Year 2 2024-2025

With Mrs Taylor, Mr Gelder, Mrs Johnson, Miss Royle, Miss Leishman, Miss Falshaw

Welcome to the spring term

We hope you all had a wonderful break and look forward to hearing all about it when you return.

We ended the autumn term feeling very proud of how Year 2 had settled into routines, taken on Year 2 work and risen to learning behaviour expectations and of course how they performed in the EYFS and KS1 Christmas show.

This standard has now been set and we are looking forward to seeing the development this term.

SNOW DAY 6/1/25

Maths

In Maths we are currently learning about Money.

Please take time to explore coins and notes that you have.

Practise counting in 2ps, 5ps, 10ps and 20ps, £1s, £2s, £5s and £10s. Let the children experiment making different amounts using a mixture of coins and notes.

Fluency is so important in Maths so continue using the White Rose and Numbots apps please.

English

Please enjoy the extra time to read something that you love!

Science

What better way to explore materials than to build a snowman or any other kind of snow structure! Enjoy, have fun and please send in photos.

Remember to log anything you do in reading records for extra dojos.

This half term we will be:

1) Revisiting our gem powers, school rules and zones of regulation

2) Enjoying fables and writing our own versions.

3) Focusing on what makes a good sentence and working on the place value of punctuation and grammar.

4) Learning about Muslim prayer in RE

5) Learning about Materials in Science

Reading is so important - please read to your children as often as possible at home!

IMPORTANT DAYS FOR YEAR 2

Tuesday - PE day and spelling checks in classes

Friday - library books and home reading books are changed

Please check on V School and children's reading records for any new home learning or links to online learning. It is very important that children continue their learning at home by practising skills that they are learning in school.

Please send children's work or questions to the following email address

yeartwo@haslingden-pri.lancs.sch.uk

A member of the Year 2 team will reply. We will be checking this address at least once a week.

Remember if you need to communicate there will always be a member of the Year 2 team out on the playground before and after school.

Thank you.

home learning expectations

Reading

It is so important that you read a little every day.

ONLINE GAMES

This half term children should be accessing:-

Spelling Shed

NumBots

Children practise using these games in school and need to practise at least 3 times a week at home. This is so important for building fluency in their spelling and number skills.

Reading

Please make sure that a grown up signs your reading record so that you can get Dojos!

Remember this could be:

your school reading book, which we check is the right level that you can read most of the words in.
a bedtime story that is read to you and maybe you join in with some parts
a book of your own that you are reading at home or your library book
a magazine or children's newspaper
an online book like those on Oxford Owl

Reading comprehension - extra tasks

There are some 60 second reads - reading comprehensions - in the shared folder and some children will be receiving paper copies of these as well. Others will take home their RWI book to read.

Maths - review your learning

In the Maths file at the bottom of this page there are some Parent booklets for the units that we have been learning in Year 2. Some Year 1 work books are in here as well as the Year 2 workbooks.

Please also continue to practise counting in 2s, 5s, 10s.

It is also REALLY IMPORTANT to practise adding 2 small numbers together and practising your number bonds to 10 and 20. You could also practise number bonds to 100

spelling and writing

Spelling Shed - this will have on it words that you need to be able to spell correctly by the end of Year 2. It is great for your confidence if you know these words and can spell them so please practise and enjoy the games.

Spellings - You will have spellings stuck in your book that are given and tested each Friday. These are the words that children are practising in class and on Spelling Shed.