Leicestershire Libraries have launched their Summer Reading Challenge for 2024. This year is all about getting CREATIVE. Music, junk-modelling, photography, dancing, story-writing...the possibilities are endless. The Challenge is for children aged 4-12 (although there is a mini Under-4s Challenge too!). Join the Marvellous Makers in Leicestershire Libraries from 6 July to 7 September.

• Go to your library this summer to sign up and get your Marvellous Makers collector’s foldout poster!
• Read books and collect stickers and other rewards for your reading (watch out for the smelly stickers!)
• In Leicestershire Libraries, we encourage children to read 6 books and visit their local library 3 times. At the end, you will receive a certificate with your name on and a medal. Remember, you can read ANYTHING.
• Reading together counts too. It could be a chapter book, picture book, comic, graphic novel, fact book, eBook or audiobook.

There are events on at local libraries throughout the summer too.

For more information click here.

 

 

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 Thursday. Please make sure earrings and any other jewellery are taken off on those days for safety purposes. 

Click here to open a plan for the year.

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.

 

Don't forget we need to have Indoor and Outdoor P.E kits in school all week. 

 

Both Year 2 classes will be doing Indoor P.E on Mondays. Both classes will be doing Outdoor P.E on Thursdays, 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. 

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. 

       

Week Beginning 1st July 2024

 

Mrs Chadwick/Mrs Sabir's class have Forest School on Wednesday 3rd July in the morning. Mrs Suleman's class have it on Wednesday 3rd July in the afternoon and on Friday 5th July in the afternoon this week. Don't forget to wear the right clothes for being outside. 

The school is closed for voting on Thursday 4th July.

Week beginning 1^st July 2024

Maths	Literacy	Other
In Maths, we are carrying on our work about statistics and data. We will be covering drawing pictograms and then interpreting them. We will first look at those have a, 1 picture = 1 object, ratio then move onto being able to interpret those that have different ratios e.g. 1 picture = 2 objects.               .	Phonics – we will be looking at the suffixes ment, ness and ful and practising adding them to rules whilst understanding the rules about doing so e.g. enjoy becomes enjoyment, happy becomes happiness, thought becomes thoughtful. We will be focusing on how we need to change a ‘y’ to an’ i’ before adding the suffix ness, when the root word ends in a ‘y’. We will be continuing this week with our work on our Design and Technology topic as we had to squeeze some extra things in last week. As part of that we will be labelling our diagrams to explain our designs and explaining the decisions that we have made using conjunctions to extend our sentences.	In Science, we will be thinking about what different animals eat in their habitats. In History, we will be carrying on with our topic about Significant Explorers focusing Ibn Battuta. We will be looking at where he explored and finding those places on a map to look at the journeys he took. In Design and Technology, we will be practising the joining techniques we have explored for use with fabric and trying out running stitch. We will then create a design and make our own glove puppet. We can’t wait to see them when they are finished.

 

 

Week beginning 8th July 

Mrs Chadwick's and Mrs Sabir's class have Forest School on Monday 8th July, in the morning, to make up for one of the missed sessions we had earlier in the term. Don't forget to wear your clothes for being outside.

Week beginning 8^th July 2024

This week we are going to be completing our All About Me booklets to hand on to the next teacher but also to compare to the booklet that we filled in at the start of Year 2. I wonder if how much we have changed. The children will be spending time in their new classes with the Year 3 teachers on Monday afternoon and Tuesday morning. Remember to go to your Year 3 class on Tuesday morning. We will be completing our phonics work and finishing our final booklet. There are some other things planned for Wednesday and then, on Thursday, the children are allowed to bring a toy from home to share with their friends. Please make sure that they are not very precious toys or electrical ones. Please can each child bring in a named, plastic bag on Wednesday so that they can bring their things home from school? Thank you.  We have kept reading diaries and reading books in school to pass onto the Year 3 staff and if you have any library books or choosing books at home still, they also need returning to school. Finally, we would just like to say a huge thank you for all the support you have provided this year. We will really miss having your lovely children in our classes next year and hope that you have a wonderful summer.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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.