Dear Parents / Carers of children in Year 2,

Welcome back to the last term of Year 2. This term will have a focus upon preparing for and completing
statutory assessments, in order to help inform an overall judgement of your childs attainment at the end
of Key Stage 1. In order to help your children complete these statutory assessments and also their
progress (and therefore overall attainment) we would like every child to read daily. Children reading purple
level or above should have a strong focus on comprehension during their daily reading session. Most of the
school reading books have question and activity ideas at the back to help with this. We would also be
grateful if you would continue to complete the weekly comprehension homework activities as these provide
greater experience of written comprehension questions. A similar emphasis in the statutory tests is placed
on mental maths. Therefore helping your child workout and recall key mathematical facts at home for a
short amount of time, on a regular basis will help them. Although all children have to be tested, they will be
conducted in the normal classroom environment, under normal classroom conditions.
Our English lessons this term have begun with work based on the Wind in the Willows We will then be
focussing on revision of key features of information texts and understanding of characters in stories in
preparation for writing assessments. The focus in writing will be around writing correctly punctuated
sentences (full stops, exclamation marks, speech marks, commas to separate adjectives in a list) and using
a variety of language in sentences including adjectives to describe nouns, a variety of conjunctions (and,
but, or, because, when, that, if, after, before) and connectives (Then, Soon, Next, During, Later, After
that). Maths lessons will continue to have a focus on mental strategies and quick recall of multiplication and
corresponding division facts for the 2, 3, 5 and 10 times tables.
Our theme for the first half of term is Wind in the Willows during which we will focus on habitats.
After half term we will begin a new theme called
about the seaside .

Bucket and Spades in which we will learn

PSHE will give the opportunity for the children to consider and reflect on a number of issues from trust &
independence to personal organisation
Please make sure all PE kit is named and in school all week.
During this term we are lucky to have a dance specialist working with us each Monday
afternoon.
As previously mentioned, we appreciate the support you give your child at home. We would
like to emphasise the importance of regular reading. If your child is reading their books
quickly and you have talked about their book and asked questions, there are other reading
activities you can do in order to continue to promote regular reading. Some include visiting
the school or local library and reading a wider range of text types, online reading including Bug Club and
other websites and reading books from home. Furthermore and so we can continue to promote
comprehension, there will be a weekly comprehension homework. The phonics homework will be sent out
every Friday, due in on Wednesday.
There will also be a piece of research homework about an animal to support our Wind in the Willows topic
and also help provide additional content for your child to write a piece of information about an animal.
If you have any questions or feel you have a particular expertise or interest in any of the above topics
please let me know. We hope you have found this information useful and please do not hesitate to contact
us if you have any queries.
Mrs Southgate and Mrs Hocking.