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Barley Hill Primary School

Barley Hill Primary School
  1. Year Groups
  2. Year 2

Welcome to Year Two 2024 - 2025

Hamsters Hedgehogs Mice

Miss Munro - Team Leader

 

Miss Walker (Thursday)

Mrs Metcalf (Mon- Wed)

 

Ms Healy   (Thurs, Fri)

 

 Miss Walker (Mon, Tues, Fri)

 

Mrs Mayling (Wed, Thurs)

 

Our wonderful TA team consists of:

Mrs Manning, Mrs Lupton and Mrs Johnstone. 

Joining Year Two in 2024-25?

Please see our Welcome PowerPoint below: 

Welcome to Year Two 2024-25.pptx

 

Term 2 

Term 1

Be Kind, Be Brilliant

 

Our school day:

Doors open and the day starts at 8.45am with Early Morning Learning

8.55am Register

9am Phonics

9.25 English

10.15 Snack

10.25 Break

10.40 Maths

11.35 Reading

12.00 Lunch

1.00pm Story

1.15pm Science/Topic

2pm Daily Mile

2.15pm Topic

3pm Singing/games/story

3.15pm Home time

 

*Topic may include History, Geography, Art, D&T, Music, RE, PSHE, Forest School and PE.

 

On a Thursday the children will have outdoor PE. 

On a Friday the children will have indoor PE. 

On a Friday the children will visit the school library.

Every other term, the children will attend Forest School for 1 hour a week. 

 

How to help at home

Below is information to support your child's learning and there are some links to crib sheets which we have created to help with how we teach Maths, Reading and Writing at school. If you need any further information, please speak to your class teacher. We will update this page with further information as the year progresses. 

 

Maths

We will begin the year by recapping our place value knowledge of numbers to 100. To help support your child with this, you can practise counting forwards and backwards to 100 from different given numbers. You could also practise making numbers to 100, by grouping sets of objects into tens and ones. Eg- 23= 2 lots of 10 objects plus 3 extra ones. 

 

We encourage the children to play 5 minutes of Numbots per week which will help with their quick recall of number facts. 

 

 In Year 2 we learn the 2, 3, 5 and 10 times tables.  You can find these here: Year 2 times tables 2, 3, 5 and 10.pdf

Reading and Writing

For spelling and reading, the children need to know how to read and spell the Year One and Year Two common exception words.

They can be found here: 

Year 1 common exception words.pdf

Year 2 common exception words.pdf

Every child will be taught how to form their letters using cursive handwriting. 

This is great to practise at home and you can use the sheet here: 

Handwriting practise.pdf

 

How to teach Reading in Year 2 ii.docx - this document includes questions to ask your child when reading at home to improve understanding.

Please see quality books to read at home: https://images.scholastic.co.uk/assets/a/e9/cb/pie-corbett-yr2-1393273.pdf

Recommended reads for Year Two children - Recommended Books to Read for year two.docx

Phonics

We follow the Sounds-Write phonics scheme and will continue to teach the children the extended code which they began learning in Year 1. 

Please take a look at the Sounds Write section on our website, which includes links to a series of videos about how to help with reading at home.

Sounds Write intial code mat.docx

Homework

Reading is the most important activity you can do at home with your child. Please try to read for 10 minutes each day, but at least three times a week. This will help your child to learn new vocabulary, read fluently and hopefully develop a love for books.

We set 'Over and Above tasks' for the children to complete if you wish. Please see the Parents- Homework section of our website.

 

If you have any queries or questions, please don't hesitate to speak to your child's class teacher at the end of the school day.