Welcome to Year 2

The adults working in Year 2 are:

Class Teacher - Miss Hickens

Teaching Assistants: Mrs Skinner and Miss Foster

PPA Cover Teacher: Mrs Phillips

Reading

Reading is such a key part of the KS1 curriculum and we truly value your time and support with home learning in this area.  Children will bring home a school reading book matched closely to their decoding level.  

Listening to your child read is such an important part of our partnership, because it helps them to: improve their recognition of sounds, ability to segment and blend, become more fluent and read aloud with intonation.

Please listen to your child read at least three times a week and then fill in an entry of their reading record.

Spelling and Handwriting 

We will be teaching spelling rules every day in school using, Read Write Inc Spelling, for the full academic year.  

We will also be teaching Handwriting sessions every day in school using Letter-join.  There are some superb resources/games that your child can access via a tablet at home.  Their login details for this in their reading record book.

PE

Children should bring their named PE kit to school, in a bag, on Mondays to make sure they have it, when needed. Your child must be able to remove earrings by themselves for PE lessons.

Y2 have PE every Tuesday and they will have a second PE lesson every other Friday too.

Seesaw

We will be continuing to use Seesaw again this year for parents to be able to view some of the work that children have been completing during lesson time. Seesaw will also be used to allow teachers and parents to communicate more easily.  If you send a message on Seesaw, please be mindful that it may not be seen during the day, as staff will be teaching so urgent messages should be sent via the school office.

Your child's Seesaw login can be found in their reading record book.

Please let school know if you are struggling to connect to Seesaw so we can help you with this.

Uniform – Could you please make sure all uniform and coats are named clearly to help the children look after their own things. If it has a name in and gets misplaced it will eventually make it’s way back to you, if not it may not.

 Snack – Fresh fruit is available for the children each day, however, children can bring their own healthy snacks to school for break time. They are allowed to bring a ‘treat’ on Fridays.