WELCOME TO YEAR 2!

Hello and welcome to our Year 2 class page.

Your teachers  are: 

Mrs Martindale (Key Stage 1 lead) and Mrs Reynolds.

Miss Baig (2M Thursday all day) and Mrs Evans will also lead the class at times. 

Keep in touch as much as possible via CLASS DOJO 

and follow us on Twitter:

@StLukesYear2M

@StLukesYear2R

 USEFUL INFORMATION 

PE

PE for Year 2 will be on a WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON.

All children can now come into school on this day in their full PE kit. This will be a plain white t-shirt, black bottoms and suitable footwear.

WATER BOTTLES

Children need to bring in their own water bottle, filled with WATER, that will remain on their desk all day for easy access when needed. PLEASE remind your child to bring home their bottle daily for washing and refilling  

SPELLINGS

We will be providing the children with a list of words on a Friday in their homework book. Please encourage them to practice these and then return them to school on a Friday ready for their test! These spellings will be linked to the Phonics curriculum as well as spellings that will help with their daily writing. We will be celebrating those children who beat their score each week!

READING BOOKS

All children will be bringing home a phonetically decodable book each week on a Friday. These books match the level the children are reading at and should be read with parental support. Children will also be bringing home a reading for pleasure book that the child has chosen to share happily with someone in your household  PLEASE ensure all books are returned by Thursday the following week. PLEASE take the time to read with your child every week at home and sign their reading record AT LEAST 3 times a week. This will be monitored by the teachers and dojo's will be awarded.

We love reading at St Luke's and our classroom is over flowing with so many wonderful books including fiction and non fiction. What ever you like to read, here in school we will have something for you!

It is so important to continue this love of reading at home. This could be on your own, with a friend or with a family member. Spending 30 minutes a day reading will really help to improve your reading skills and your vocabulary.

HOMEWORK

Homework will be being provided each week on a Friday. This will be in paper form for your child to complete.

PLEASE make sure this is completed over the weekend in your homework book.

There are additional activities that you can complete at home over the half term for extra DOJO POINTS! 

Autumn 2 Homework map

Our homework policy:

What are we learning?

Want to see what you will be learning in Year 2? Have a look at the curriculum maps below which show the curriculum content and topics for each half term. They include the key topics, vocabulary and knowledge for each subject. You can also find key texts studied.

If you would like to look at the curriculum in more detail, head over to our curriculum page on the website. Click here to go there now.

CURRICULUM

Please find some curriculum information below. We hope this will help with conversations at home around the children's learning. 

MATHS

In Maths this half term we will be focusing ADDITION AND SUBTRACTION. We will be identifying fact families and comparing number sentences. We will also be using the column method! 

These TopMarks games can help with their Maths fluency at home. They are free and good fun!

https://www.topmarks.co.uk/money/coins-game

https://www.topmarks.co.uk/maths-games/7-11-years/money

LITERACY

This half term we will be continuing to focus lots on our handwriting and the presentation of our work. Our first text this half term will be 'Somebody swallowed Stanley' where we will be writing letters to help save our oceans. Our second text will be 'Captain Green and the Plastic scene'. We will be using all the wonderful aspects of writing we have learnt to write a story retell for those who have not read the story. We will also be writing cross curricular and writing a diary entry as if we were Samuel Pepys during the Great Fire of London. Our visit from 'The Drama Hut' should help with this - very exciting!

SCIENCE

In Science, we are learning about 'Everyday Materials'. We will be identifying different materials and investigating which would be most suitable material to use in different situations. Which pig built the best house?

RE 

In Religious Education this half term our big question is 'What is the good news Christians believe Jesus brings?'. We will be looking at the Christmas story as believed by Christians, thinking about the views and feelings of Mary, the Shepherd's and the visit from the Angel. We will also be getting ready to perform our version of the Nativity!

Always here to help!

If one of our pupils ever has a worry in school, they know that they can speak to one of the adults in their classroom or one of the designated safeguarding leaders (DSLs). The DSLs have their photographs displayed on posters all around school, including in the classroom.

Useful Websites:

Please use the links below to access our FAVOURITE websites that we use in class. Log in details are sent out in book bags. Please try and access these websites as much as you can!!