Year 2 2024 - 2025

Welcome to Year 2

Hello and a very warm welcome to Year 2!  The teacher in year 2 is Mrs Horridge with our wonderful TAs Miss Dawson and Mrs Greendwood .  We are all really excited to be in class this year and have lots of lovely activities and trips planned across the year to look forward to.

Routines of the day

Our school day starts at 8.55am with doors open from 8.45am, children will begin their day with a short morning activity of either maths of english. Our morning break is from 10.20am to 10.35am, where children can bring either a healthy snack such as fruit from home or toast can be paid for each term. If you wish for your child to have toast at morning play, please pay for this on ParentPay. Children are encouraged to bring a labelled water bottle to school each day, which they have access to across the day. In the afternoon, milk is available if paid for on Cool Milk. If you want any information regarding this, please contact the school office. All children are offered fruit in the afternoon on a daily basis which is provided by school. Our day ends at 3.25pm, where children will be dissmissed each day by a member of our class team or will be taken to after school clubs or FUNDA where required. We ask that if your child is being collected by a someone other than a known adult, that you inform a member of the class team or the school office as soon as possible. 

Please ensure that your child brings their reading pack to school daily.  A good place for it to live when they are at home is in their book bag. Please read at home daily to help support their fluency and understanding.  Children change their reading book each Monday. Please also ensure that they have appropriate outerwear each day (e.g a coat or jacket) depending on the weather. 

PE

Year 2's PE days are Thursday and Friday each week. Please ensure that your child attends school in their PE kit on these days; this includes appropriate footwear. On other days please ensure that you child wears the appropriate school uniform; including school shoes. If your child attends a sports club, they may also wear PE kit on this day. 

Homework

Homework will be sent home weekly and will have a focus of either English or Maths. Please also encourage your child to access apps including TT Rockstars and Numbots across the week, where access is possible. Spellings will be placed into reading records weekly and tested each thursday. Please support your child to learn these spellings, as they will be a combination of common year 2 exception words and words around a theme; typically linked to our English focus. 

Get in touch

Please feel free to contact me at school by emailing myself, [email protected] . Please be mindful that it may take 5-7 working days to get a response; however, if your question needs a quick response, it may be better to contact the school office on 01706 874447. 

Useful Websites...

Timestables Rockstars (Login details in your child's reading record) - https://ttrockstars.com/

Numbots (Login details in your child's reading record) - https://numbots.com/

Oxford Owls - lots of reading and spelling activities ( Login:  Username - BritanniaY2    Password - BritanniaY2) - https://www.oxfordowl.co.uk/login?active-tab=students

BBC Bitesize - lots of interesting videos and information for learning across the curriculum - https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/levels/z3g4d2