Year 2
Welcome to Year 2!
Class Teachers: Miss Green (Monday-Wednesday) and Mrs Collins (Thursday-Friday) 
Miss Green Mrs Collins
Support Staff: Mrs Gavin
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
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 traditional tales to support us when thinking about ‘good’ and ‘bad’ characters and how characters can overcome ‘bad’ situations. 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 creating their own story maps, following their story sequence which they will bring home and orally share with you to support their skills as ‘Storytellers’.
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 exceptional 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 numbers up to 100 to help us understand that two-digit numbers are made up of tens and ones. This understanding will support our learning about addition and subtraction. We will learn about how we can add and subtract a multiple of ten to/from a number; we will explore what happens to the tens value when we add/subtract a single-digit number to/from a two-digit number; we will start to learn mental methods to calculate with more efficiency; and we will apply this learning to a range of contexts
Geography
This term in Geography we will be getting to grips with our local area all whilst learning about how people use and create maps. We will kick off the topic with some fun games helping us to get used to using language such as 'north, south, east and west' when giving directions. We will be having a go at using compasses to help us find directions during fieldwork and then will even have a go at creating our own maps whilst developing our understanding of scale and proportion.
Science
We will be using the United Learning curriculum to develop our knowledge and understanding about what animals need to survive and stay healthy.
Children will be looking at their own lifestyles as well as that of animals in the wild. They will consider diet, exercise and the living conditions that are needed to thrive. The childre will learn a range of scientific vocabulary linked to their knowledge and understanding of the world around them.
PE
Our PE days this term are Tuesday (Indoor PE) and Friday's (Outdoor). Please make sure your child has school shorts, school t-shirt, tracksuit if cold, trainers or plimsolls.
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!
We have recently started them 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
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