Year 2

Curriculum Overview

 

PE

This year, Year 2 have PE lessons on a Thursday. PE lessons consist of structured teaching in a variety of indoor and outdoor activities. To ensure full access and high performance in PE, your children need to come to school wearing their PE kits on a Thursday.

• Plain shorts / leggings / tracksuit bottoms with school badge: (dark blue or John Scurr blue)
• Plain long or short sleeved T-shirt (white or pale blue). Additional sweatshirt ( blue)
• They will also need black trainers or plimsolls.

Reading at Home

In year 2, children are expected to bring their book bags into school every day. This is to ensure they can read their books at school and change them when necessary. We are also introducing accelerated reader which is an online reading assessment tool which helps us to monitor and track their progress. They are also continuing their phonics learning this year.

You can support their reading by encouraging them to read every day for around 20 minutes. Once they finish reading a book, it is important they complete a quiz on it using AR. Please allow access to a device to do this when required.

When reading at home, please encourage children to segment and blend when they are reading new/tricky words as they have learnt in phonics.

Online Learning Platforms

In addition to AR, your children will have access to other online learning platforms such as Times Table Rockstars, Numbots and Freckle. Once we have set them all up on the platforms, we will send home the logins. Please allow children time to practise accessing and using these platforms at home.

We will continue to communicate with you via school ping. If you do not already have it set up, please speak to the office.

Attendance & Punctuality

• The main gates open at 8:45am.
• The bell will ring at 8:55am.
• Our soft start begins at 8:50am, so that the school day can swiftly begin at 8:55am when the bell rings.
• Once they are used to it, children will come upstairs on their own.
• School finishes at 3:15pm. Please be on time to collect your children.

We hold high expectations of all of our students and expect them to attend school on time, every single day. Missing a single session has a negative impact on their learning and progress and we encourage you to mirror the same expectations at home. Please encourage your children to attend and refrain from keeping them at home unless absolutely necessary.

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