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 29^th  April 2024

Remember it is our Colour Dash event on Friday. We are asking children to come to school in old clothes that they don't mind getting paint on. If they want to, they can bring a change of clothes for after the event. We are really looking forward to doing this, getting covered in a rainbow of colour and raising money whilst we're doing it.

 

Maths	Literacy	Other
In Maths, we are carrying on our work about Fractions. We will be working on recognising and finding thirds by sharing them into 3 equal groups or parts. Then we will be looking at finding a whole that has been divided into fractions e.g. 6 is the whole, 3 is half of 6. 8 is the whole, 4 is half of 8.     After that we will be looking at unit fractions. These are fractions that have a 1 at the top or as the numerator e.g. ½ or ¼. Have a look at this website to practise your fractions knowledge. What are fractions? | BBC Bitesize - BBC Bitesize	Phonics – we will be looking at the phoneme l as l e.g. look, lollipop, safely, smiled, then l as ll e.g. follow, swell, hilltop, will, then ul as le/il e.g. April, middle, angle, terrible and finally, ul as al/el e.g. general, squirrel, petal and natural.   In Literacy, we will be finishing our work based on the book The Journey Home by Frann Preston Gannon. We will be using the research done as homework about endangered animals to write a plan for our own version of the story. We will be creating a story map to get our ideas down on paper and then using this when we write it over a couple of days.  We will be checking if our work is the best it can be by editing it and reading it through to ensure that it makes sense. We will then be practising writing persuasively about saving the endangered animals.	In R.E, we will be looking at the idea of eggs and new life, then connect this to the Christian belief of Jesus’s resurrection.     In Science, we will be continuing our work on gardening and plants, called The Apprentice Gardener. We will be looking at what happens when a seed germinates. We will be observing and describing what happens when a seed or bulb grows into a mature plant.   In our art work, we will be working on our topic based on the artist Sean Briggs. We will be using different kinds of lines to create an effect.   In Music, we will be carrying on our work about Pitch. In ICT, we will be carrying on our topic about Data and Information. To begin with, we will look at how to collect and organise data and put it into a tally chart, linking it to work we have done in Science and Maths. In Geography, we will be carrying on our topic about Hot and Cold Places.  This week we will be looking at how cactuses survive in such hot places. On Friday afternoon, we will be taking part in the Colour Dash event – remember to wear your old clothes and bring a change of clothes to wear afterwards, if you want to.

 

Week beginning 6^th May 2024

We are going to try again with our Colour Dash event this week. This time it will be on Thursday afternoon, so don't forget to wear your old clothes ready for the event and, if you want to, bring clothes to change into afterwards. 

Mrs Chadwick and Mrs Sabir's class have a Forest School session with Miss Rose on Tuesday morning , so remember to wear your outdoor clothes for this. 

Maths	Literacy	Other
In Maths, we are continuing on our work about Fractions. We will be working on recognising non unit fractions – those that have a number other than 1 at the top as the numerator e.g. 3/4 , 2/3, 2/4. We will then move onto recognising ¾ of a shape or number. After that we will focus on recognising equivalent fractions e.g. 2/4 = ½ .       Have a look at this website to practise your fractions knowledge. What are fractions? | BBC Bitesize - BBC Bitesize	Phonics – we will be looking possessive apostrophes to show that something belongs to someone e.g. Aron’s bag, Nil’s plimsolls, Jack’s water bottle, the teachers’ cars. We will then look at adding ing to a single syllable word that has a vowel then a single consonant e.g. run – running, hum – humming, then adding the suffix ed to single syllable word that has a vowel then a single consonant e.g. tap- tapped, nod – nodded, hop – hopped, noticing that we double the consonant in the middle of the word. In Literacy, we will be writing our 500 word story for the Oak Trust competition using the story maps that we did as homework. We will also be editing our work to make it the best it can be.	In P.S.H.E, we will be carrying on our work about Health and Wellbeing. This week it will focus on making choices relating to keeping ourselves physically and emotionally healthy and to understand that choices we make can have good and not so good consequences.  We will be using the book How to be a lion in an Everyone’s Welcome session this week. We will be working on understanding how to believe in yourself and to have self-confidence. We will also be appreciating what it is that makes us different from each other. In Science, we will be continuing our work on gardening and plants called The Apprentice Gardener. We will be looking at what has happened to the beans that we planted and the effect different ways of planting have had on the plants. In our art work, we will be working on our topic based on the artist Sean Briggs. This week we will try out using charcoal when completing our observational drawings of sheep. In Music, we will be starting our new topic about Technology, Form and Structure. Our first session will involve listening to a variety of different kinds of live and recorded music and making observations about them.  In Geography, we will be carrying on our topic about Hot and Cold Places. This week we will be looking at the differences and similarities between hot and cold places and identifying what it is like in these environments. Fingers crossed, on Thursday afternoon, we will be taking part in the Colour Dash event – remember to wear your old clothes and bring a change of clothes to wear afterwards, if you want to.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

          

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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.