Year 2 2026 - 2027

Welcome to Year 2!

Meet the Year 2 Team! There are three classes in Year 2 this year:

2B - Miss Browning and Ms Omama 2D - Miss Dolden and Ms Abdi/Ms Ahmed 2EK - Miss Westerman/Mrs Kazi and Miss Hoey

Miss Ennis-Khan has now started her maternity leave. We are delighted to welcome Miss Westerman back from maternity leave. She will taking over 2EK alongisde Mrs Kazi, who already knows the children well, having worked with many of them previously and taught the class this year.

Autumn 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 continuing to learn and apply DERIC skills.
Writing: We will be writing an innovated story of Where The Wild Things Are
Maths: Addition and subtraction of two-digit numbers and then onto multiplication
Science: Which material is the most suitable for a superhero cape? Experiments.
History: Why was the Great Fire of London so significant?
Art: Abstract art focusing on Alma Thomas
PE: Dance and Outdoor games
RE: What can we learn from sacred book? (Torah focus)
PSHE/Rights: What is bullying?

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

PE Days

2B - Indoor PE Tuesday/ Outdoor games Wednesday

2D - Indoor PE Wednesday/ Outdoor games Tuesday

2EK - Indoor PE Wednesday/ Outdoor games Monday

Important messages

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, a phonics book as well as a reading for pleasure book to read with an adult.
Pageticker: Your child's reading communication will now all be through Pageticker, please ensure you have signed up and have created an account to access comments regarding your child's reading.
Please bring a reusable water bottle to have in class every day.

Questions

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

2B Miss Browning e.browning@wilbrahamprimary.com

2D Miss Dolden: g.dolden@wilbrahamprimary.com

2EK Miss Ennis-Khan: i.ennis-khan@wilbrahamprimary.com

Homework

Spellings within reading record to practise
Reading and Phonics books to be read daily
Oracy homework will be be uploaded to our blog each Friday including Wilbraham's Question of the Week