Welcome to Year 2
We are delighted to welcome you to the Year 2 web page - this page will have lots of information over the school year. We hope that you will find everything here that you require, if you have any suggestions we will be pleased to hear from you. to stay up to date, follow us on Twitter.
Parent Information
How To Support Your Child Presentation (October 2022)
End of Key Stage 1 SATs Parent Information
Year 2 Teachers
Cherry - Miss Toft
Elder - Mrs Culverhouse and Miss Jensen
Juniper - Miss Wainwright
Lime - Miss Bird (Mondays, Tuesdays and Wednesdays), Miss Tahara (Thursdays and Fridays)
Year Leader - Miss Wainwright
Timetables
Below is a sample timetable which reflects a typical week in Year 2. Please read the current newsletter for details on your child's class PE Days'
Information
Year 2 Autumn 1 Newsletter
Year 2 Summer 1 Newsletter (current)
Homework
Please see the ‘how to support learning at home’ page for details on how to support your child. https://www.williamhardingschool.co.uk/how-to-support-learning-at-home
Our expectations in Year 2
Reading – All children will be given a reading book and reading diary. Books will be taken home daily and at weekends with an expectation that they will be shared/read with/to. Parents are invited to write comments in the reading diary. 15-20 minutes daily.
Children will occasionally be encouraged to find out information, bring in books or object of interest or a similar related task pertaining to the study being carried out.
Times Tables Rockstars
Extra Homework may also be set to support the progress of children towards their end of Year SATS
Spelling
Here you can find the common exception words from Year 2. Children are expected to know how to spell these words to help improve their writing.
Reading Rocks
We promote reading at home with our ‘Reading Rocks’ initiative. Class teachers will check the reading record books each week and award Dojo points to individual children accordingly. Those children on free readers can add any additional reading they have done to their reading record as well. The class with the most points at the end of the half term will win a prize! Children read in school everyday during RWI lessons and have opportunities to choose books during the Early Bird session. Teachers and TAs will listen to individual children read as often as the needs of each child requires. Therefore, it is important for each child to have their reading book and record book in school with them every day, even if they are not yet ready to change it.
Phonics and ‘Fred Frog’
In Year 2 we focus on the decoding, blending and segmenting of words to support children’s developments in reading and spelling. As the progress with their reading the focus turns to fluency in reading, which supports the children’s comprehension skills. We use ‘Read Write Inc’ to teach phonics, so you will hear the children refer to ‘Fred Talk’ (using sounds to sound out and decode words), and ‘Fred Fingers’ (using our fingers to help segment words for spelling).
For more information on RWI click here
Times Tables Rockstars
To develop and support children’s understanding of key multiplication facts, we are using Times Tables Rockstars alongside regular teaching within Maths sessions.
Click here to access the TimesTables Rockstars login page.
Knowledge Organisers
Knowledge organisers give an overview of what pupils will be learning in school over the course of their History, Geography or Art unit of work for the half term. Pupils have a copy of this in their Curriculum books to refer to within lessons. The Knowledge Organisers for each half term are available for you to download below so that you can support your child in discussing with them what they have been learning this week and build upon this learning at home, if you wish to do so.
Knowledge Organiser for Science Autumn 1
Knowledge Organiser for Geography Autumn 1
Knowledge Organiser for Art Autumn 1
Knowledge Organiser for Science Autumn 2
Knowledge Organiser for History Autumn 2
Knowledge Organiser of DT Autumn 2
Knowledge Organiser for Science Spring 1
Knowledge Organiser for Geography Spring 1
Knowledge Organiser for Art Spring 1
Knowledge Organiser for Science Spring 2
Knowledge Organiser for History Spring 2
Knowledge Organiser for DT Spring 2
Knowledge Organiser for Science Summer 1