Year 2
Welcome to Year 2!
Class Teacher: Miss Green & Miss Riddell
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 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
This term our PE days will be on Tuesday and Friday. Please ensure that your child wears the appropriate school PE kit for these sessions and that they bring to school a water bottle filled with water every day.
Topic web : Autumn term 
English
This term will be continuing to develop our phonological awareness and applying our skills to a range of our writing. In the early part of term 1, we will be exploring a range of acrostic poems. We will be using a range of exciting vocabulary and practising using our oracy skills, thinking about the impact of language and presentation on our audience. We will be applying our imagination to a range of traditional fictional stories, considering good verses bad characters. We will be focusing on sequencing sentences using conjunctions and developing our sentence level work, using adjectives for description.
In the latter part of the term, we will be exploring the purpose and use of information texts. The children will think about how and when they use information texts in their everyday life, considering the key features of the texts, such as labels, captions, diagrams, charts and list.
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
Maths
This term we will be ensuring we have a good understanding of numbers to 20 before moving onto securing our knowledge of tens and ones in two-digit numbers to 100. We will be practising writing numbers to 100 as words and numerals and we will be perfecting our counting in 2s,3s,5s and 10s. We will also be comparing and ordering numbers. Towards the end of term 1 we will then move onto begin our addition and subtraction learning, practising our number bonds to 10, 20 and 100 before building upon our written strategies from last year to help us to add and subtract other numbers.
Science
This term we will be learning about all things to do with plants. In this unit, the children will be thinking about what plants, need to grow and thrive in environments. The children will be expanding their knowledge about plants, exploring germination.
After half term, the children will be thinking about the needs of animals linked to survival. They will be exploring the importance of health, diet and exercise and the impact on the human body. Children will be expanding their use of vocabulary linked to their knowledge and understanding of the world around them.
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.
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