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 - Monday and Tuesday. 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 Wednesday. Please make sure your child's spelling book is in their book bag on a Wednesday 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 spelling book 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 these expectations is greatly valued. If you have any queries regarding the content of this, please talk to your child’s teacher.

Autumn 2

Week 1

Welcome back! We hope you all had a wonderful half term break and it has been fantastic to welcome the children back for Autumn 2! We have kicked off the new term with our exciting new focus text in Writing, Meerkat Mail, following the adventures of Sunny the meerkat. To help us better understand Sunny’s journey, we linked our learning across subjects by exploring continents in Geography and discovering different animal habitats in Science. Alongside our learning, the children got creative by using wax crayons to make vibrant, fabulous firework pictures, and they put their digital skills into practice during Computing by taking iPads around the school building to photograph different spots.

Autumn 1

Week 8

What a brilliant first half term we have had in Year 2! We can't believe the end of Autumn 1 is already here, and the children have settled into their new year group so well. This week, we completed our chairs for Baby Bear, putting our design and building skills to the test. In Writing, the children wrote their fantastic fact files on schools in the past, using old photographs of Westroyd to help illustrate their learning and compare school life then and now.

Week 7

What a great week we have had! A big thank you to the fabulous grandparents who came in to talk to us about their time at school. We had so much fun learning more about schools in the past and will be using all this wonderful information next week to write our fact files! We learnt how to add three addends together using ten frames. We began creating our own chairs and beds for Baby Bear or our favourite teddies from home!

Week 6

What a fantastic and busy week we have had! We began our exciting new writing topic, Schools in the Past, aiming towards writing our very own fact files. In Maths, we have been revisiting doubles. The children had so much fun using dice to help decide which numbers to double! We went on a wonderful Welly Walk, which everyone loved! The children also took part in a special Harvest sing-along at the local church, thank you to all the parents who came! The children designed their own chairs for Baby Bear (or their favourite teddy from home) to sit in, which we are looking forward to building next week.

Week 5

What another busy and exciting week we’ve had! The children have put so much energy and enthusiasm into their learning across all subjects this week. We’ve been using lots of practical resources to explore place value and deepen our understanding of numbers. We stepped back in time to draw and discuss what a classroom in the 1900s looked like, comparing it to our own classroom. The children created fantastic self-portraits to display proudly around the school! In our writing sessions, we’ve been crafting parts of traditional tales, focusing on rich descriptions and story structure. We held a lively debate around a big question: Was the Big Bad Wolf really wrong for blowing down the three little pigs' houses? The children came up with brilliant arguments on both sides.

Week 4

What another busy and exciting week we’ve had in Year 2! The children have shown so much enthusiasm across all of our subjects and are working fantastically well together. This week in Science, we carried out an exciting experiment to test materials. The children made predictions, tested various objects, and discussed each material and its properties.

In Writing, the children have been stepping into the shoes of authors! They have been busy planning and writing their very own traditional tales, putting all their descriptive ideas into complete stories. To finish off the topic, everyone had a wonderful time writing their tales into their very own handmade storybooks! In Maths, we expanded our place value knowledge by exploring numbers beyond 100. The children used base-ten blocks, place value charts, and number lines to represent, build, and compare three-digit numbers with confidence.

Week 3

We have had another brilliant week of learning in Year 2! The children are working so hard and continuing to show fantastic enthusiasm in all our lessons.We continued our topic on Schools in the Past by taking a closer look at our own school’s history! The children loved looking through a special book filled with old photographs of Westroyd  School. They enjoyed comparing what the school, classrooms, and uniforms used to look like with how Westroyd looks today. In Writing, we have been focusing on sentence structure and using the conjunction ‘and’ to join two ideas or clauses together. The children worked hard to write clear, detailed sentences while continuing to practise their neat handwriting and punctuation. In Maths, we have been using part-part-whole models to deepen our understanding of numbers and place value. The children explored breaking numbers down into two parts and recombining them to make a whole, using practical resources and representations to explain their mathematical thinking

Week 2

It has been another amazing week in Year 2 as the children continue settling into our new class routines! The children demonstrated fantastic knowledge of the characters in The Three Little Pigs. They worked hard on thinking about character dialogue and wrote their own ideas using speech marks alongside plenty of punctuation. We explored 0–100 number lines, which everyone really enjoyed! The children practised estimating where different multiples of ten should go. We began learning about how computers work and understanding their key functions. We launched our new topic, Schools in the Past. The children loved looking at pictures to see what schools used to look like, what games children played, and what they did during PE lessons.

Week 1

Welcome to Year 2! What a fantastic start to the new school year! The children have settled into Year 2 wonderfully, setting a fantastic example as excellent role models across the school. Together, we worked on creating our new class rules to ensure a safe, kind and positive learning environment, and we have loved spending time exploring our new reading corner. In Writing, we kicked off our learning with our exciting new text, The Three Little Pigs. The children had fun coming up with questions to ask the Big Bad Wolf and put their descriptive skills to work using adjectives to describe the characters. We also jumped right back into our daily phonics sessions, refreshing our skills and building confidence for the half-term ahead. In Maths, we have been focusing on understanding numbers and place value. The children have been busy exploring groups of ten using counters and working together to build amazing number lines. It’s been a week packed with fantastic learning, effort, and enthusiasm!