• 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 1

The spring term went by in a flash and during that time, the children have progressed so much. Not only academically, but socially and emotionally too. They are building resilience and independence which I know will continue throughout the rest of the year.

We have lots of thrilling learning opportunities ahead and during history, the children will use photographs from the 1940s and beyond, to explore how food has changed over the decades. I think they'll be surprised to learn what school dinners used to be like and how influences from other countries have helped to increase the choice of food that is now available. This will also provide inspiration for our Design and Technology topic where we will learn all about the food groups, how to compose a healthy meal, and where to source local ingredients from. I can't wait to see what the children design and create!

In Literacy, we start by reading the book, Where my Wellies Take Me by Claire and Michael Morpurgo. Magnificently illustrated, this book is part poetry and part scrapbook, and follows the journey of a girl called Pippa as she explores the world around her. Something we will do when we go on our very own welly walk!

In science, we will learn the life cycle of a plant. Through hands-on activities and careful observations, we will investigate what seeds needs to grow successfully and which variables can impact this.

We remain as active as ever here at Dean Valley. The children will be learning racket skills during outdoor PE sessions and during indoor PE, they will be creating motifs and sequences in our dance 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 - 28.02.25 and 21.03.25

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