Year 2

Click on the link to view what we will be learning about across the curriculum in Year 2.

Reading

• Secure with year group phonic expectations.

• Recognise simple recurring literary language.

• Read ahead to help with fluency and expression.
• Comment on plot, setting & characters in familiar & unfamiliar stories.
• Recount main themes and events.
• Comment on structure of the text.
• Use commas, question marks and exclamation marks to vary expression.
• Read aloud with expression and intonation.
• Recognise:
  • commas in lists
  • apostrophe of omission and possession (singular noun)
• Identify past/present tense and why the writer has used a tense.
• Use content and index to locate information.

Writing

• Write different kinds of sentence: statement, question, exclamation, command.
• Use expanded noun phrases to add description and specification.
• Write using subordination (when, if, that, because) and co-ordination (or, and, but).
• Correct and consistent use of present tense & past tense.
• Correct use of verb tenses.
• Write with correct and consistent use of:
  • capital letters
  • full stops
  • question marks
  • exclamation marks
• Use commas in a list.
• Use apostrophe to mark omission and singular possession in nouns.
• Write under headings.
• Write lower case letters correct size relative to one another.
• Show evidence of diagonal and horizontal strokes to join handwriting.

Mathematics

• Compare and order numbers up to 100 and use < > =.
• Read and write all numbers to 100 in digits & words.
• Say 10 more/less than any number to 100.
• Count in steps of 2, 3 & 5 from zero and in 10s from any number (forwards and backwards).
• Recall and use multiplication & division facts for 2, 5 & 10 tables.
• Recall and use +/- facts to 20.
• Derive and use related facts to 100.
• Recognise place value of any 2-digit number.
• Add & subtract:
  • 2-digit ns & ones
  • 2-digit ns & tens
  • Two 2-digit nos
  • Three 1-digit ns
• Recognise and use inverse (+/-).
• Calculate and write multiplication & division calculations using multiplication tables.
• Recognise, find, name and write 1/3; 1/4; 2/4; 3/4.
• Write and recognise equivalence of simple fractions.
• Tell time to five minutes, including quarter past/to.

Children have opportunities to read their reading books daily in school. It is essential that children bring their reading book in their book bags daily.

In year 2, the children begin the school year following RWI phonics. During this period, children will be assessed and placed into groups based on their ability. Whilst your child is in a RWI group, they will bring home 3 reading books; 1 they have practised, 1 unseen book with the sounds that they have learnt and a library book which they have chosen. Reading books are changed every Thursday. 

Once children have completed the RWI program, they will progress onto Accelerated Reader. Children will be assessed termly and provided with a book reading level range. Children are encouraged to read at least 3 times a week. When the children complete their reading book they will be given a short quiz to complete. Children are given the responsibility of choosing their own reading book from the library to take home and enjoy. The Accelerated Reader Program is used by the Teacher to track the children's progress, provide challenges and celebrate the children's reading success. 

• Purple Mash
• Mathletics
• Times Tables Rockstars
• I.D.L
• Oxford owl

On Wednesdays, children should come to school wearing their P.E. kit. They will take part in P.E. lessons led by our dedicated teacher, Mrs Boyle.

Throughout the year, children will also have opportunities to engage in Forest School sessions, sports competitions, after-school clubs, and a variety of active learning experiences.