Welcome to Year 2
One of the Year 2 team's main aims is to ensure that children have a smooth transition from Year 1 and develop greater independence in all areas of school life. The team set strong foundation for every child’s learning by providing a rich and stimulating curriculum that will ensure that children enjoy many new experiences.
Reading
We want to foster a love of reading in Year 2. Each teacher has carefully hand-picked books for their reading corners that they believe their pupils will enjoy. These include short texts, longer texts, poems, picture books and non-fiction texts. We have re-designed our reading corners to make them a more comfortable, inviting and calming space to read.
Every day, we have fruit and story time whereby teachers read their chosen class book to their pupils while they nibble on a healthy snack. This is our favourite part of the day! Pupils giggle, empathise and question character actors during this interactive session.
Every pupil in year two will have the opportunity to join their class reading challenge. We have selected 30 quality texts and if pupils can read them all by the end of the year, they will receive a special certificate in assembly. They will have a chance to change their reading challenge book weekly and will be expected to answer questions about the story to show that they have understood it.
Maths
Number fluency is a skill that we want to develop in year two so that our pupils can confidently and efficiently answer addition and subtraction questions. Each week, our pupils focus on a number and learn the number facts associated with that number, for example when looking at the number 5, they would learn that 1+4=5, 2+3=5, 3+2=5 etc.
We use the Numbots app on our school iPads, which helps pupils to visualise parts of a number and encourages them to remember their number bonds. In year two, we will be focusing on number bonds from 5 - 20. Each week, pupils will learn and be tested on number bonds for the number they are focusing on in class that week.
Reminders
Parent Reading Sessions – Please join us every Thursday morning between 8:50am - 9:10am. Reading regularly with your children helps to develop their love of reading! We look forward to hearing about all the books your child reads with you at home.
Homework – This is sent out on Fridays and usually consists of one Literacy or topic, one Maths and one spelling activity. Homework is due in on Mondays.
The team enjoys working closely with parents and kindly ask if any parents/carers have any concerns or worries, please don’t hesitate to arrange a time to speak to one of the team.
To view the Year 2 team this year, please take a look at our staff list.
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