Welcome to Year 2's Class Page
Mrs S Campbell ~ Year Two Class Teacher
Miss K Sunter ~ Teaching Assistant
Welcome back! I hope you've all had a wonderful summer and are eager to start a new year in Year 2! I'm looking forward to having a productive and fun year with you all.
Writing
This half term our writing focus will be based around the traditional fairytale 'Little Red Riding Hood' and non-traditional takes on the story.
Maths
This half term in maths we will be learning about place value such as counting to 100 in 10's and partitioning numbers to 100. We will also be adding and subtracting 2-digit numbers.
PE
PE days are Monday and Thursday. Please ensure that your child comes to school in their PE kit on these days and have pumps available for indoor PE sessions. If your child wears earrings, please ensure they have tape to cover them or ideally, doesn't wear them on PE days.
Autumn 1
Topic Homework
Knowledge Organisers
These are used in lessons to help children learn key vocabulary and facts about topics. You could look at these together at home too.
Useful resources and websites to support this term's learning
BBC Bitesize - Guide to prefixes and suffixes
BBC Bitesize - Guide to KS1 Grammar
Click on the image below to find out more about what we will be learning in our maths lessons and how you can help at home.
Homework consists of working on TT Rockstars (children will receive their log in for this)
Spelling Shed - spelling practice (children will receive their log in for this)
These will be set for children weekly (on a Friday) to complete at home.
Reading to take place at home daily, ideally.
Children need to read 4 times over the whole week to count as Green Readers.
Their records must also be dated, commented in and signed by an adult on each of those days.
Reading
Your child should bring their reading book and green reading record in each day. They will read to an adult as often as possible in school and change their book as necessary.
Spelling
By the end of Year Two, children must be able to read and spell most of these common exception words:
Topic-based Optional Home Activities
Children are encouraged to continue building knowledge at home by having a go at these activities throughout this half term
Click here to visit the website!
Children's weekly games and activities will focus on Spelling, Punctuation and Grammar that we have been covering in class.
Colourful Semantics
Since the start of Spring term we have been using colourful semantics as an approach to teaching grammar gives students access to a rich set of tools for thinking about language. By providing a systematic analysis of the structures underlying sentences, we have been using coloured semantic resources to offer a clear explanation of why certain constructions occur together. Children have been learning to recognise common patterns in sentence construction and then discover how these patterns relate to real life situations. As well as helping pupils to become fluent communicators, this process teaches them important concepts such as:
- How words combine into phrases and clauses;
- What makes up a complete thought;
- How different types of word order affect meaning
We have been using 5 main colours for reminding children of the different word types and the 'job' that they do in sentences:
Nouns Verbs Adjectives Adverbs Conjunctions
Mastery in Maths
Mastering maths means children of all ages acquiring a deep, long-term, secure and adaptable understanding of the subject. The phrase ‘teaching for mastery’ describes the elements of our classroom practice and school organisation that combine to give pupils the best chances of mastering maths. Achieving mastery means acquiring a solid enough understanding of the maths that’s been taught to enable pupils to move on to more advanced material.
Although we cover new topics each half term, it is important to revisit and review prior learning regularly so that children can build on their learning.
Weekly homework will be linked to what we have been doing in class recently, but it is also beneficial for children to review previous topics regularly - why not use some of the stem Qs below and ask your child to teach you what they have been doing?
Please take some time to look through the booklets below with your child... if you have any questions about the methods or models and images that we have been using, please ask!
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| Y2-HL-Autumn-Block-1-Place-value-2020.pdf | Download |
It's important to keep home learning fun so you could play some games using these resources...
You could also do some practice questions together using these booklets...
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| Year 2 Arithmetic Activity Booklet.pdf | Download |
| Year 2 Grammar and Punctuation Activity Booklet.pdf | Download |
| Year 2 Reading Activity Booklet.pdf | Download |
| Year 2 Reasoning Activity Booklet Answers.pdf | Download |
| Year 2 Reasoning Activity Booklet.pdf | Download |
| Year 2 Spelling Activity Booklet.pdf | Download |
| Year 2 Spelling, Punctuation and Grammar Glossary for Parents.pdf | Download |
PE
P.E is on Monday and Wednesday (beginning Wednesday 7th September) .
Please can your child come into school wearing their PE kits on these days.
Please can I remind you that PE kits are:
Navy joggers /shorts if the weather is warm enough
Red T-shirt
Navy zip-up/hooded jacket
Plain black trainers
Autumn news will be added from September 2023...
