Welcome to Year 2!

A very warm welcome from the Year 2 Team - We hope you find our page useful!

About Us

Our team members are:

Argentina Class

Mrs Noake, who teaches on Mondays, Tuesdays and Wednesdays.

Mrs Smith, who teaches on Thursdays and Fridays.

Brazil Class

Miss Hatley, who teaches every day.

Mrs Ward is with us every morning as our amazing Teaching Assistant.

We also have fabulous teaching assistants who work across the week:

• Miss Croft
• Miss Gledhill
• Miss Higgs
• Mrs Rathod

Both classes enjoy fun music lessons with our specialist teacher, Mrs Scaber. 

General Reminders

• Reading books and reading records need to be in school EVERY day. We change reading books on Fridays. 
• Please make sure your child has a coat in school every day, whatever the weather is like in the morning! Thank you! 
• Our PE days are Monday and Wednesday in Class 5 and Monday and Thursday in Class 6, so please make sure your child has a full kit in school that day. 
• Please include trainers and leggings/joggers in your PE kit so that we can go outside as much as possible. 
• Please make sure jumpers are named and regularly checked as names fade!
• Please provide a water bottle with fresh water every day.

Homework

• We send home a reading book every Friday. You will keep it for one week.
• We expect your child to read at least 3 times a week.
• Please write in the Reading Journal every time you read at home.
• There are suggestions for activities you can do in the back of the book.
• Please use the questions at the back of the book to check if your child has understood what they have read. 
• Spellings also go home on a Friday. These are linked to the phonics we are learning that week and may include some tricky words (sometimes called common exception words; those words that are not phonically decodable). 
• We do a spelling check on the following Friday. 
• We would also like children to play on Times Table Rock Stars regularly.

Please read our Curriculum Letters so that you can help to support your children's learning.
We publish a new one each term so you can see what your child is learning throughout the year. 

Curriculum Letters 2025-2026

• Year 2 Curriculum Newsletter Summer Term 2 2025

Spellings for Year 2

• Year 2 Term 2 Spellings Friday 10th January 
• Year 2 Term 2 Spellings Friday 17th January
• Year 2 Term 2 Spellings Friday 24th January 

Handwriting in KS1

• Demonstrating The Letter Groups
• Joined Alphabet Poster

Useful Information

Common Exception Words Year 1 and 2

• Common-Exception Words Years 1 and 2 Word Mat

Phonics Resources

• Phase 1 Alphabet Mat

• Phase 2 Sound Mat

• Phase 3 Sound Mat

• Phase 4 Sound Mat

• Phase 5 Sound Mat

• Common Exception Words

Boost Parent User Guide

• Boost Parent User Guide.

Here is our reading treat bag. Who will take it home this weekend for some reading fun?

Useful Links

• Boost Learning platform to access Rocket Phonics

• Phonics Play A free online resource with excellent games to support your child's phonic knowledge.

• Twinkl Please use these free resources to support learning at home

• Times Table Rock Stars Use this website to practice your times tables. If you have forgotten your log in - please ask for a reminder.

• Nina and the Neurons Use your engineering skills to play games and help the Neurons collect stars.

• Education City English, Maths and Science activities for Year 2 can be found here. If you have lost your log in, please use the 'Contact Us' section on the school website to request a reminder.