Year 2 2025 - 2026

Mrs Welsh

Autumn 2025

Welcome to Year 2.

Below you will see what is happening in year 2 for the next six weeks.

If you have any questions/queries please do not hesitate to contact me by email:

twelsh@vinetree.org.uk

Mrs Welsh & Miss Culverhouse

Our class timetable can be found in the files at the bottom of the screen.

Children will take part in PE on Wednesday and Thursday afternoons. On these days children should come to school in their PE kit and they will wear it for the remainder of the day.

Please ensure that your child is wearing the correct PE kit - A plain white t-shirt , a hoodie and black or navy joggers

Our current English text	Science
The Secret of Black Rock by Joe Todd Stanton	Why is it important to keep our bodies healthy?
Geography	History
What goes on at an airport and a train station?	What lessons have we learned from the Great Fire of London?

This term the children will be working on reading and writing numbers to 100 and beyond. They will learn how to partition numbers into tens and ones . Later on in the term they will be working on addition and subtraction.

The children will also be learning about money - recognising our coins and notes and making different amounts of money.

Encourage your child to practise these fun games and songs to practise recognising and writing numbers to 100.

Splat numbers to 100

Place Value Basketball - Dienes Game for 5 to 8 Year Olds (topmarks.co.uk)

Count to 100 song

https://www.sheppardsoftware.com/math/addition/fruit-splat-game/

Robot Addition

Subtraction Grids - Topmarks

Remember to play on Numbots to improve your mental maths.

Please read at least 3 times a week with your child and record it in their reading diary.

Spelling homework will be set on Spelling shed so that children can practise the spelling patterns taught at school. These are simple fun games to play.

Numbots is a great mental maths games that will help your child to build speed and accuracy with simple addition and subtraction.

(All passwords have been sent home and can also be found at the back of your child's reading record.)

Read Write Inc

Read Write Inc is the program we have chosen as a school to teach children the sounds needed to read. There are 44+ sounds that children need to know so they can sound out/Fred talk any unknown words. As children build their knowledge of these sounds, they will in turn develop their fluency. This means children will be able to read words, with the sounds they know, at a glance. It is vital children can read fluently in order to understand what they have read.

See below for a list of all the sounds children need to learn in Year 1 and a video on how to correctly pronounce them.

Reading Books

Children will be given reading books to take home every Thursday.

Our reading focus in Year 2 begins with developing children's fluency in line with their knowledge of sounds. Children will use Book Bag Books in order to do this. It is highly recommended that you and your child work through the activities suggested to support their fluency when reading and understanding of the text. ( These activities are stapled to the inside cover of your child's reading record.)

Please use the SWAYs below to refresh your memory on how to use Book Bag Books effectively and the previously mentioned activities.

Children should read at least 3 times per week and this should be recorded in their reading diary. Each reading activity from the Book Bag Books counts as a read alongside any other reading experiences e.g. sharing a Bingo Book. The name of the book title and a signature is all that is required when recording your child's reading.

In addition to their Book Bag Book children will be bringing home a Bingo Book and a non-fiction book which they can choose from our class library. These books are sent home with a view for you to enjoy them together. It is not expected that your child will be able to read these books independently.