Monksmead School

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Welcome to Year Two

 

Teacher : Miss Adler
TA: Mrs Fleetwood and Mrs Smith

 

After a long time away from school, the children have done so well settling in to Year 2 this last week. I am very excited to get to know the class and we’ve had a great start. We have lots of learning to do this year! I have written some key information below which I hope you will find useful. You can also find the class timetable on the website.

 

Reading

I will teach reading through our daily English lessons, class guided reading and phonic sessions. In addition, an adult will hear each child in the class read at least once a week.  Each child will be given a reading record and these will be checked when they have their individual reading time.

 

There will be a lot of work on phonics in the first term. ‘Sounding out’ should be the primary strategy used to read. Please try your best to read with your child every day, this will help to improve fluency and accuracy and hopefully be a lot of fun to do together.  When the children have read their books and it has been noted in their reading record, they will choose two new books to go home on their reading day.

 

Homework

Homework will be given out on a Thursday and is due back in on a Monday.  It will be related to work covered in class and is meant as a chance for the children to consolidate their learning.  Most weeks the work will be English and maths based, but on some occasions I may set work from other curriculum areas, such as topic or science.  If homework is not completed I will work with those children during their break time to help them complete the task set.  This work is in addition to regular reading at home.

 

PE

PE lessons will be on a Thursday and Friday every week this term.  Please make sure that your child has their PE kit (named) in school on both days.  Each child will need a pair of plimsolls or trainers for PE.  This year children’s swimming sessions will take place in the summer term.

 

Equipment

Please make sure that your child has a named water bottle in school so that they can keep hydrated during the day.  Due to hygiene reasons we do not provide cups for the children, so it is very important that they have their own water bottle. 

If you have any questions, please do get in contact.

 

Thank you,

Miss Adler

Year 2 Timetable Autumn 2020

Phonics and Reading

At Monksmead, we follow 'Letters and Sounds'.  This is a phonics resource published by the Department for Education and Skills in 2007. It aims to build children's speaking and listening skills in their own right as well as to prepare children for learning to read by developing their phonic knowledge and skills.

For reading, we use a scheme called Bug Club Phonics.  This scheme is aligned with the Letters and Sounds SSP (systematic synthetic phonics) programme and meets Department for Education guidance on choosing decodable books for systematic, synthetic phonics.

In Year 2 we learn to:

 

 

Reading

 

  • Secure the year group phonic expectations.
  • Recognise simple recurring literary language.
  • Read ahead to help with fluency and expression.
  • Comment on plot, setting & characters in familiar & unfamiliar stories.
  • Recount main themes and events.
  • Comment on structure of the text.
  • Use commas, question marks and exclamation marks to vary expression.
  • Read aloud with expression and intonation.
  • Recognise:

o   commas in lists

o   apostrophe of omission and possession (singular noun)

  • Identify past/present tense and why the writer has used a tense.
  • Use content and index to locate information 

Our phonic scheme is Letters and Sounds

Our reading scheme is Phonics Bug and Bug club from Pearson

 

Writing

 

  • Write different kinds of sentence: statement, question, exclamation, command.
  • Use expanded noun phrases to add description and specification.
  • Write using subordination (when, if, that, because) and co-ordination (or, and, but).
  • Correct and consistent use of present tense & past tense.
  • Correct use of verb tenses.
  • Write with correct and consistent use of:

o capital letters

o full stops

o question marks

o exclamation marks

  • Use commas in a list.
  • Use apostrophe to mark omission and singular possession in nouns.
  • Write under headings.
  • Write lower case letters correct size relative to one another.
  • Show evidence of diagonal and horizontal strokes to join handwriting.

 

Maths

 

  • Compare and order numbers up to 100 and use < > =.
  • Read and write all numbers to 100 in digits & words.
  • Say 10 more/less than any number to 100.
  • Count in steps of 2, 3 & 5 from zero and in 10s from any number (forwards and backwards).
  • Recall and use multiplication & division facts for 2, 5 & 10 tables.
  • Recall and use +/- facts to 20.
  • Derive and use related facts to 100.
  • Recognise place value of any 2-digit number.
  • Add & subtract:

o   2-digit nos & ones

o   2-digit nos & tens

o   Two 2-digit nos

o   Three 1-digit nos

  • Recognise and use inverse (+/-).
  • Calculate and write multiplication & division calculations using multiplication tables.
  • Recognise, find, name and write 1/3; 1/4; 2/4; 3/4.
  • Write and recognise equivalence of simple fractions.
  • Tell time to five minutes, incluing quarter past/to.
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