Welcome to Year Two
Teacher : Mr Hibbard
Support staff: Mrs Pasarica, Mrs White, Ms Richings, Ms Lam, Mrs Ward, Ms Cahill, Mrs Kumar, Ms Dowdall, Mrs Altayar
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We have a very exciting year ahead and I am looking forward to getting to know my new class of amazing children & parents. Along with Meet the Teacher and the school website information I hope you find the information below helpful. Our class timetable is also available on the website, as is our long term plan.
Reading To help enable your children to read we will teach phonics and guided reading sessions. Reading is also modelled and encouraged through our daily English lessons. In addition, an adult will hear each child in the class read at least once a week. Each child will be given a reading record and these will be checked when they have their individual reading time.
Please try your best to read with your child every day, this will help to improve fluency and accuracy and hopefully be a lot of fun to do together. When the children have read their books and it has been noted in their reading record, they will have two books to go home on their reading day. The children will also bring home a school library book of their choosing. When your child has read their library book they can bring it back to school and change it.
Homework Homework will be given out on a Wednesday and is due back in on a Monday. Hopefully, this gives the children and adults time to look at the homework and come and ask questions if there is any uncertainty. It will be related to work covered in class and is meant as a chance for the children to consolidate their learning. Most weeks the work will be English and maths based, but on some occasions I may set work from other curriculum areas, such as topic or science. If homework is not completed I will work with those children during their break time to help them complete the task set. This work is in addition to regular reading at home.
PE PE lessons will be on a Monday and Thursday every week this term. Children can come to school dressed in their PE kit on those days. Please make sure that their PE kit, and all clothing, has their name on it as this helps return it to you if it is misplaced. Plimsolls or trainers are required for PE. This year children’s swimming sessions will take place in the summer term.
Equipment Please make sure that your child has a named water bottle in school so that they can keep hydrated during the day. Due to hygiene reasons we do not provide cups for the children, so it is very important that they have their own water bottle.
If you have any questions please do not hesitate to pop in to school to see me, it is ever so important that we work together to provide your child with the very best experience at school.
Thank you,
Mr Hibbard
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Year 2 Timetable Autumn 2025
Phonics and Reading
In Year 2, the children continue to build on the skills they have learnt whilst using the Essential Letters and Sounds (ELS) phonics programme in Reception and Year 1.
Children will read individually each week and will be given a phonetically decodable book to read and practise. One the children have completed the ELS scheme, they move on to using the Collins Big Cats reading scheme.
To support their love of reading, children will also be encouraged to choose a 'sharing book' - this is a book that may or may not be fully decodable but can be enjoyed with parents and family members as a book to read together.
Science Knowledge Organisers - Autumn 2025
Knowledge organiser for the individual topic area.
