Welcome to Yellow Class

What your child will learn in Year 2:

In Year 2 a wide variety of subjects are taught.

Your child will have daily English, maths, phonics or comprehension and spelling lessons.

Weekly, the children will have lesson in:

• Geography or history
• Science
• RE
• Art or DT
• Computing
• Music
• 2 PE lessons
• PSHE

For a more detailed overview of what is taught each half term, please read the class Knowledge Organisers on the class page.

http://www.stjohnsdewsbury.co.uk/knowledge-organisers 

Days to remember:

Monday - RWI Spellings will be sent home.  Children will be tested on these the following Monday.

Tuesday and Wednesday - PE days.  Please send your child to school in their full PE kit.  Earrings and jewellery must be removed.

Wednesday - Reading books and homework will be collected in.

Friday - Homework will be sent home to be collected in the following Wednesday.  Spellings will also be sent home which will be tested the following Thursday.

Please regularly check ClassDojo as all updates and changes will be posted there first.

If you have any questions please do not hesitate to ask.

What can you do to hep your child progress?

Attendance:

Every day is a busy one to ensure that your child becomes secure in their learning and meets their end of Key Stage expectations.  To ensure that your child gets the most out of their learning we would ask you to support us with the following:

• Ensure that your child comes to school everyday.
• Ensure that your child arrives in class at 8.40am each day.
• Where possible. avoid appointments, during the school day.
• Avoid taking holidays during term time.

Homework:

Homework will be set weekly and will consolidate learning that has been completed in class that week.

Homework will include the following:

• Maths - focusing on a key skills learnt that week.
• English - focusing on the key skills learnt that week.
• Spellings - Use LOOK, COVER, WRITE,CHECK to practice any spellings at home throughout the week.

Please encourage your child to complete their homework each week.  If you have any questions regarding the homework set please just ask.

Reading:

• Children should develop the habit of reading at home daily for at least 10-15 minutes.
• If your child accesses RWI phonics they will bring home a RWI phonics books that they have read at least 3 times in their lessons and a reading book that is linked to their phonics level.  
• If you child is accessing RWI comprehension they will bring home an Accelerated Reader book that is linked to their reading level.  Once they have read the book, they will then take a short quiz before selecting a new book.
• Please take time to listen to your child read at least twice a week and sign their reading record to show that this has been done.
• Listen to your child read, model how a text should be read and talk to them about the meaning of any new words and phrases they may come across.  Ask questions to check your child's understanding of what they have read.

Spellings:

• By the end of Key Stage One your child should be able to read and spell the Year One and Year Two Common Exception Words and the first 100 High Frequency Words.  Please encourage your child to practice reading and spelling these a few at a time until they can read and spell these correctly.

Useful resources:

Year One and Year 2 Common Exception Words:

First 100 High Frequency Words:

Please regularly practice reading and spelling these at home.

Topmarks maths games

Topmarks has lots of fun maths games to help your child practice their number bonds and timestables.

https://www.topmarks.co.uk/

Supermovers videos

You can choose from maths, English, PSHE or just for fun activities.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/teach/supermovers