Welcome to Year Two!

Our Year Two Team..

Mrs Harvey and Mrs Gotting warmly welcome you to Year Two at Sandiway Primary School this year.  Mrs Gotting will be teaching the class on Monday and Thursdays and Mrs Harvey will teach the class on Tuesdays, Wednesdays and Fridays.  

Homework: Y2 Homework for the 17th July is to maintain reading and continue Times Table Rock Stars.

Welcome to our Year Two class page. Here you will find all the information about our class and the year ahead including our weekly timetable with our daily routines, curriculum overviews and homework. For more information about what is taught in Year Two, you might also want to have a look at the curriculum pages of the website. 

If you have a child in Year Two, we will be uploading snap shots of our learning onto Seesaw. So keep checking in when you can.

Summer Term 

Our days are busy and you can see what a day looks like in Year Two here:

(the above timetable is an example and is subject to change)

For more detail about the all the subjects and themes we will be covering throughout the year, please see the attached Year 2 Curriculum Overview for parents in the downloadable files below.

What we are looking forward to in the Summer Term 2025

 Please read our Year Two Summer Term Curriculum Overview

Key Information for the Summer Term:

PE: Year Two have PE this term on Tuesday and Thursday. Children should come ready dressed in their PE kit on these days. 

Ordering Lunch: Where possible, please order school lunches at home via School Gateway. 

Water: Children are encouraged to bring in a bottle of water each day which they can access at any time.  Please ensure bottles are named.  

Snack: Children are encouraged to bring in a healthy snack for our morning playtimes or children may choose to order a snack from the kitchen. If you would like to send in your own snack then please make sure it is healthy. Wherever possible, please avoid chocolate, crisps or sweets please. We are a nut free school. KS1 children are provided with a piece of fruit during the afternoon sessions.

Year 2 Summer Term Read Alouds...

We love reading in Year Two.  We enjoy listening to books and here are just a few of the books we will be enjoying in Year Two this term:

We are looking forward to reading Fantastic Mr Fox by Roald Dahl in our Guided Reading sessions and we will also use Quentin Blake's stylised illustrations as a source of inspiration for our art work this term that will be inspired by children's illustrators.  We will also explore the illustrations of Axel Sheffler and Eric Karl to name a few.

We also look forward to working on The Last Wolf by Mini Grey, a reimagined classic of the tale of Little Red Riding Hood.  This will provide lots of inspiration for our own writing and should fuel our imaginations.  The final book we will explore this year is Grandad's Secret Giant by David Litchfield.  This is a book that explores belonging and friendship which Year Two will be able to relate to from our 'Me and My World' sessions over the course of the year.

Spring Term

We had a full and varied Spring term in Year Two, enjoying our very first Residential visit to Fox Howl in Delamere where we enjoyed working as a team, developing our resilience and becoming increasingly independent. We smashed it!

 Please read our Year Two Spring Term Curriculum Overview

During the Spring Term we dived into the world of mythical creatures with the text The Dragon Machine by Helen Ward.  Dragons appeared all over the place and we enjoyed seeing what happened as the Dragons started to take over the Year Two Classroom.  We wrote some wonderful stories about our own mythical creatures that initially got into lots of mischief before we found their rightful homes. 

Alongside the Dragon Machine, we also enjoyed reading Dragonsitter by Josh Lacey.  This tale has a somewhat mischievous dragon that gets up to all sorts.  This was the basis for our Guided Reading sessions in the first half of the Spring term.  We focused on developing fluency and being able to retrieve information by answering and asking questions.  We then progressed onto reading Owen and the Soldier during the second half of the term.

Later on this term we will enjoy reading and writing based on Owen and The Soldier by Lisa Thompson and My Name is Not Refugee by Kate Milner.

Autumn Term 2024

 Please read our Year Two Autumn Term Curriculum Overview

For the first half of the Autumn term we read The Troll by Julia Donaldson and The Three Billy Goats Gruff by Mara Alperin during our reading sessions. In English we focused on the text 'Look Up' by Nathan Bryan.  We enjoyed the fact that this book has been inspired by the astronaut Mae Jemison.  .

For the second half of the Autumn term we explored the non-fiction text called Above and Below.  This really inspired the nature lovers in our Year Two class.  It also had lots of new and challenging/ambitious vocaulary for us to investigate.

In English we read the tale of The Owl who was Afraid of the Dark by Jill Tomlinson.  This is an English classic as the book that was first published in 1968.  It was a great exploration into how we can overcome our fears and was the starting to point for us to developing detail in our own writing.

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