• Numeracy

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

I am excited to be working with the children and can't wait for the year ahead and all of the amazing opportunities it will bring for our class. 

We start our year with a thrilling geography topic, 'Why is Our World Wonderful?'. We will explore the amazing world that we live in and understand what makes it so majestic. Alongside this, our literacy focus will be the book, Here We Are by Oliver Jeffers. A beautifully written and illustrated book that tours the land, sea, sky, and all of the things that inhabit the Earth. 

In maths we start by looking at Place Value as well as working hard to secure fundamental times tables knowledge. 

Important information:

Tuesday  - Indoor PE

Thursday - Outdoor PE

                  Reading books changed

Friday - Forest School every third week commencing 6/9

             Online homework to be completed

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. 

*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