Year 2

Welcome to Year 2

Our teachers are Mrs Tinuoye (Sparrowhawks), Mr McKenzie (Woodpeckers), Ms Satheeskumar (Nightingales)

KS1 Support Staff: Mrs Miller, Miss Carter, Mrs Pricopi, Mrs Riley, Mrs Rashid

Phase Group Leader – Mrs McKenzie

We believe in providing our children with a broad and balanced curriculum to foster the requisite skills to equip them to undertake a programme of lifelong learning, which enables them to be part of and positively contribute to their communities and society,’ embodies the life and work of our school.

Reading

School planners are taken home and brought into school daily to support communication between school and home; therefore, messages are recorded about progress and books read. Children will be given a raffle ticket for reading three times weekly to be placed into the class half-termly book prize draw. Please read daily with your child and record this in the planner with progress comments.

We have three structured reading times weekly in groups, with children having a class library book daily and a library book to exchange every two weeks.

Homework and Home Learning

Homework contains phonics for correct pronunciation, reading and writing for literacy using correct structure and grammar. Maths content will follow the weekly learning to embed structure and strategy. Weekly Google Classroom will provide homework material alongside the weekly Literacy and Maths learning materials.

PE

Pupils require their PE kit in school on the following days:

  • Monday afternoons Sparrowhawks and Woodpeckers have P.E.
  • Tuesday mornings all Year 2 classes have P.E.
  • Thursday afternoons Nightingales have P.E.

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    Indoor kit: white t-shirt, black shorts, black plimsolls (these do not mark the hall floor)
    Outdoor kit: black or navy blue tracksuit top, white t-shirt, black jogging bottoms, suitable outdoor trainers

Children must have full indoor and outdoor P.E. kits in class, yet can be taken home to clean, especially at the end of each half-term.

Please add your child’s name on all kit, including footwear. Hair bands must be worn for those who have longer hair.

Jewellery is not to be worn.

Key Dates, Trips and Events

Enrichment opportunities in Year 2 have focused on the Fire of London with the London Fire Brigade,

Places of Worship; a scientific woodlands trail; a work week with construction companies visiting our school; First Aid training; and suitcase theatre.

We will inform parents closer to the time when educational experiences are scheduled and when volunteer support is required.

Assessments

Assessment in Year 2 will be ongoing and used to monitor pupils’ progress and identify areas where additional support or intervention may be required. Phonics assessment will take place continuously through lessons, reading activities and regular checks of pupils’ application of their phonics knowledge. Maths, writing and reading will be assessed termly.

How Parents Can Help at Home

Parents can support their child’s learning through short, regular practice at home. Reading together regularly helps children identify and blend digraphs, develop fluency and improve comprehension through questions about what they have read.

In Maths, practise number bonds to 10, number facts and times tables, as well as identifying tens and ones (e.g. 36 = 3 tens and 6 ones).

Please also practise handwriting using our Nelson Handwriting approach, focusing on correct letter formation, with ascending letters reaching the correct height and descending letters going below the line. Regular, consistent practice is key.

We also upload Literacy and Maths PowerPoints and other relevant lesson resources to Google Classroom regularly. This gives families an opportunity to support learning at home, whether a child is absent from school, learning remotely, or simply needs additional practice and consolidation.

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“my daughter is very happy in the school and I couldn't be happier. She is always talking positively about staff and what she's learning about. Thank you all!”
Year 2 Parent