Year 2
Welcome to Year 2!
We are so excited for your year ahead in Year 2. We have lots of fun things planned! As a class we enjoy going on class trips every half term to new and exciting places. We work hard every day to challenge ourselves to become independent learners.
In Key Stage One we use the Little Wandle SSP to teach phonics. The scheme begins with Foundations for Phonics and progresses from Phase 1 (initial letter sounds) through to Phase 5 which will include digraphs and trigraphs. Children will also be learning ‘tricky’ words and how to use their phonic knowledge to help decode these by spotting the ‘tricky’ part. As part of this programme, children will have a matched decodable book which they will read 3 times per week in school. They will then take it home to share with you. They will already be confident in decoding these words, so the focus at home will be on developing their fluency and expression when reading aloud.
Reading is so important and we ask parents to read a minimum of 3 times a week with your child. Children will have a reading diary and a book which they can take between home and school, when read with your child please record this in your child’s reading record.
We do PE twice a week and ask the children bring in their PE kit these days.
Spellings are sent home on a Friday which follow our Little Wandle Phonics, these are practiced all week and tested the following Friday.
Class Teacher: Mrs. Robinson
Teaching Assistant: Mrs. Swinbank
