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Year 2 2024 - 2025

Miss Millington

A very warm welcome to Year 2 and our team, myself - Miss Millington, and Mrs Cox and Mrs Callow, our fabulous Teaching Assistants.

The children had a fantastic start to the spring term and really embraced learning all about The Great Fire of London. We had a great trip to Nantiwch to learn about the great fire that happened there in 1583 and we made comparisons between the two. The children recalled some key dates and facts during the visit and this helped to consolidate everything that they had learnt over the last few weeks.

This half term, we will be exploring what it is like to live by the coast. The children will identify human and physical features of the coast and investigate how people use our local coastline. To tie in with this topic, in Literacy, we will read the book, A River by Marc Martin. This is a beautifuly written and illustrated book that follows a little girl on a journey through a river and out into the ocean, passing through lots of different places along the way. We will write setting desctiptions and use role play to help us really think about what it would be like to travel through each one.

In maths, we will be learning different forms of measurement including length, height, capacity and temperature. Relating measurement to real life situations will enable the children to learn vital skills that they wil need for tasks such as cooking and shopping. Alongside this, we will continue to secure our knowledge of the 2, 5 and 10 times tables which is paramount for helping us to solve number and word problems relating to these units. There are plenty of online songs and games to support the learning of times tables and we encourage the children to work on them at home each week.

You will find our class timetable in a link at the bottom of the page.

Important information:

Tuesday

Indoor PE - kit to remain in school:

T-Shirt (Red or White)

Shorts (Black)

Joggers (Black)

School jumper/fleece (can be with or without school logo. No branded sportswear/hoodies/football kit)

Plimsolls/Pumps

Thursday

Outdoor PE - kit to be brought in each week:

Plain white/red t-shirt, jumper (school jumper or Dean Valley fleece) and black tracksuit trousers are required for winter outdoor Games Lessons.

Trainers

Reading books changed

Friday

Online homework to be completed
Forest school - 28.02.25 and 21.03.25

Homework

TT Rockstars - I advise 7 games a week, 1 per day or in a chunk. Key focus for Year 2 are the 2s, 5s, and 10s - use the Jammin feature and explore the settings, you can set to just multiplication.

Numbots - aim for 10mins across the week either in one session or a split throughout the week.

Spelling Shed - 7 games to be completed per week on the focus spelling of the week - start on easy and progress if you feel your child is confident with this.

Spellings - sent home on a Monday ready for our spelling test on a Friday.

*Online homework to be set each Friday and completed for the following Friday. If you have any problem logging in, please let me know.

Useful information:

Spelling

Children are learning their Year 1 and 2 Common Exception Words as well as the red words from their RWI group.

t-l-54347-common-exception-words-years-1-and-2-alphabetical-word-mat-english.pdf (twinkl.co.uk)

We also use the high frequency words:

t-l-5995-200-high-frequency-words-word-mat_ver_3.pdf (twinkl.co.uk)

Spelling techniques:

t-l-52830-strategies-for-learning-spellings-activity-sheet_ver_1.pdf (twinkl.co.uk)

Useful spelling games: Yr 2 common exception words - Teaching resources (wordwall.net)

Reading