Year 2 2025/26
Year 2
Dear Parents and Carers,
Welcome to our new class page.
This Friday is Enterprise Day. Every class has made something to sell and the proceeds will all go to the Caritas Advent Appeal. We look forward to seeing you there.
The children love to be our prayer person and lead the prayers for the day.
Our Class prayers are:
Maths - In maths we will be completing work on addition and subtraction. We will then learn about shapes and their properties.
Literacy – We will be linking our writing to our topic. which is World War 2. We will be writing letters and recipe writing, looking at recipes from World War 2.
RE – We are now using the New Religious Education Directory. Year 2 use the resources from the Oxford University Press. In Branch 1, we focused on Creation to Covenant. This half-term we will be looking at Prophecy and Promise. In this unit we will learn about the prophets discuss the visitation, Advent and the Nativity story through Luke's Gospel.
History – Our topic is World War Two. We have been learning about refugees and what happened to them during the war. We have looked at what women did during the war.
Geography - We will be looking at the local area and comparing rural and urban areas. We will look at maps and create a map of our local area.
Science – We will be completing our topic on humans. We will then move on to materials and their uses.
Music – We will be using Charanga and learning some Christmas songs.
PSHE – We will be beginning work from the new Ten Ten curriculum.
PE - Our PE will be Gymnastics and racket skills.
Homework
The homework will be set each week each Friday to be completed by the following Wednesday. We will send spellings, a literacy or comprehension sheet and a maths sheet. There will be a weekly spelling and times tables test every Thursday and a maths sheet that will focus on the maths topic we have been covering this week.
Reading Books
We will send home weekly reading books. The children have a specific reading day on which they are to bring their reading book in. The expectation is that children in Year 2 should read at home every day. A record of this can be kept in the children’s reading record. We are aiming to foster a love of reading in the children.
Please, whenever possible, read to your children. They will absolutely love this and they enjoy being a regular reader.
P.E. kits
Children will need to come to school in their P.E. kits every Tuesday and Wednesday.
They MUST have the correct P.E. kit for outdoor games – a plain white t-shirt, black or blue shorts (or plain tracksuit bottoms and top when it gets colder).
TTRockstars
Dear Parents/Carers,
Your child should have a Login for Times Tables Rockstars home. This is a brilliant and fun way for your child to work on their times tables at home. Please encourage your children to use this on a regular basis as part of their homework.
If you have any questions please ask a member of staff from Year 2 and they will try to help you.
Thanks
Mrs Corcoran
Some useful websites for you to look at.
Here are some extra websites to explore:
10ticks.com has been updated to help practise mathematical fluency at home.
We use https://www.phonicsplay.co.uk/ to practise our phonics in class, there are free to use resources there to practise some phonics at home! If you click on these links and select a game to play and a sound – any would a good starting point to practise:
https://www.phonicsplay.co.uk/resources/phase/4
Or
https://www.phonicsplay.co.uk/resources/phase/3
The BBC website has some great resources :
https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/topics/zvq9bdm
There are plenty of phonics games to play at home here:
https://www.topmarks.co.uk/english-games/5-7-years/letters-and-sounds
Here are some extra maths games which cover what has been taught in class so far this term:
https://www.topmarks.co.uk/maths-games/5-7-years/ordering-and-sequencing
https://www.topmarks.co.uk/maths-games/5-7-years/counting
https://www.topmarks.co.uk/maths-games/5-7-years/place-value-odd-and-even
https://www.topmarks.co.uk/maths-games/5-7-years/times-tables
Here are some free online books that you can select from:
https://www.booktrust.org.uk/books-and-reading/have-some-fun/storybooks-and-games/
https://www.oxfordowl.co.uk/for-home/find-a-book/library-page/
And Manchester Library’s free Borrow Box: https://manchester.borrowbox.com/