Year 2

A Day in Year Two

8:50 – 9:00 Soft start

The children will be greeted by the teachers. After putting their belongings in the cloakroom the children will choose a checking in activity such as mindful colouring or journaling. They will be encouraged to notice how they are feeling and share any thoughts. This time will help to prepare the children for the school day.

9:00 - Register & Lunch Orders

9:00  –  9:15 Independent Reading/Reading for Pleasure - During this time teachers will listen to individual children read and write a comment in their Reading Record. The children will use this time to change their class library book.

9:15  - 9:50 - Phonics or Reading Comprehension

9:50 - 10:30 - English

10:30 – 10:45 - Morning break (Fruit provided)

10:45 – 11:45 - Maths

11:45 – 12:45 - Lunch

12:45 – 2:15 - Afternoon lessons e.g. History, Geography, Science, Religious Education, Art, Music, P.S.H.E., Computing, P.E., Design Technology, Spelling, Handwriting, Reading Comprehension. Daily story time

2:15 – 2:30 - Afternoon break (Children can bring a healthy snack to school)

2:30 – 3:25 - Afternoon lessons continued

3:30 – Home time

Notices and Dates

Punctuality

In the morning, if your child’s door is closed or you arrive late, please take them to the office to be signed in.

Healthy Snacks/Drinks

Children are provided with fresh fruit or vegetables for their morning snack and can bring one healthy snack for afternoon play (no nuts, chocolate or sweets please).

Please ensure that your child has a refillable drinks bottle in school every day for water only. If you would like you child to have milk you can pay for milk online at Cool Milk (link below). 

https://www.coolmilk.com

Information

We will provide dates for trips, special events, and parent’s evenings through ParentMail. We will also send out the curriculum overview for each half term and it is attached to this class page. This useful document tells you what the children will be learning each half term.

You can also find links to games and resources on this class page.

Homework

All our homework is set online on Google Classroom, it will appear in a new topic each Friday afternoon at 3:30 pm and is to be completed by 8:30am the following Wednesday.

Spellings

Each week the children will receive a list of 5 or 10 spellings to be practised at home. The spellings will be introduced in class and the children will be given an opportunity to discuss the meanings of the words and to have an initial practise using that week's spelling practise strategy. After they have been introduced to the spellings the chidlren are expected to practise them at home as part of their weekly homework.

Each class will have a weekly spelling test on Wednesdays and the teacher will let you know how your child got on in the test.

Maths

Our Maths homework during the Autumn term is using the website Numbots.

Numbots helps to develop mental maths. It does this by increasing the speed at which your child can recall number bonds and addition and subtraction facts in a fun and engaging way.

In the Spring term, after the children have learned about multiplication and division the children will be introduced to the website Times Table Rockstars and their weekly homework will be to practise their 2, 5 and 10 times tables. We will provide more information about this website nearer the time. Links for both websites can be found below.

Sometimes we will send out optional additional Maths tasks that are linked to the current learning. These are available to all families who would like to do some additional Maths at home but are completely optional.

If you have any questions regarding homework, maths websites or your Google Classroom account please contact us on the Year Two email at;

year2@lionel.hounslow.sch.uk

Reading

Your support in reading at home every day is invaluable in developing your child’s fluency and understanding. Daily reading is essential and we expect children to be reading with a parent/carer for at least 10 minutes each day. The impact this has on your child's reading fluency and confidence is huge!

Please sign your child’s reading record everyday when you listen to them read. In the morning we look in the children's reading records to check they have read at home.

In Year 2 the children become fluent readers and our teaching increasingly becomes focused on reading comprehension. To support your child’s understanding of the book they are reading ask them questions such as - Who? What? When? Where? How? Why?

P.E.

Your child must have a full P.E. kit to participate in lessons.

P.E. days are:

Blackberry – Monday and Thursday

Blueberry – Wednesday and Friday

Bramble – Wednesday and Thursday

School Ethos & Core Values

As a school, we all strive to be Ready, Respectful and Safe and these expectations permeate our day to day teaching and learning. 

Every half term we focus on one of our six core values and celebrate examples of them!

Our school core values are;

Courage

Kindness

Collaboration

Perseverance

Fairness

Thankfulness

Thank you for taking the time to read this page. If you have any further questions please do ask one of the Year 2 Team who will be happy to help.