St Paul's and All Hallows' C of E School

Welcome to Year 2

St Francis Class

Class Teacher: Miss Groom

PE kits need to be brought to school every Monday and taken home and washed on a Friday. That way kits will always be available when they are needed.

Spellings are given every Friday. Please learn these for a test the following Friday. 

Reading books are changed weekly.  Please read with your child each night and ensure reading books are always in your child’s book bag when they come to school.

Maths

The main focus at the beginning of Year 2 in Maths we will be assessing your child's knowledge of their numbers. They need to be secure with their 2's, 5's and 10's times tables and they also need to be able to count and write numbers to 100. 

Guided Reading

We now take part in Guided Reading, with this your children are in smaller groups and they will take part in different activities daily. Examples of theses include:

Reading with Teacher

Reading with TA

Free reading

Comprehension

Listening station

Phonics activities

English

In English we will be focusing on punctuation and learning how to include these in our writing.

Capital letters     - ABC

Full Stops  -     .

Exclamation Marks  -    !

Question Marks    -   ?

Commas     -     ,

Speech Marks  -   "        "

IPC 

Our Topic this term is 'A day in the life!'

During this topic we will learn and think about what we want to be when we grow up. As well as this we will also look at lots of different and exciting jobs, remembering to celebrate the things we can do now – the hobbies and interests that we enjoy, and the learning we do at school to help us achieve our goals.

Science

In science our topic this term is Materials.

We will learn about different types of materials and their properties. As well as this we will do lots of investigations and experiments. 

Learning Links

The below website links are useful websites that the children can use at home to support their learning.