Year 2

With Mrs Boardman and Mrs Vachhiyat

WELCOME TO year 2!

Summer term has arrived!
This term we have lots of new and exciting things to learn about. We will be focusing most of our learning around phonics, reading and writing. We will also be learning a new topic in science - Space and also in history - Neil Armstrong.

Our PE day is MONDAY. Please remember to wear your PE uniform from home. Our PE uniform is a white t-shirt, black or blue jogging bottoms / leggings, socks, trainers and your school jumper or hoodie. Please make sure you also bring a coat to school as the weather does change during the day.

Please remember to read your home reading book at least three times a week and make sure your reading record is signed by a grown-up each time you have read.

Take care and stay safe,
Mrs Boardman and Mrs Vachhiyat

Key Messages

Please read with your child three times a week and complete the homework set, including the mastering number worksheets.

National story telling week

Year 2 had the pleasure of welcoming Year 5 to their classes to celebrate National Story Telling Week. All classes used their story maps to act out their class narrative, retelling with lots of expression, enthusiasm and fun - we loved hearing each others fantastic stories!

This week the children have also brought their our own stories from home into school and read them to their friends. We have been really proud of how confident the children have been reading in front of their classes!

China theme day

Year 2 had a China themed day on Wednesday 29th January 2025 as part of their geography topic 'All about China'. We planned the day and set the classrooms up just as they do in China schools. We started the day off by listening to the national anthem of China. The children learned how to write their name in Mandarin and also learned to count to 20 in Mandarin. They enjoyed using the iPads and atlases to complete a fact file about China.

The afternoon was all about arts and crafts; the children created their dragon masks, made lanterns, did some food tasting and ended the day with a fabulous dragon parade around school, they were watched by all the other year groups. The children had an amazing day!

Weekly spellings

Spellings will be sent home every Friday.
Please help your child to spell these words without looking.
Children will have a spelling test the following week on a Friday.

Please continue to practice spelling your year one and year two common exception words that can be found at the bottom of this page.

English - Story Maps

Robins - 'The way back home'

sparrows - 'the way back home'

Homework overview

Physical education

Please click here for your PE lessons with Mr Fogarty

REMEMBER: exercise is really important for our bodies to keep ourselves healthy.

Click on the link to do PE with Joe Wicks - https://www.youtube.com/c/TheBodyCoachTV/featured

Forest School

Please click here for your Forest School lessons.

Please use the Year 1 and Year 2 Common Exception Words list, under the Useful Resources to do spellings with your child.

Please log in to Letter Join, under the Useful Websites section and choose letters and words for your child to do for handwriting practice. Log in details can be found in your child's homework book.

Activity File Share

Below are the folders where we share the materials you will need if you need to isolate at home.
Just open the folder and click the file you need to open & save. We have also saved the Mastering Number resources in the folder below, which we shared with you at the parent workshops.