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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 Tuesday. Please make sure earrings and any other jewellery are taken off on those days for safety purposes. Don't forget we need to have Indoor and Outdoor P.E kits in school all week so please bring them into school on Monday and we will send them home on Fridays. 

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. 

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For the 'Parents Guide to Reading with your Child' please click here.

 

 

Both Year 2 classes will be doing Indoor P.E on Mondays. Both classes will be doing Outdoor P.E on Tuesdays, so remember to take any jewellery off for those days and make sure that P.E kits are in school from Monday. We will send home P.E kits on Fridays to be washed. Children will change into their kits in school so please make sure that every item of kit is clearly named. 

We will be checking reading 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. We will be doing Guided Reading every other week, so, we will check reading diaries on Tuesdays those weeks to see if reading books need changing. 

Don't forget to send in choosing books to change on a Tuesday and library books to change on a Friday.

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. 

 

As the weather is cooling down and becoming wetter, please make sure that your child has a named coat in school, as we will be going outside during break and lunchtime. 

 

 11.11.24

Maths	Literacy	Other
This week we are finishing our topic about addition and subtraction. We slowed down the pace of our work last week to revisit some elements that were tricky, so we are going to do some elements that were mentioned last week. We will be comparing number sentences using the greater than or less than symbols e.g. 23 + 10 > 40 - 26 We will also be looking at how to answer mixed and missing number sentences using partitioning and equipment e.g. dienes. We will then revisit and secure our understanding of how tackle subtraction sentences that cross a 10, looking at exchanging to do so. Finally, we will be completing an end of block assessment.   There are some useful video clips to support understanding on the websites below Year 2 Adding and subtracting - Year 2 Maths - BBC Bitesize   Add and subtract 2-digit and 1-digit numbers - Maths - Learning with BBC Bitesize   Subtraction using dienes and exchanging Bing Videos Eimars online classroom.	Phonics – this week we will be focusing on the phoneme short oo as oo e.g. football, took then oo as oul/u e.g. couldn’t, would, push, pudding then ar as ar e.g. car, artist, sharpened and finally ar as a/al e.g. father, calm, half.   We are completing our writing work through our Design and Technology project this week. We will be working towards making a savoury muffin. We will start by writing sentences describing and evaluating different ingredients, then think about the what we would choose to put in our own version of a savoury muffin. We will then focus on understanding where some of our food comes from sorting it into groups of plant or animal. We will then explore the use of different tools for food preparation and then match them to the correct ingredient.	In our Science work, we will carrying on the topic called Changing Materials. This week we are looking at which material is fit for which purpose, matching the material to the object it is best suited to. . In R.E, we are looking at how Muslims use stories about the prophet to guide their beliefs and actions.    In ICT, we will be looking at Digital Photography. We will be exploring the difference between landscape and portrait in photography and why photographers might choose each one. (This lesson didn’t get completed last week).   In Geography, the focus for this topic is Villages, Towns and Cities. This week we are learning about the differences between a town and a village building on the knowledge of the features of a village.   In Art we will be carrying on our block of work being inspired by the artist Christopher Gryder. He makes artwork using clay. This week we will focusing on joining details to malleable materials and the importance of scoring the surfaces first.

 

18.11.24

This week we will be starting our fortnightly spelling tests. The list of spellings were sent home last week in homework books.

We have had to change the day of our Indoor P.E slot, so we will now be doing Indoor P.E. on Thursdays, not Mondays. 

Mrs Sabir went on maternity leave at the end of last week, so for the next 2 weeks Mrs Chadwick's class will be taught by Mr Parker on Wednesday and Thursday. Mrs Matthews will then return from her maternity leave to become the job share in the class from 4th December. 

Maths	Literacy	Other
This week our Maths focus has changed to shape. We will be naming 2D shapes, counting sides and vertices (corners) and understanding the features of each shape.   This website has some information and activities that support this learning. What are 2D shapes? - BBC Bitesize	Phonics – this week we will be focusing on how to use possessive apostrophes to show that something belongs to someone else e.g. grandpa’s/ Dylan’s/ teacher’s/ Sophie’s.   We are continuing to complete our writing work through our Design and Technology project this week. We will be working towards making a savoury muffin. This week we will be designing a well-balanced meal and looking at the Eatwell plate. We will then be taste testing some savoury muffins to evaluate them and write about why we liked or didn’t like different examples. Following on from this, we will be practising using tools for food preparation and finally, designing our own savoury muffins using what we know, identifying which tools we would need for each ingredient and recording it using a recipe style format.	In our Science work, we will be carrying on the topic called Changing Materials. This week we are exploring what pushes and pulls are and investigating why plasticene is fit for purpose and what problem it solved. In P.S.H.E., we are thinking about the environment and how important it is to look after it. We are also looking at understanding what natural resources are.  In ICT, we will be looking at Digital Photography. We will be looking at what makes a good photograph. In Geography, the focus for this topic is Villages, Towns and Cities. This week we are looking at towns and comparing them to villages, identifying their features and what the inputs and outputs are of a town. In Art we will be carrying on our block of work being inspired by the artist Christopher Gryder. He makes artwork using clay. This week we will be designing a tile that uses the skills we have been practising.

 

 

 

 

 

 

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.