Year 2

Welcome to Year 2!

Class 2B
Mrs Booth Mrs Beeley	Class Teacher Tuesday - Friday Class Teacher Mondays
Class 2C
Mrs Cunnelly	Class Teacher

Our Teaching assistants:

Mrs Birch
Miss Jones
Miss McHugh
Miss Pollitt
Mrs Spencer

P.E.

2B - Outdoor/indoor (Thursday)

2C - Outdoor/indoor (Friday)

Our PE kit consists of black shorts, white t shirt, trainers for outdoor PE and long jogging bottoms might be worn when it is cold outside for our PE lesson. If your child wears earrings, they must either be removed on PE days or the children will be supervised putting microtape over them.

Reading

Learning to read is the most important thing your child will learn at our school. Everything else depends on it, so we put as much energy as we possibly can into making sure that every single child learns to read as quickly as possible.

We want your child to love reading – and to want to read for themselves. This is why we put our efforts into making sure they develop a love of books as well as simply learning to read.

How will my child be taught to read?

At Meanwood Primary, we follow the RWI phonics programme. We start by teaching phonics to the children in the Reception class. This means that they learn how to ‘read’ the sounds in words and how those sounds can be written down. This is essential for reading, but it also helps children learn to spell well. We teach the children simple ways of remembering these sounds and letters. Ask them to show you what these are.

The children also practise reading (and spelling) what we call ‘tricky words’, such as ‘once,’ ‘have,’ ‘said’ and ‘where’.

The children practise their reading with books that match the phonics and the ‘tricky words’ they know. They start thinking that they can read and this does wonders for their confidence.

The teachers read to the children, too, so the children get to know all sorts of stories, poetry and information books. They learn many more words this way and it also helps their writing.

What reading books will my child be given to read at home?

Your child will be given 3 reading books each week to read at home. These will consist of a decodable RWI ‘Book Bag Book’ which is colour banded to match your child’s appropriate level; a paper copy of the RWI book that your child is reading in their RWI group with their teacher and a class library book to share and read for pleasure.

Reading books will be changed once a week by your child’s class teacher every Friday. Please ensure that your child reads for at least 10 minutes every night and brings their reading books and reading record to school every day signed. Your child will only be a reading star if their reading record has been signed at least 3 times each week.

Children's language development and parenting advice - BBC Tiny Happy People

You may find some of the following websites useful:

Tiny Happy People from the BBC has some great top tips for communicationg with your child and supporting their development.

Useful website links to aid our learning:

English – General

Phonics Play	Phonics Bloom
BBC Phonics	Purple Mash

English – Reading and Comprehension

BBC Bitesize

BBC Learning Zone

Accelerated Reader

MyON

English – Writing

BBC Schools	BBC Learning	BBC Bitesize
BBC – Stories	Reading zone – stories	Teach It – Captions
BBC – Poetry	Josies Poems

English – Spelling and Grammar

Topmarks

Letters and Sounds

ICT games

General Maths

Number Gym	Oxford Owl	Crickweb
BBC Schools	BBC Number jumbler

Maths – Time

Primary Homework

BBC Education

Crickweb

Maths – Shape and Space

Crickweb

BBC Bitesize

Science

BBC Bitesize	TopMarks	Crickweb
Science Kids	Weather Kids	Science Games	Science Sparks
STEM	Outstanding Science	NASA Kids	Simple Machines
Science Fun	Fun Experiments for Kids	Energy Kids