Year 2: Miss Walker 2024 - 2025

Hello and welcome to our class page. 

We are having a great time in Year 2 - everybody is working very hard and we can see that hard work paying off!

In Year 2 we are still supported by Mrs Dandy. Miss Bennett and Mrs Rose. 

In Maths we will continue to explore all four operations (addition, subtraction, multiplication and division) and completing our work about fractions. We will then return to addition and subtraction of two digit numbers, including crossing the boundaries of 10s. 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. 

We will continue our unit of work about 'The Dragon Machine' and write our own fictional stories. We will also be reading many different fictional stories in our guided reading work. 

In History, we will be exploring famous nurses, including Florence Nightingale, Mary Seacole and Edith Cavell. 

In Geography, we will continue to learn about the seven continents and five oceans of the world. We will also learn about our own locality. 

In Science, we will be exploring animals and their habitats. 

During our Music sessions, we will be practising explore beat, rhythm and tempo. In Computing we will be making our own digital music. 

In RE we will be exploring Christianity and the Bible. In PSHE, we will be looking at family and friends relationship as well as the importance and uses of money. 

PE this half term will be on Monday and Tuesday, we will be focussing on gymnastics and outdoor activities. 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 BLUE 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 BLUE Summer 1). If you have completed most of these challenges before half term, you will earn your BLUE 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.

Miss Walker