Year 2

Welcome to Year 2

Working Together To Be The Best We Can Be

The Year 2 team would like to welcome you to our Year 2 page.

Here you will find lots of information about all of the fun things Class 4 and Class 5 will be learning.

We will also share some useful information so you can support your child at home. 

Meet the Teaching Team

Mrs. Crew, Mrs. Hays and Mr. Goodall are extremely excited to be the teachers in Year 2 this year

supported by Mrs. Priestley, Mrs. Groves, Miss. Chambers and Miss. Haywood. 

Reading

Reading is at the heart of our Hetts Lane curriculum and we want every child to become successful, confident and fluent readers.

Each week, every child will read their Rhino Readers, decodable book at least 3 times a week with an adult in school. They will then bring home a further decodable book to read to you at home. Your child will also bring home a story book of their choosing to share.

It is really important that you read with your child at home. Please read 4 times a week and complete the weekly reading challenge task. Record in your child’s reading log to show when you have read with your child. They will be rewarded with a certificate for showing commitment to reading at the end of every half term. We also reward 2 star readers every week. These are children who have worked hard and tried their best to show improvement.

We aspire to develop a love of reading so everyday all children will listen to and engage with a story at the end of the day.  Children will also be introduced to an author each half term and have access to our recommended reads to expand their reading experiences and exposure to rich vocabulary and a variety of texts.

For further information about our reading curriculum, please see our Curriculum page - English. 

Phonics

At Hetts Lane we use Twinkl phonics as our Systematic, Synthetic Phonics Programme (SSP).

Everyday your child will develop their phonic skills through the stories and adventures of Kit, Sam and the Twinkl phonics family. This is integrated with games, activities and tasks which allows the children regular practise of the core skills of blending and segmenting to enable them to read and write.

We also use Rhino Readers books which are exactly aligned to the Twinkl phonic phases. This keeps a focus on phonics and supports children’s early decoding skills as they move through each level of phonics. Twinkl phonics based activities are sent home each week to help consolidate what has been learnt in school.

Please see the our Curriculum page - Phonics for further information.

Spring Term 2023

During the first half term our learning journey will continue under the heading of 'Heroes and Heroines' with a particular focus on Traditional Tales linking to Art.  We will be also naming the countries of the UK and their respective capital cities in Geography.

The second half term will continue under the same heading of 'Heroes and Heroines' but with a focus on the coast developing our Geographical knowledge.  We will also be learning about Grace Darling in History using a range of resources including ICT to find out about her impact on the development of the modern day RNLI.  As the weather improves our Science learning will be to explore different habitats including the school garden and the ecosystems that are linked to them.

 Below is an overview of what we are learning for each half term so you can support your child at home.

You can click on the link below to download the document.

Starry Night by Vincent Van Gogh

As part of our learning in Art we painted 'Starry Night' by Vincent Van Gogh.  We mixed different shades of blue to paint the background and then used oil pastels to add the detail. 

Designing a peg bag

During our learning in History we looked at how wash day had changed over time.  We then went on to design and make a peg bag sewing the pieces together to complete our final product.

Autumn Term 2022

Our learning journey will continue under the heading of 'There's No Place Like Home' with a particular focus on History and clothing and washdays in the past.

We will be using computing to research washdays from the past and compare this to washing we know and use now. We will link this to science by comparing the materials and we will use a type of material to design and create a washbag.

 Below is an overview of what we are learning for each half term so you can support your child at home.

You can click on the link below to download the document.

Supporting Learning at Home

Autumn Term 2021

This term our learning journey will be called 'There's No Place Like Home' 

We can't wait to meet the new year two children and see how much they have grown over the summer! 

The first three weeks we will be making sure we build positive relationships with the children, ensuring they are happy, settled and excited to come to school each day. Remember your water bottle and bring your super smile. 

Below is an overview of what we are learning for the first half term so you can support your child at home. You can click on the link below to download the document. 

Click on the picture below to listen to the story. We have been

using this story as a focus for our narrative writing.

After you have listened to the story, think about the following questions to help you understand the story.

Which friend did Claire meet at the start of the story?

What did Claire say to Abigail about how she hurt her knee?

Which unusual character did Claire say she met after the snake?

Why do you think Claire was telling her friends very different tales about how she hurt her knee? 

How do you think Claire's friends felt after Claire told them how she hurt her knee?

How did Claire really hurt her knee?