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Year Two
WELCOME to Year 2 – 2024-2025
Attached are a variety of documents that will enable you to navigate your way through Year 2 a little easier. As always, if you have any questions, please speak to any of the class team in the playground before or after school, or if it will require a significant amount of time, please make an appointment with the school office.
Miss Jones and Miss Noble.
Meet the Teachers 2024-2025
Autumn 1 Curriculum Newsletter
Home Learning Term 1 – Capital Cities
Curriculum documents:
Year 2 Common Exception Words
ELS Year 2 – Spelling Lists
Yr 2 Reading comprehension
Yr 2 Reading word reading – spoken language
Yr 2 Writing composition
Yr 2 Writing spelling handwriting
Yr 2 Writing
Yr 2 Maths- Number Place Value Addition Subtraction Multiplication Division
Yr 2 Maths Properties of Shape Statistics Measurement
Handwriting
Handwriting skills in Year 2 are taught regularly and systematically through the use of the PENPALS Handwriting scheme (Cambridge University Press).
Five stages are identified and these form the basic organisation of the scheme:
- Readiness for writing: gross and fine motor skills leading to letter formation(Pre-school and Reception)
- Beginning to join (Upper KS1)
- Securing joins (Lower KS2)
- Practising speed and fluency (KS2)
- Presentation skills (KS2)
Year 2 Blog 2024 – 2025
Year 2: 10.10.24
This week we have started our first computing unit! We have investigated what is information technology, where we would find it and what benefits it has to us. So far, we have sorted out information technology into what is and what is not, did a technology hunt around...
Year 2: 20.09.24
In Maths, we have been looking at place value as our first unit and have been exploring tens and ones. We have looked at representing two-digit numbers in a variety of ways. We have been using multiple manipulatives to practically show our understanding. These have...
Year 2: 13.09.24
The children have started their first Talk For Writing text ‘Little Charlie’, a journey story, and we will be focusing on the fundamentals in writing such as capital letters, finger spaces, punctuation, letter formation and presentation. They have loved starting their...
Year 2: 06.09.24
What an exciting start to Year 2! The children started off our first topic ‘Capital Cities’ by exploring and tasting 4 different foods from the 4 countries in the UK. The children really enjoyed looking for clues as to where they were from. They actually got them all...
Year 2 Blog 2023 – 2024
Year Two: Fitness First
With Mr McGrady from NTFC, we focussed again on our fitness, and tried some different skills – on Mondays we should be worn out by the end of the day! Please ensure that your child has their PE kit in school every day. We explored online bullying as a part of our...
Year Two: A wonderfully, wintry start to our weather topic!
What a busy start to the year we have had. We had a snow storm in the classroom this week, to launch our new topic of Wild Weather. We also looked at the weekly weather forecast to see what may happen and even spotted a snow flurry or two. The children were shocked to...
Year Two: The end to a busy Autumn Term – we’ve loved it!
The Autumn 2 Term is always a busy one and we have certainly crammed plenty of learning and fun along the way. We finished the term with creativity in all shapes and sizes. We finished our Nativity play, A Magical Christmas Journey’ – our confidence grew through every...
Year Two: What a performance!
The children completed a wonderful performance of A Magical Christmas Journey to their grandparents this week, ready to do their performances to the rest of the school and parents next week. We finished our geography topic of Treasure Hunters, by completing a...
Year Two: It’s beginning to look a lot like Christmas!
Firstly, apologies for the lack of photos this week, as we have been very busy rehearsing our Nativity with our first Dress Rehearsal and our first time on the stage where we will be performing! We are very excited. We even more excited to welcome our families in to...
Year Two: Exploring Cogenhoe
Linked to our current theme of Treasure Hunters, we explored Cogenhoe using two different maps and learnt about the history of some of the place names. We had a wonderful time and saw our village in a different light. In our Literacy lessons, we wrote a persuasive...