Year 2

Welcome to Year 2! We are so excited to welcome your child to the year group
and as part of this we would also like to introduce the Year 2 team for 2024-2025! The staff in Year 2 are Miss Payne, Miss Smith and Mrs Finney. Please feel free to talk to the members of staff if you have any questions related to your child’s time in Year 2.

General Information

• Homework will be given every Friday and should be returned to school by the following Thursday.
• Book bags should be brought into school every day. Please record any reading your child does at home in their diaries. We aim to change books weekly but if books need changing before then, please speak to a member of staff.
• It is important to hear your child read on a regular basis, to develop fluency and comprehensions skills. Reading a book several times really helps with the fluency. If there are particular words they get stuck on, write them down and use them to play snap or memory games etc. Further guidance to help you in supporting your child’s reading will be provided throughout the term.
• The classroom doors will be open at 8:35 am in the morning and the children will be greeted by a member of staff and walk straight into class. Similarly, at 3:10pm the children will leave school via the classroom door.
• Children will need to bring a named water bottle into school. No juice or fizzy drinks.
• The children will have a personal locker to keep all their belongings.
• Children will be provided with stationary, so they do not need to bring
  their own equipment into school.

In Year 2, your child will cover a huge range of new learning. We cover all aspects of the curriculum through engaging lessons, with experiences and trips to support this.
Our learning is led by our topics, which provide the children with new and rich learning. The cross-curricular links allow the children to use their new knowledge within their writing and even their maths.
We always have a busy year in Year 2 with lots of great experiences including the yearly nativity, school trips and unforgettable experiences.

All of our learning can be found on the document below which is our long term
plan:

The Big Ideas Y2 Long Term Planning 2024-2025

Autumn 2023/2024 newsletter