Year 2 2025 - 2026

There are 3 classes in Year 2 this year: 2B, 2D and 2M.

2B - Miss Browning, Ms Molla and Ms Hussain/Ms Toft

2D - Miss Kirwan and Ms Abdi/Ms Ahmed

2M - Mrs Higham and Ms Toft/Ms Hussain

Summer 2 Focus

This half-term we are covering the following topics:

Phonics: We will continue to revisit and apply our sounds to read new words, building on our knowledge from Year 1.
Reading: We will widen our reading skills by exploring a range of texts and beginning to learn and apply DERIC skills.
Writing: We will be writing innovated stories and non-chronological reports.
Maths: Fractions, Money and telling the time to o'clock, half past, quarter past and quarter to the hour.
Science: Living things and their habitat
History: Children in the Victorian Era
DT: Creating finger puppets, learning about textiles
PE: Gymnastics and Outdoor games
RE: Belonging to a faith and community (weddings)
PSHE/Rights: How do we recognise our feelings?

We will also continue to learn a different Right each week as well as listening to a piece of music each week.

2B- Thursday and Friday

2D- Wednesday and Thursday

2M- Tuesday and Wednesday

Reading books: Please bring your book bag in every day to be read with an adult in school. Books will be changed each Monday. Your child will recieve a colour coded book for their level of indepedent reading as well as a reading for pleasure book to read with an adult.
Reading records: Your child will receive a reading record to log the books they are given and to share the amazing reading they have been doing at home. Please also bring your reading record in to be checked by your class teacher weekly.
Phonics packs: Phonics books will be changed by your childs Phonics teacher each week.
Please bring a reusable water bottle to have in class every day, especially as the weather gets hotter during this half term!

If you ever have a concern please feel free to email your child's class teacher to arrange a chat.

Spellings within reading record to practise
Reading and Phonics books to be read daily
- Check out our Year group blog page for weekly oracy based homework questions!

Useful links

https://www.topmarks.co.uk/maths-games/hit-the-button