Year 2
Welcome to Year 2!
Class Teacher: Mrs Bechley
Mrs Bechley
Support Staff:
Mrs Crisp Miss Jones
Welcome to the Year 2 page. We are pleased that all the children have settled into the school year. We hope parents/carers have had an opportunity to meet us and get to know us as a team.
In Year 2, we pride ourselves on having an 'open door' policy in Year 2 and hope that all our parents/ carers feel that they have regular contact with members of staff from the year group team. If you require any support, please do not hesitate to contact us using our email addresses or by making an appointment via the main office.
We very much look forward to working with our Year 2 friends and families this year.
Kind Regards,
Year 2 Team
Spring Term 2026 
English
We will be focusing on embedding our sentence and word level work, building accuracy when using finger spaces, capital letters and full stops. This term will be continuing to develop our phonological awareness and applying our skills to a range of our writing. We will be using narrative texts linked to losing a special toy. The children will be applying their imagination when creating their own characters and settings. To develop their writing, we will be focusing on sequencing sentences using conjunctions and developing our sentence level work, using adjectives for description. The children will be using their Writing Toolkits to develop their understanding when writing letters. We will conclude the Spring Term by learning about the features of a diamante poem.
In addition, we will be having handwriting and spelling sessions throughout the week to develop consistent letter formation and accurate spelling across all curriculum areas.
We will continue to use our sound knowledge, applying these to new words. The children will continue to use their segmenting skills to breakdown spoken words and represent these by graphemes, spelling many of these words correctly. By the end of year 2, children will be expected to spell many of the common exception words (see below) correctly.
Year 1- common exception words
Year 2- common exception words
We will be having Talk through Stories sessions throughout the week, daily story sessions and a weekly whole class reading session where we will be developing reading skills linked to VIPERS (Vocabulary, Inference, Prediction, Explanation, Retrieval and Sequencing)
We will be visiting the library during the term to share stories with the library staff and to choose some new books for our classroom.
Maths
As Mathematicians, we will use our knowledge of place value to recognise and use £ and p symbols. We will learn to use our addition and subtraction skills when combining coins to make amounts and solve simple addition and subtraction problems. We will learn to identify the multiplication symbol and to explore the 2, 5 and 10 times tables. We will explore grouping and sharing, arrays and repeated addition. Using the four operations to solve simple real-life problems. In our Measurements learning we will learn to measure in centimetre and metres, comparing and ordering lengths and heights. We will measure mass in grams/kilograms and capacity using millilitres/litres.
Geography
In Term 3 we will learn that about hot and cold deserts. We will learn that deserts are places with very little precipitation. They have a very dry climate. We will learn that deserts can be hot and dry, or cold and dry. We will learn that deserts are found in all continents of the world.Most hot deserts are near the Equator and that most cold deserts are near the North Pole or South Pole.
Science
In Term 3 we will be using the United Learning curriculum to develop our knowledge and understanding about materials. We will be exploring the physical properties of everyday materials and looking at how different materials can change shape, and be used to make different objects.
In Term 4 we will be learning that all living things are called organisms. We will be learning how to identify the different features of organisms. We will be learning that a habitat is where an organism lives and what they need to eat as part of the food chain in order to stay alive.
PE
Our PE days this term are Wednesday and Thursday. Please make sure your child has school shorts, house team coloured T-shirt, tracksuit if cold, trainers or plimsolls and a waterbottle in school.
Home learning:
It is really important that the children read as often as possible. Please try to read with your child at least three times a week. They will be rewarded with this by helping them to make progress with their reading and developing a love of reading, but also with a reading raffle ticket, which could mean they win a new book!
The children are continuing on their Times Table Rock Star journey, which they will continue throughout their time at Victoria Road Primary School. Their login details can be found in their reading planner. We love to see them succeed, and they will have an opportunity to compete against the whole school; some have already had achievement awards at our Friday awards ceremony.
If any child does not have access to a tablet, mobile phone or laptop, then we can help them complete their work before school or whenever necessary. Please pop in to arrange this so we can achieve the set outcome for your child.
Topic Webs
Parent Presentation
Autumn Term Parent Presentation
Recommended Reads
Best Books for Year 2: Recommended Booklist for Ages 6-7
ACCELERATED READING
The children are enroled on Accelerated Reader which provides comprehension quizzes. The results of these can be viewed at home.
Children use a software program called Renaissance Place at school. This program has a special feature called Renaissance Home Connect, which you can access outside of school from any computer with an Internet connection. Renaissance Home Connect is fun and easy to use. It allows the teacher, and you to share information about children's progress in Accelerated Reader. You can log in to Renaissance Home Connect from any computer with an Internet connection and compatible browser. Children have been given their user names and passwords. To log in to Renaissance Home Connect Website:
https://Ukhosted102.renlearn.co.uk/2236540/HomeConnect
If you'd like to receive emails showing your student's quiz or test results, click the Email Setup link.
I have had a couple of questions about logging on from home. First - this is definitely possible, they can do quizzes and children can also use myON e-book library and daily myON News service - freely available for the duration of the closures. It will allow pupils to access at home, on tablet and laptop, an e-library of over 7000 books. Children can browse through books on myON. Once they have read the book, they can then log into your schools Renaissance site and click the Accelerated Reader tile. They can then search for the book and take a quiz. Please note that not all books on myON are quizzed.
https://readon.myon.co.uk/library/browse.html
The address to use to get to AR is: https://ukhosted102.renlearn.co.uk/2236540/default.aspx