Welcome To Year 2
Hello and Welcome to Year 2. On this page you will find information relating to your child’s year group. We will update this information regularly with what we have all been doing in Year 2.
The Teaching Staff in year 2 are:
Miss Thompson – Year 2 teacher
Mr Andrews – Year 2 teacher
Miss Evans – Teaching Assistant
Miss Evans
Topics we are learning about this term
Our theme for this half term is Technology Through Time.
- In history we will be learning about civil rights activists like Nelson Mandela and Rosa Parks.
- In science, we will be studying plants.
- In English we will be writing adventure stories and instructions, as well as exploring poetry.
- In art, we will be studying African landscapes.
- In DT, we will be evaluating, designing and making fruit boxes.
- Our guided reading texts are Nelson Mandela, Africa and Spider Weaver.
- In maths, we will be focusing on reasoning, fractions and written methods for the four rules of number.
- In geography, we will be studying the worlds 5 oceans and all of its continents, focusing on Africa.
Useful Information
Useful Information
Start Time – 8:40am Finish Time – 3:20pm
PE
The children are able to wear their PE clothes to school on PE days. PE Kit is a Bankfields Blue PE T-Shirt, jogging bottoms, leggings or shorts and trainers. Please ensure that your child has suitable clothing for outdoor PE sessions, as we will be utilising the outdoor space as much as we possibly can. Our PE sessions will take place with Mr Andrews on a Monday afternoon.
Year 2 will be swimming each day from the 23rd September until the 4th October.
Online Learning
Children will continue to have access to our specialised online learning platforms at home such as Seesaw, TT Rockstars, AR and Purple Mash. We will remind all children of all their login details in school if required.
Homework
Reading/phonics homework and maths homework is given out on a Monday to be returned by the following Friday. We set homework on Seesaw so if you have any problems accessing this, please let us know and we will support you to access it. If you cannot use Seesaw, we will provide you with paper copies of the homework.
Reading
Your child will bring home a reading book every Monday to be returned on a Friday. We ask that you read with your child a minimum of 3 times per week. We are allowing you to keep the same book all week to enable you to read the book more than once, to discuss the themes in the book and to ask questions about the text. This will enhance your child’s reading progress.
Your child will either come home with a Sounds Write reading book or an Accelerated Reader reading book. If you child brings home an Accelerated Reader book, they need to complete a quiz online to ensure they have understood the text. You can access the quizzes using this link:
https://global-zone61.renaissance-go.com/welcomeportal/2234217
The children are aware of their logins. Everytime you read with your child, please can you sign the yellow reading record and write down the page number.
Take a look at what we have been up to in Year 2!
