Year 2 2024 - 2025
Ms Anderson
Class Teacher: Ms Anderson
Class TA's: Miss Mac and Mrs Middleton
Welcome to Year 2!
I hope you have all had a lovely Christmas and the children enjoyed a well-deserved rest.
We hope this half term will be full of exciting new learning and everyone is ready for some hard work and fun!
A little bit about us:
Hello I am Ms Anderson, Year 2 teacher here at St Mary’s. I am looking forward to working with you this year, watching you make huge progress and gain confidence on your learning journey.
I am eager to see you all become more creative, enthusiastic about your learning- achieving high standards in reading, writing and maths. I can't wait to get know all about you all!
I am a mum to four children . In my spare time I enjoy spending time with my family, going out for long walks and listening to music.
Mrs Middleton is our Teaching Assistant and we have got lots of lovely activities planned to help our pupils grow in confidence and mindset this year.
Miss Mac is our 1:1 for a Year 2 pupil, as well as supporting us where she can.
Class information:
This Spring term our topics are going to be:
- History - Learning to Fly (The Wright Brothers).
- RE - Books and Thanksgiving.
- Science - Living Things: Habitats.
- Maths - Money and multiplication and division.
- Computing - Programming.
- PSHE - Personal Relationships.
- English - Taditional tales with a twist, Instructions and Classical poetry.
Our PE days are Wednesday and Friday:
- Children should leave their PE kits at school.
- your childs PE kit consists of: A plain white t-shirt, black shorts and PE pumps. Please can you ensure your childs PE kit is clearly labelled.
- Earings should be removed for health and safelty reasons.
- Homework is going to be sent home on a Friday, to be returned on a Wednesday.
- Children who return their complete homework each week can earn extra merits and dojos.
A few reminders:
Please try to read with your children every night; it will allow them to access the full curriculum easier, with more confidence and fluency.
On average, children should be aiming to read 90 words per minute, fluently.
Please practice counting in 2's, 5's and 10's with your child, along with column addition and subtraction.
You can support your child at home further by helping them to explore TT rockstars and learning their times tables for fluency and accuarcy.
Please remember to sign your child's reading record each time you have listened to them read.
If you have any questions or would like to arrange an appointment to see me, please contact the school office.
USEFUL WEBSITES FOR ADDITIONAL LEARNING:
Curriculum https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/levels/zbr9wmn
Timestables: https://www.purplemash.com/#app/games/timestables_assessment
Timestables Rockstars: https://ttrockstars.com/
