will be developing our use of adjectives within sentences and embedding our use of capital letters and full stops.

We will then be moving on to explore books about the Africa which will be linked to our new Geography topic. We will be exploring different texts; including fiction, non-fiction and poetry and we will be writing for a range of purposes. We will be consolidating our use of punctuation within sentences- capital letters, full stops and introducing commas. We will also be continuing to use and apply known spelling rules within our independent writing.

Reading – We read in Year 2 EVERY day. This includes through guided reading, phonics activities and also by individual reading. Now that the children are in Year 2, we will also be furthering our reading for understanding and meaning. There will be additional focus on developing our comprehension skills.

Please continue to read with your child at home as often as you can. You can use your child’s reading diary as a method of communication with us about how your child is reading at home. The ‘Reading at home’ sheet is full of ideas of activities and questions that you can ask your child when reading at home. If you would like any help with this please ask a member of our team. Your child will read with an adult twice a week in school and these days will be written into your child's reading diary. 

Maths – In Maths, we will be looking at Place Value ensuring that the children have a deepened understanding of the value of digits in numbers up to 100. We will be continuing to count forwards and backwards in 2s, 5s and 10s which will lead into us introducing multiplication.

Please keep up with Numbots. Your child can access these from home. If you require your child's log in details, please let a member of Year 2 staff know.

Science – This half term we will be exploring 'Animals Including Humans'. We will be noticing that animals, including humans, have offspring which grow into adults. We will be finding out about and describing the basic needs of animals, including humans, for survival (water, food and air). We will be escribing the importance for humans of exercise, eating the right amounts of different
types of food, and hygiene.

Topic -  This term in Geography, we will be learning all about the world that we live in. We will be using atlases and gloves to explore and investigate the 7 continents and 5 oceans of the world.

PE- Please remember to bring your PE kit (black shorts, white t-shirt and black pumps; all named) for each lesson. You can leave your PE kit on your peg if you prefer. 

2H PE day will be on a Thursday.

2I PE day will be on a Friday.

 

Reminders:

  • Please remember to send your child to school with a water bottle daily.
  • Please can all children bring a coat to school each day as it is starting to get colder.
  • Please can your child bring their reading book to school daily even if it is not their day to read with an adult in school.
  • Homework and spellings will be given out and returned to school on a Friday. Your child will bring their homework home in their folder and their spellings will be stuck into their orange spellings book.
  • Please can children bring their PE kit into school on a Thursday (2H) and a Friday (2I). Your child can leave their PE kit on their peg. 
  • If you have any questions or queries you can contact the school office to arrange an appointment with your class teacher.

Thank you for your continued support.