Year 2

Welcome to the Year 2 class page!

Teacher: Miss Price

Teaching Assistants: Mrs Chinn and Mr Whelan.

In Year 2, we aim to ensure your child reaches their full potential and will give them the support they need to reach this. Year 2 is an important year for our children as take the KS1 SATs in May, throughout the year we will be holding a range of workshops to ensure your child is prepared and will achieve their very best.

On this page, you will find a range of information regarding your child’s learning, including pictures of activities they have completed. When collecting your child, please check the door for any updates regarding workshops or reminders.

Key Information

PE – Every Monday and Friday, please ensure your child has their full PE kits in school.

Homework

Spellings – Sent on a Monday, tested on a Friday.

Number Bonds – Sent of a Friday, tested on Tuesday.

English & Maths – Sent every Friday, due in the following Tuesday.

If your child is unsure on their homework, please come and see me Monday to ensure they can hand it in for the Tuesday.

It is very important, you read with your child every night. To support you and your child reading, your child was provided with a bookmark with question stems to ensure they understand the texts they’re reading.

Home Learning

SUMMER TERM 2: Topic Overview.

In the attachment, there are some ideas for you to complete over the next few weeks at home. I have included some websites that you could use alongside the learning and will upload sheets to use over the next few weeks every Monday.

HOME LEARNING TASKS TO BE COMPLETED - SET BY MISS PRICE

SET ON 08/06/2020

Maths

White Rose Week 7 - Teaching Videos
Worksheets - Lesson 1, Lesson 2, Lesson 3 and Lesson 4.
Answers - Lesson 1, Lesson 2, Lesson 3 and Lesson 4.
Daily Arithmetic Questions - Complete the daily questions shown on each slide. You can write the answers on any sheet of paper if you can't access a printer.

English

Writing (continued from last week) - Rainbows
Reading - Horrid Henry Comprehension
Spellings - Homophones and near homophones.

Science - Life cycle of a plant.

Videos to support learning - BBC Bitesize
Worksheets to support - Plants knowledge organiser and written worksheet.

SET ON 15/06/2020

Maths

Shape revision - Teaching videos
Shape revision worksheets - Lesson 1, Lesson 2, Lesson 3 and Lesson 4.
Shape revision answers - Lesson 1, Lesson 2, Lesson 3 and Lesson 4.
Daily Arithmetic Questions - Complete the daily questions shown on each slide. You can write the answers on any sheet of paper if you can't access a printer.

English

Writing (2 weeks worth) - Superheroes
Spelling - Homophones and Conjunctions (joining words)
Reading - Florence Nightingale

SET ON 22/06/2020

Maths

Time Revision - Complete these questions at the beginning of each maths lesson. They are on a PowerPoint and include the answers.
Position/Direction revision - Videos/sites to support learning.
Positive/Direction worksheets - Lesson 1, Lesson 2, Lesson 3 & Lesson 4.
Position/Direction answers - Lesson 1, Lesson 2, Lesson 3 & Lesson 4.

English

Writing (continued from last week) - Superheroes.
Spellings - Time/months of the year
Reading - Micro-habitats question booklet & answers.

SET ON 29/06/2020

General

Home learning pack by Classroom secrets, contains a range of activities to support Maths and English - Parents Guidance/answers and Learning Booklet.
Time Capsule worksheet - Why not bury the worksheet with some of our favourite lock time items that you can dig up in years to come to remind you of this time.

Maths

Time revision - complete these questions at the beginning of each lesson. They are on the a PowerPoint and include the answers.
Measuring weight - Videos to support learning.
Measuring weight worksheets - Lesson 1, Lesson 2, Lesson 3 and Lesson 4.
Measuring weight answers - Lesson 1, Lesson 2, Lesson 3 and Lesson 4.

English

Spellings - Time/months of the year.
Writing - Desert Island Postcard activity sheet. Children to create their own postcard using the resources.
Writing - GPS test.
Reading - Inference revision booklet and answers.

Science

Let's look at water this week, we are extremely lucky to live in a country that has fresh running water, some countries do not have this. Have a go at reading through the PowerPoint with an adult and complete the investigation attached.

PowerPoint and Investigation worksheet.

SET ON 06/07/2020

General

A booklet of activities including Maths and English.

Maths

Measurements - Videos to support learning.
Measurement worksheets - Lesson 1, Lesson 2, Lesson 3 & Lesson 4.
Measurement answers - Lesson 1, Lesson 2, Lesson 3 & Lesson 4.

English

Spellings - Question and SPaG vocabulary.
Writing (two weeks) - The Quangle Wangle's Hat.

Science

Try these simple investigations in your own home. You're able to use equipment lying around at home. The investigations are differentiated by age - select the age your child fits into.

SET ON 13/07/2020

Maths

Time - Videos to support learning.
Time worksheets - Lesson 1, Lesson 2, Lesson 3 & Lesson 4.
Time answers - Lesson 1, Lesson 2, Lesson 3 & Lesson 4.

English

Spellings - Practice the Year 2 common exception words over the summer. Do you know them all ready for Year 3?
Writing (continued from last week) - The Quangle Wangle's hat.
Reading - Sequencing revision booklet and answers.

Summer Activities

English activity booklet and answers - Transitioning from Year 2 to Year 3.
Maths activity booklet and answers - Transitioning from Year 2 to Year 3.

Teachers messages - Don't forget to check out our video messages to you all, we miss you all very much! :)

Useful links to support learning in Year 2:

Read about some of the things we've been getting up to:

Curriculum Overview

LEARNING RESOURCES to use at HOME

Class teachers may set additional tasks for your children to complete through the following links alongside the CGP books and reading everyday in the event of a shutdown for the Corona Virus or self isolation of your child. Some of these links have also been added as class/key stage specific. You can also view many more resources and projects on our Home Learning Page. We also encourage you to share some of your child's home learning through twitter, our handle is @stannespri.

Times Table Rock Stars - Pupils from Y2 - Y6 should have their logins at the front of their planner. Homework tasks will be set.
My Maths - Usernames and Passwords were given out.
Year 2 Challenges courtesy of Third Space Learning - Recall and use multiplication and division facts for the 2,5 and 10 multiplication tables, including odd and even numbers.
White Rose Maths Home Learning For Year 2
KS1 Keeping Your Teeth Healthy Experiment and Interactive Story - PowerPoint needed

Gallery

Learning how the children lived during medieval times at Warwick Castle.

What a great day at Warwick Castle!

We used Modroc to make our fairy castles sturdy.

Working hard to get our fairy castles finished

We enjoyed dressing in traditional South Asian clothing for International Day.

Have you ever played a Dhol? We had great fun learning!

St Anne's Catholic Primary School

Year 2

Key Information

Home Learning

LEARNING RESOURCES to use at HOME

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