Year 2 - Mrs Brougham 2025 - 2026

Hello I am Mrs. Brougham and welcome to Year 2's class page. 

We are all so happy to be back at school and are ready to work hard.  Our class is supported by Miss Bennett and Mrs Dandy. 

In Maths we will continue to explore numbers to 100 and then we will then move on to addition and subtraction of two digit numbers. In our maths meetings we focus on; telling the time, ordinal numbers, days of the week, months of the year, patterns, shapes, direction and statistics. 

In English we will be exploring our first unit of work about 'Look Up' and will be writing diaries. We will also be reading many different fictional stories in our guided reading work as well as non-fiction.

In History, we will be exploring Guy Fawkes. In Geography, we will be learning about the countries that make up the UK, looking at the human and physical features.Our topic in science this half term is animals including humans. In Music, we will be practising explore beat, rhythm and tempo. In Computing, we will be programming, using scratch Jr.  In RE, we will be exploring Christianity and in PSHE, we will be looking at the importance of respecting ourselves and others. 

PE this half term will be on Wednesday and Thursday. Please ensure your child has their full kit in school. Kits will then be sent home at the end of half term to be washed.

In KS1 we have three different books that are sent home.

Reading for Pleasure books – these are sent home on Monday and returned on Friday. These are books that are to be shared as a family, at bed time, before tea or just snuggled up on the sofa.

RWI books – these are sent home on Monday and returned on Friday. These are phonetically plausible books that are chosen specific in line with your child’s phonic knowledge. Once your child has completed the programme they will no longer bring one of these books home.

Phonetically decodable or banded reading books – these are changed every Tuesday and Friday. Don’t worry about reading a full book each day, reading a couple of pages each day will be great. Please just make a note of which page you have read up to. 

Please remember to read with your child as often as possible. School planners are checked daily for any messages.  

In addition to reading daily, we have Rainbow Challenges for KS1. These are challenges set for each half term. The PURPLE Rainbow Challenge has six different activities for you to complete before May half term. Please take pictures of you completing each activity or of the completed activities and add it onto School Spider (Rainbow Challenges PURPLE Summer 2). If you have completed most of these challenges before half term, you will earn your PURPLE Rainbow Certificate.  

If you ever have any concerns or want to discuss something, please make a note in your child’s planner that you would like to speak to me or email the school office and I will get back to you ASAP.

Mrs. Brougham