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Welcome to our Year 2 page.

We will keep this page updated with key news and information on our curriculum.

Both classes will be doing Indoor P.E on Thursdays. 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. 

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.

We are finally getting some warmer weather, which means the children want to take their coats and jumpers off. We have already had a few children who have lost their cardigans or jumpers. Please can you ensure that your child’s name is clearly labelled on them. Therefore, if it gets lost, hopefully it will make its way back to you. Please also check the lost and found, which is at the bottom of the Year 2 steps.

 

 

Week commencing 16.06.25

This week is sports day on Wednesday 1.45pm. We would love for you to come along and support your child. Please send your child to school in their PE kit that day.

We are going on our trip Wednesday 25th June (Mrs Pearce's class) and Monday 30th June (Mrs Chadwick/Mrs Matthews class). Please return your slip to your class teacher and pay on Arbor. If you are able to help, please let your child's class teacher know. 

 

Maths	Literacy / Phonics	Other
We have now started our next unit of time. If you would like to refresh your child’s memory on time please click the link below. Time - KS1 Maths - BBC Bitesize   This week the children will be looking at quarter past and quarter to, tell time past the hour and tell time to the hour.	We will  be starting a new text this week, The Bog Baby. We will be exploring our inference and prediction skills, designing our own creature, using descriptive writing to help set the scene and planning our own version of the story. In phonics, we will be revisiting; Ch as ch e.g. chest, armchair, checked, each. ch as tch e.g. patchwork, sketch, match, switch ch+u as ture e.g. picture, adventure, creatures, nature.	In History, we are starting an exciting new topic on Significant Explorers and more specifically looking at Captain Scott. In Science, we are starting a new unit based on Habitats. This week the children will be exploring what lives in trees. Mrs Pearce’s class will be taking part in net and wall activities. Mrs Chadwick/Mrs Matthews class will be starting Forest School on Thursday mornings. In Music, the unit is technology, form and structure. This week the children will be learning about changing and combining sounds through technology. In RE, Mrs Pearce’s class will be learning about forgiveness in Christianity. In Art, the children will be learning about the artist Ben Giles. This week, the children will create your own collage using a photo of a person and some pictures of natural objects.   This week is also our sports day!!!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Week Commencing 23.06.25

This week Mrs Pearce’s class will be going on their trip on Wednesday. Please ensure your child is dressed in their school uniform and appropriately for the weather – raincoat, sun cream/sun hat etc. We will be outside all day. Please ensure they have a healthy packed lunch (with no nuts) and a water bottle. Mrs Chadwick/Mrs Matthews class will be going on Monday 30^th June.

Maths	Literacy / Phonics	Other
We have now started our next unit of time. If you would like to refresh your child’s memory on time please click the link below. Time - KS1 Maths - BBC Bitesize  This week the children will be looking at tell the time to 5 minutes, minutes in an hour and hours in a day.	We will  be continuing to look at the  text, The Bog Baby. We have been planning a story, so this week the children will be writing their own adventure story. In phonics, we will be revisiting; sh as sh e.g. shell, shore, shimmering, shapes sh as ch e.g. brochure, parachute, crochet, machines. sh as ti/ci e.g. optician, delicious, direction, magician. /sh/ as ssi e.g. passion, impression, expression, discussion	In History, we are starting an exciting new topic on Significant Explorers and writing a factfile about Sir Ernest Shackleton. In Science, we are starting a new unit based on Habitats. This week the children will be exploring what animals live in grassy habitats. Mrs Pearce’s class will be taking part in net and wall activities. Mrs Chadwick/Mrs Matthew's class will be starting Forest School on Thursday mornings. In Music, we will be starting a new unit on 21st century music.   This week in PSHE, we will be looking at making good choices and considering the impact of choices. In Art, the children will be learning about the artist Ben Giles. This week, the children will be creating their snowy, landscape collage. We will be starting our Design and Technology project of making a finger puppet. The children will first evaluate a range of puppets and then make a finger puppet using paper.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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 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.