Year 2
Welcome to Term 1
Term 1 Welcome to Year 2! We hope you have all had a wonderful summer break. The Year 2 team are looking forward to teaching your wonderful children this year. We look forward to meeting you at our ‘Meet the Teacher’ event this week and answering any questions you may have. Please keep an eye on our year 2 webpage for updates. Below you will find more information about the exciting learning that we have to look forward to this term. *Reminders* We will be Athletes on Wednesday afternoons and Thursday mornings so please remember your kits! Water bottles– Please remember to provide a bottle of water each day.. If you require a longer conversation, please arrange an appointment at the school office to speak to us. Many thanks, Mrs Burtonshaw and Ms Balmer.
Meet the Teacher: 2026-27 Y2 Meet the Teacher
Home Learning
In line with our home learning policy, all learning will continue to be based upon the following activities: Daily reading and weekly spellings. Spellings will be sent home at the beginning of each term and can be found online or in your child’s book bag. Raffle tickets will be given for every 5 reads that are recorded in records
Super Skills
Term 1 – Communication
Dates for the Diary
Monday 7th September – Term 1 Begins
Wednesday 9th September – Meet the Teacher 3.15pm in Y2 classroom—Yearly expectations.
Thursday 1st October – Harvest at St Edyth’s
Monday 5th October – Cycle To School Week
Monday 12th October – Black History Month
Thursday 22nd October— Y2 Enquiry Exhibition in the Year 2 classroom 3.00-3.15pm
Curriculum Letters
Please download and print as required.
Gallery
Term 1 – Maths
In Maths we have been working hard to add and use number bonds to support us.
Term 1 – Scientists
This term, Year 2 have been working as young scientist to answer our enquiry question: What can our classroom be made of?
Our focus has been on identifying and classifying materials. The children have explored the classroom to identify what everyday objects are made from, including wood, plastic. Metal, glass and fabric. They have sorted and classified materials into groups based on their properties, using scientific vocabulary like hard, soft, smooth, waterproof and transparent. We have been asking questions such as: Which things are made from more than one material? Can we group objects in more than one way?
Term 1 – Authors Book Talk and Role Play
This term we have been enjoying reading Little Red and the very hungry lion. We have been engaging in book talk lessons every week and hot seating the characters. We have been also working on our orally skills and using a range of sentence stems.
Term 1 – Maths
This week in maths, we have been learning how to partition 2-digit numbers into tens and ones. Partitioning helps children to understand what each digit in a number represents and develops a strong understanding of place value. We support children to develop this understanding through both concrete and abstract representations. Children first use practical resources, such as Dienes/base-ten equipment, to physically build numbers and separate them into tens and ones. This gives children a visual and hands-on understanding of place value before moving towards more abstract representations, such as part-whole models, drawings and number sentences.
