Welcome to Year Two!

Mrs Nicoll warmly welcomes you to Year Two at Sandiway Primary School this year. 

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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 (please see link below). 

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.

Reminders:

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.

P.E. Year Two have PE on Thursdays and Fridays this term. Children should come to school dressed in PE kit on these days.

Autumn Term:

 Please read our Year Two Autumn Term Curriculum Overview for more detail about all the subjects and themes we will be covering this term and throughout the year. 

A sample of our timetable:

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What we are looking forward to: 

English

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

For the second half of the Autumn term we will explore the non-fiction text called Above and Below.  This will no doubt inspire the nature lovers in our Year Two class.  It also has lots of new and challenging/ambitious vocaulary for us to investigate.

In English we will 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 will be a great exploration into how we can overcome our fears and will be the starting to point for us to developing detail in our own writing.

Maths

We follow the White Rose scheme of learning in Maths. This half term, Year Two will be focusing on place value to 100, comparing and ordering numbers and counting in 10s from any given number. We will move onto addition, recalling addition facts to 20 fluently, using concrete objects, pictorial representations as well as mentally. After half term we will be looking at subtraction and properties of shape. 

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