Year 2 - Ash & Elm Classes

Year 2

Class Information

Elm Class Teacher- Mrs S Steele

Ash Class Teachers-Miss J Millard and Mrs B Wright

                 LSA - Mrs E Garland

Reading

On a Friday, children will change their reading books with their class teacher. Within Key Stage 1, children receive one or two reading book/s each week, matched to their correct phonic phase.

If your child finishes reading their book during the week, please encourage them to reread it. Re-reading books improves children's fluency and understanding of the text that they have read. You can also check your child’s understanding by asking them questions.

Class Timetable

 Ash Class Timetable Term 6

Elm Class Timetable Term 6 

Year 2 Recommended Reads

Please look at these fantastic books that have been hand picked to appeal to the children in year 2!

Year 2 Recommended Reads List

 Water bottles/Snack

We encourage all our children to bring in a class water bottle, that is separate from their lunch box, so that they can drink water when they need it.

Please also ensure that your child brings in a healthy snack (named) for morning break.

PE kit

Within Year 2, both classes have PE on a Monday and Thursday afternoon.  We are now asking for all children to bring their PE kits into school, in a named bag, so that they can get changed before/after their lesson.  School PE kit should comprise of black shorts/jogging bottoms, a plain or logoed school t-shirt, blue/black sweatshirt (not a hoody) and plain black daps/trainers.  Please ensure if your child’s shoes have laces, they are able to do up their laces independently. 

Home learning

Reading

Listening to your child read regularly at home is vitally important in helping them to practice and master their ability to read fluently.  We ask that all our families listen to their child read 3 times a week as a minimum. We also encourage as many opportunities for you to share stories together modelling expression and fluency.  This can be from a range of text types, such as information books, recipe books, instructions and newspapers. 

Maths:

Your child will have access to an online numeracy homework pack which you are welcome to use if you wish. This learning pack will link with class work and help embed key mathematical concepts. 

 O'clock, half past and quarter to worksheets

Draw-the-Times-Quarter-Past-and-Quarter-To-Activity-Sheet.

Telling-the-time-in-five-minute-intervals

 Please follow this link to help your child practice their number bonds to 10.  There are other fun games on this website too!

https://www.topmarks.co.uk/maths-games/hit-the-button

We have a subscriptions to Times Table Rockstars which is a vital tool to help your child learn their Times Table facts. Each child in Year 2 is given a log on in Term 3 to coincide with our Multiplication and Division Unit in Maths. Here is a link that takes you to the TTRS website.

Please speak to your child's class teacher if you have misplaced the log in details.

https://ttrockstars.com/ 

 Spellings:

If you would like to complete any additional spelling practice with your children, please find below the spelling rules with example words that we will be covering this term.

 Year 2 Term 6 Spellings

 We learn spellings in lots of different ways to appeal to all children. See below for some fun ideas on how to learn difficult words.

Year 2 CEW (Common Exception Words)

 All Year 2 children are expected to be able to read and spell this list of words by the end of the school year.

Learning spellings can actually be an activity that is fun!!!

Some of the techniques we use in school are:

- Pyramid words

a

af

aft

afte

after

- Rainbow words

again

- Mnemonics

because = big elephants can't use small exits

Have fun with this and create some crazy ways of remembering spellings!

Year 2 Common Exception Words

 Coming into school/Communication:

 Please don’t hesitate to speak to a member of the Year 2 team if you have any queries, questions or to share anything that you feel is important for us to know.

You may also contact us via email:

Elm Class   elm@stnicholaschantryschool.org.uk

Ash Class   ash@stnicholaschantryschool.org.uk

Parent Helpers

We are delighted to be able to welcome parent helpers back into school.  Please speak to the office if you would like to do this.  All helpers will be required to carry out a DBS check and have a meeting with Ms O'Reilly. You would not be working within your child's class.

Learning Focus

These are the topics we will be covering over the academic year within Year 2.

Term 1 – Amazing Australia

Term 2 – The Great Fire of London

Terms 3 – Extreme Weather

Term 4 - Where and who am I?

Term 5 - On our doorstep

Term 6 - Ingenious Inventions 

 Handwriting in Year 2

We follow the Twinkl journey to cursive handwriting scheme in Year 2. This prepares the children to progress to cursive handwriting at the end of the year ready for Year 3.

Here is an example of the letter formation we use:

If you would like to practice handwriting with your child, here is an optional home learning booklet to help you.

Optional handwriting Practice Booklet   

 Term 6 Overview