Y2 Home Learning

Year 2 2020 - 2021

Welcome to Year 2

This vital year marks the end of Key Stage One. The children are now encouraged to work more independently in preparation for transition into Key Stage 2.

Scroll down to the bottom of this page to find the link to the children's harvest performance.

Meet the team…

Miss Lewis - Y2LM Class teacher (Thursday-Friday) & Director of Maths for the Rose Learning Trust and Maths Lead SLE in Doncaster Schools

Mrs Millar – Y2LM Class teacher (Monday- Wednesday), Key Stage 1 Lead

Mrs Scanlon – Y2SV Class teacher (Monday-Wednesday) Chartered teacher

Mrs Vickers - Y2SV Class teacher (Wednesday-Friday) Chartered teacher

Please find the Year 2 Meet the Teacher powerpoint below.

Year 2 Meet the Teacher

A typical day in Year 2

8.40 Registration and PSHE (Weekend diary on Mondays)

9.00 – 10.00 Maths

10.00 – 10.15 Playtime

10.15 – 11.15 Phonics

11:15 – 11.40 Spelling/ Maths Meeting

11.40 – 12:25 Lunchtime

12:25-12:40 Handwriting

12:40-12:45 Speed sounds

12:45-2:00 - Cornerstones/ Writing/ PE

2:00-2:15 Playtime

2:15-2:45 Storytime

Cornerstones

Our Cornerstones topic for Autumn Term 2 is 'Movers and Shakers'. This project teaches children about historically significant people who have had a major impact on the world. They will learn to use timelines, stories and historical sources to find out about the people featured and use historical models to explore their significance.

Our Cornerstones topic for Autumn Term 1 was 'Wriggle and Crawl'. The children observed the lifecycle of a butterfly, researched all about the honey bee and independently completed a report about them, completed a mini beast hunt to see what they could find on the school grounds, along with many other activities. Keep your eye on the gallery - pictures to follow soon.

Homework

Maths with Parents

The Maths with Parents programme is not only perfectly in line with Maths lessons in school but it is a really easy programme to follow each week. The initial registration is the only part that is a little bit complicated (some pupils were registered last year, others were not).

Click the link to log into Maths with Parents

Spellings (updated 22/10/20)

All children (who were in school) have been retested on the Y1 words and brought them home on Monday. Please practise the words they do not know over the half term. If your child knows all the Y1 words please practise the Y2 words as some children will be tested on these once we are back at school.

Year 1 Common Exception Words

Year 2 Common Exception Words

Phonics

During the 2nd part of the Autumn Term, the children will be completing a phonics screen. They are working so hard on their phonemes and word reading in school. In the password protected homework section above you will find many speed sound lessons for your child to practise their sounds. These will be updated each week.

Reading

Read Write Inc. Phonics: Blue Set 6 Storybook 4 King Of The Birds Every Monday the children will bring home the previous week's phonics book. It is a book they are familiar with so gives them the opportunity to show the skills they have been learning throughout the week. Please read the book each night and return to school on a Friday.