Welcome to Year 2!

Each week we'll be keeping you up to date with our weekly blog. In addition to this, please read our half-termly curriculum map to find out what will be happening in Year 2. 

Important information

PE - Tuesday and Thursday. Please come to school in your PE kit on these days and these days only. 

Books - Change books on Friday. Your child will come home with a new reading book linked to their phonics sessions that week and a library book every Friday. We will also set an e-book on Oxford Owl. Please read these too, but there is no expectation to complete the quizzes. Please make sure you have been reading at home at least three times a week. Please record any reading you have done in your reading diary. Your reading diary must always be in your book bag so that we can read with you in school. 

Spellings/RWI - New spellings will be sent home every Friday. Please make sure your child's reading record is in their book bag on a Friday so that the new ones can be stuck in.  Please also see our spelling page, where you can easily access this every week. We will try to put your child's score in their reading record after their test so you can see their progress.

Year Two End of Year Expectations

This table provides information for parents and carers on the end of year expectations for children in our school. All the objectives will be worked on throughout the year and will be the focus of teaching. Any extra support you can provide in helping your children to achieve this is greatly valued. If you have any queries regarding the content of this booklet, please talk to your child’s teacher.

 

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BLOG

 

Autumn 1

Week 6

This week in Year 2, we have worked our socks off! 🧦 We’ve been busy learning lots of new grammar skills to help us with our upcoming fact-file writing, which we’ll be planning next week. In maths, we’ve been focusing on adding across 10, and we’ll soon be moving on to subtracting across 10s—what brilliant mathematicians we are becoming! We also had a fantastic time celebrating Yellow Day, dressing up and spreading positivity throughout the school. 🌟 To top it all off, we were incredibly lucky to have a special session with the Leeds Diving Team, who helped us perfect our gymnastics skills and even tested to see if any of us could be part of the next generation of Leeds divers! What a super, action-packed week it has been in Year 2!

Week 5

This week in school, we have started our new maths block all about addition and subtraction. The children have been working hard to use different strategies to solve problems and explain their thinking. In science, we have explored the stretchiness of materials, measuring how far different materials can or cannot stretch — it was lots of fun making predictions and testing them out! In writing, we have begun a new piece linked to our history topic. We are learning how to write a fact file all about how schools have changed over time. The children loved looking at old photos of our own school and enjoyed talking about the similarities and differences between school life then and now.

Week 4 

This week in school we have been very busy and working hard to get our writing finished! We have completed our own narratives based on an alternative version of The Three Little Pigs and the children have shown great imagination in their stories. In maths, we have been comparing numbers, ordering objects, and practising counting in 2s, 5s and 10s — as well as challenging ourselves to count in 3s! We are now in the full swing of our handwriting practice, as this is a key focus in Year 2, and our book presentation is improving every day. Well done, everyone, for another fantastic week of learning!

Week 3

This week in Year 2 we’ve enjoyed a wide variety of lessons! In maths, we have been learning about numbers on a number line — estimating, placing and counting up in 10s and 1s all the way to 100. In English, we have been planning our own alternative version of The Three Little Pigs story, ready to write next week. In science, we investigated materials around the classroom, identifying what they were made from and using scientific vocabulary to discuss properties such as transparent, translucent and opaque. We also created more wonderful art sketches of our school building and earned lots of sheep points towards our first prize. We have also been looking at friendships in PSHE and thinking about what makes our classmates so special. Many of us have done brilliantly in our spelling tests over the last two weeks too. We also had the pleasure of being taught by Mr Popple on Wednesday — a surprise change that the children embraced fantastically.

Week 2

We’ve had another fantastic week in Year 2! In computing, we have begun learning about IT all around us, especially the technology we use in school every day. In science, we’ve started exploring materials and their properties, while in history we’ve kicked off our new topic on how schools have changed over time. We’re very excited for this unit and already have some amazing pictures of our school to compare past and present.

This week we also talked about British Values, focusing on the importance of democracy. Following this, several children in our class put themselves forward for the school council. Everyone wrote their own manifestos and presented their ideas to the class before we held a vote to decide who would represent us this year — a real-life example of democracy in action!

We ended the week with some incredible art, painting pictures of our school to display at the Heritage Walk on Saturday 20th September. Another brilliant week of learning — we can’t wait to see what Week 3 brings!

Week 1

This week we were delighted to welcome our new Year 2 children to school. Everyone has settled in brilliantly and we have already been working hard to impress and make great progress. We have had a big focus on handwriting practice and presentation in our books to ensure the best possible start to the year. Alongside this, we have been learning all about our emotions and the Zones of Regulation — recognising our feelings and understanding that it’s normal to experience different emotions at different times. We also enjoyed an exciting surprise: Leeds Rhinos will be coaching us every Thursday this half term, helping us to develop our throwing and catching skills. It’s been a fantastic first week back, and we’re all ready to dive into Week 2 with enthusiasm!