• Home Learning

A very warm welcome to Year 2 and our team, myself - Miss Millington, and Mrs Cox and Mrs Callow, our fabulous Teaching Assistants

Summer Term 2

As we enter our final half term of the academic year, there are so many fun things to look forward to starting with our Quidditch Day, Sports Day and Bollington Go Green art project all in the first week back. 

In maths, we will continue to work on learning how to tell the time. The children have all made a great start with this, and each one will have a turn of our class watch in order to help them consolidate their learning with this important life skill.

In Literacy, we will explore the beautifully written and illustrated book, The Night Gardener by The Fan Brothers. This links nicely with our science topic, Plant Based Materials, and will inspire the children to write a diary entry. 

In geography, we continue developing our map skills, focusing on symbols and positional and locational language. We will use our maps to follow a route to a local feature so that the children can put them to the test. 

We remain as active as ever here at Dean Valley. The children will be learning dodging and jumping skills during our indoor and outdoor PE lessons. 

Important information:

Tuesday

• Indoor PE - kit to remain in school: 

T-Shirt (Red or White)

Shorts (Black)

Joggers (Black)

School jumper/fleece (can be with or without school logo. No branded sportswear/hoodies/football kit)

Plimsolls/Pumps

Thursday

• Outdoor PE - kit to be brought in each week:

Plain white/red t-shirt, jumper (school jumper or Dean Valley fleece) and black tracksuit trousers are required for winter outdoor Games Lessons.

Trainers

• Reading books changed

Friday

• Online homework to be completed
• Forest school - 13.06.25 and 04.07.25

Homework

TT Rockstars - I advise 7 games a week, 1 per day or in a chunk. Key focus for Year 2 are the 2s, 5s, and 10s  - use the Jammin feature and explore the settings, you can set to just multiplication. 

Numbots - aim for 10mins across the week either in one session or a split throughout the week. 

Spelling Shed - 7 games to be completed per week on the focus spelling of the week - start on easy and progress if you feel your child is confident with this. 

Spellings - sent home on a Monday ready for our spelling test on a Friday. 

*Online homework to be set each Friday and completed for the following Friday. If you have any problem logging in, please let me know. 

Useful information:

Spelling 

Children are learning their Year 1 and 2 Common Exception Words as well as the red words from their RWI group. 

t-l-54347-common-exception-words-years-1-and-2-alphabetical-word-mat-english.pdf (twinkl.co.uk)

We also use the high frequency words: 

t-l-5995-200-high-frequency-words-word-mat_ver_3.pdf (twinkl.co.uk)

Spelling techniques: 

t-l-52830-strategies-for-learning-spellings-activity-sheet_ver_1.pdf (twinkl.co.uk)

Useful spelling games: Yr 2 common exception words - Teaching resources (wordwall.net) 

Reading 

Thursday is our book change day. Please ensure your child has their book with them each day as we do have people reading with the children. 

Here is a wonderful website with book recommendations for all year groups. 

If you have any queries, please do not hesistate to contact me on our class email: class2@deanvalley.cheshire.sch.uk

Kind regards, 

Miss Millington