Welcome to Toucan Class
Miss Chapman – Year 2 Class Teacher
Mrs Taylor – Year 2 Teaching Assistant
Miss Groves – Special Needs Assistant
2A singing their song about the Easter bunny! We wish you a lovely Easter break 🐥🐣 pic.twitter.com/UbCsZNW1NT
— Hendal Primary (@HendalPS) March 26, 2021
Curriculum Overview
Welcome to Year 2. Throughout the year your children will learn through the topics;
• We’re Going on Safari
• We Need a Hero
• Art Attack
• London’s Burning
• Cool Britannia
• Green Planet
Click the link below for more information including our exciting Topic Launches, Educational Visits and Finales.
Year 2 Long Term Curriculum Plan 2020 – 2021
You can also speak to your class teacher Miss Chapman for additional information regarding the National Curriculum for Year 2 or click on the link below.
https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/national-curriculum
Our Topic – Summer 1
This half term our topic is
“Cool Britannia.”
We will be learning all about the countries, capital cities and seas and oceans of the United Kingdom.
We will be learning about our monarch Queen Elizabeth II and her amazing life, as she celebrates her 95th birthday this year.
Please click on the link below to see our topic overview for this half term:
Cool Britannia – Summer 1 Overview
Things to Remember
PE Kit
Please bring PE kit on a Monday and leave it in school until Friday.
Children will take PE kit home on Friday to be washed.
Homework
Homework and spellings will be handed out on a Friday.
Please return homework books on a Wednesday.
Milk
Milk is available to children at a cost of £1.00 per week. Families who are in receipt of low income benefits will qualify for free milk for their child. To register and pay for milk online, please click on the following link; http://www.schoolmilkuk.co.uk/
School Dinners
Please see the School Dinners page or Mrs Brailsford in the school office for more information about our School dinners.
Reading at Hendal Primary School
Phonics: Your child will learn to read following the ‘Floppy Phonics Sounds and Letters’ Programme. This programme is designed to support the rigorous and systematic approach to teaching synthetic phonics. The programme offers opportunities for multi-sensory learning. Our caring teaching staff plan exciting lessons to meet the needs of all individual children.
Reading: Our phonics resources are fully integrated with our ‘Oxford Reading Tree’ scheme of books. These books include the well-known characters, storylines and illustrations of Mum, Dad, Biff, Chip, Kipper and Floppy the dog! Our reading books are organised into coloured bands based on the level of challenge and length of text. We have a wide selection of other books within the coloured bands to ensure children are exposed to a variety of texts with the intention of all children developing a love for reading that will ensure success in adult life.
Parent Partnerships
We welcome any opportunities for parents to share their skills and knowledge.
Please listen to your child read at home every day and record this in your child’s reading record.
Thank you for your support.
Home Learning
In case our year 2 bubble needs to close, you will find our year 2 home learning timetable and the resources needed for each lesson below .
Lessons will be taught on Microsoft Teams.
Please complete home learning work in pencil and in the exercise book that has been sent home and/or on the sheets provided for the tasks below.
Please send one email before 4 o’clock with photographs of all completed tasks for that day.
Thank you for your support.
Handwriting
Handwriting – Cursive handwriting booklet
Handwriting – Common exception words handwriting
Diamond Dash
Topaz – Counting in steps of 2, and 10 to the 10th number in the sequence
- Not timed
- All numbers in the sequence must be correct
Emerald – 2, 5 and 10 times-tables
- Not timed
- All answers must be correct
Pearl – 2, 5 and 10 times-tables
- Multiplication and division calculations
- Timed: 5 minutes
- All answers must be correct within the time
Ruby – 2, 3, 4, 5 and 8 times-tables
- Multiplication and division calculations
- Timed: 5 minutes
- All answers must be correct within the time
Sapphire -3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9 and 11 times-tables
- Multiplication and division calculations
- Timed: 6 minutes
- All answers must be correct within the time