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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. 

Click here to open the presentation for our curriculum evening.

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. 

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. 

25.11.24

It's Decorations Day on Friday! We are looking forward to seeing as many parents as possible coming in to join us, in the morning, making a range of different decorations. Get ready to get into the festive spirit!

Maths	Literacy	Other
It’s an assessment week this week, so we will be completing work to check on our arithmetic skills and our reasoning and problem-solving skills.   Next week we will be continuing with our shape work.   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 suffixes, starting with how we add es for verbs ending in y and replacing the y with an i e.g. copy – copies, try – tries, worry – worries, dry-dries. We will then move onto nouns ending y and adding the suffix es to them, but also exchanging the y for an i e.g. lady – ladies, party – parties, diary – diaries, story- stories.   We are finishing off our writing work through our Design and Technology project this week. We will be making a savoury muffin and writing an evaluation of what we made. We will also be explaining why we liked or didn’t like them, using conjunctions to extend our sentences, as well as thinking about what we would change, if anything, and why. We will also be completing reading assessments this week which will focus on comprehension skills. Alongside that we will be assessing grammar, punctuation and spelling skills.	In R. E, we are changing our topic to thinking about why Christmas is important to Christians for the rest of this term. We will be starting by looking to understand why this festival has so much meaning and importance for people of the Christian faith.   In I.C.T, we will be looking at Digital Photography. We will be exploring the impact of using light and focus when taking a photograph.  In Music, we are continuing our work on using the voice as an instrument and developing our singing skills. In Geography, the focus for this topic is Villages, Towns and Cities. This week we are looking at the features of Oadby and identifying what makes it a town. As part of our Design and Technology work, we will be making our savoury muffins and putting all the cooking and food preparations skills that we have learnt to good use. It is Decorations Day on Friday, so we will be using a range of art skills to make a variety of different decorations.

 

2.12.24

Thank you to all those parents who came in on Decorations Day. We really appreciated your help and hope you had fun. 

We are delighted that Mrs Matthews will be returning to work this week, teaching in Mrs Chadwick's class on Wednesday, Thursday and Friday morning. 

Maths	Literacy	Other
We are continuing our work on shapes this week.  We will be exploring the features of 2D shapes (corners/vertices and edges) and using this knowledge to draw them. We will then be looking at understanding what a line of symmetry is and identifying whether shapes are symmetrical or not. We will also be completing shapes using lines of symmetry.   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 the phoneme or as or/au e.g. autumn, morning then or as aw e.g. saw, yawning then or as al e.g. ball, walk then or as ar/a e.g. water, quartz, warned.   We are focusing on poetry this week and repeating patterns in it. The topic for our poetry is fire. We will be using repeating patterns to continue poems, planning a poem using repeating patterns, alliteration and conjunctions, then writing our own poem using the plan. Finally, we will be reciting our poems.             .	In P.S.H.E, we will be starting a new topic called Safety First. To start with we will be identifying how to stay safe and who to ask for help if needed. We will be talking about the importance of knowing when to say ‘yes’, ‘no’ ‘I’ll ask’ and ‘I’ll tell’ as well as knowing that we do not need to keep secrets. In Science, we are starting a new topic called Growing Up. In the first lesson we will be exploring the question ‘How do animals change as they grow?’. We will be grouping and classifying animals, then looking at the life cycles of different animals/insects. In ICT, we will be looking at Digital Photography. We will be looking at how photographs can be changed and how to use simple editing tools. In Music we are continuing our work on using the voice as an instrument and developing our singing skills. In Geography, the focus for this topic is Villages, Towns and Cities. This week we are looking at cities. We will be identifying the features of cities. In Art, we will be continuing the work we have started based on the work of Christopher Gryder. We will be making our final designs based on what we have done already so that we are able to make our clay tiles in the next session.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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.