✨Year 2 Class Letter ✨

🌱Spring Term 2025🌱

Welcome back!

We hope you had a brilliant Christmas and New Year and a well earned rest! We have most definitely embraced the New Year with a spring in our step and had a fantastic first week back. We are loving our new classroom and I have never seen us so keen and engaged!⭐️

This week we finished off our pirate’s topic ready to move onto our new topic- Explorers around the world next week. 🌎🗺️ To finish off the topic on a high we each got a gold coin, hid it round school and drew a treasure map for our partner to find on their very own treasure hunt! 🏴‍☠️🪙

Over the last term we made some super progress! Particularly in our Times tables and arithmetic tests. 👌

Our goal this term will be keep up our super Maths scores and focus on embedding our results from our spelling tests into our work in English and our other subjects. We are focusing on SPAG – Spelling, punctuation and grammar this term as well as our handwriting!✏️✍️

 

⭐️We are striving to improve and impress.⭐️

 

Well done Year 2! A fantastic first week!

 

Our topic for this term is: Explorers

 

English📚

This term we will look at narrative – stories by the same author (Simon Bartrum) as well as non-narrative – non-chronological reports.

The children will be working on improving their writing by looking at punctuation and sentence structure. We will develop our joined handwriting skills and overall neatness of work.

Weekly spellings will be sent home and these will be the words Year 2 are expected to be able to spell. Please spend time each week going over the words with your child.

Reading books are sent home on a Mon, Tues, Weds and Thurs. Please allow time to listen to your child read. In addition to individual reading books we will have a daily whole class Guided Reading lesson, when we will study together a range of texts.

We have started our new class novel that we read everyday at home time and we are absolutely loving it! This term is it The Twits by Roahl Dahl.

 

Maths ➖➗➕🟰

This term we will be focusing on Money, Multiplication & Division and Measurement. The children should also be able to recall and use multiplication and division facts for the 2, 5 and 10 times. Maths homework is given on a Wednesday and should be returned to school by the following Monday.

 

Topic 🔭🌎

This term our topic is Explorers. Most of our lessons will be adapted around this theme. In History we will be learning about Neil Armstrong, our daily guided reading sessions will be linked to explorers and the moon, our English topic will be linked through Simon Bartrum books – Man on the Moon and others. If you have any of these texts at home, please feel free to let your child bring them in to share with the class. We will make sure they are looked after. In DT we will be making moon buggys and fingers crossed we are looking into our trip for this term to be based around explorers! Please could we ask that is you have any card board boxes or egg boxes your bring them in for us to help with our supplies for moon buggy junk modelling!

 

Homework 📝

Please encourage your child to complete any homework tasks as neatly as possible and in pencil. Tasks set may require your support on occasions but it is expected that your child should be able to complete most of the work set independently. Your child will have regular homework so please ensure this is returned to school each week:

 

SPELLINGS – given out on Friday and return books the following Friday for their test – please try and remember these we have had LOTS of forgotten ones recently

 

READING – books come home Mon, Tues, Weds, Thurs, please return daily even if the book has not been completed. Lots of children have moved up this term. It is absolutely fine to read the longer books Turquoise + over a few days but please still return to school daily.

 

ENGLISH – an English activity will be given out Wednesday to be returned the following Monday

 

MATHS – a Maths activity will be given out Wednesday to be returned the following Monday

 

PE 🎾🏅

Our PE sessions will vary each term so please ensure your child has their full named kit in school at all times. This term we will be doing PE on a Monday afternoon. A pair of trainers is also helpful for when we are outside or if they wish to participate in organised sporting activities at lunchtime.

 

Teaching Assistants🙋‍♀️

Mrs Cartwright will be working as a Teaching Assistant in our class Monday to Thursday.

Trips 🚌

The news you’ve all been waiting for! We finally have permission to start planning and booking trips. We are hoping to book a trip this term to link in with our explorers/ space/ astronaut theme! We will keep you updated via Class Dojo so please keep your eyes peeled!

If you have any questions, worries or concerns please ring the office and leave a message, or make a note in your child’s reading diary. I will get back to you as soon as possible. As always I will be available at home time for a chat at the gates if you need me!

Many thanks for your continued support.

We look forward to another busy term!

 

Miss Watson 🌈

&

Mrs Cartwright💕

 

 

 

 

 

 

We have made a wonderful start to Year 2! ⭐️ From getting very sweaty and competitive in PE 🎾👟 and learning about different materials 🪵🧱 in Science, making masterpieces in Art 🎨🖌 , embracing our Worship Challenges ✝️, learning about the 7 continents and 5 oceans through songs and maps in Geography 🌊🌎 to bringing our favourite stories to school 📚 and sharing why they are special to us ready to learn about why The Bible is special in RE ⛪️ to our busy English and Maths filled mornings ✏️🧮 We are none stop! Busy busy .. 

Click on an album on the right to see all our adventures! 🤸‍♀️✨