Year 2 2025 - 2026

Miss Roberts

Ready, Respectful, Safe

Love learning, love life, always aiming high

To contact the Year 2 team, please email lroberts@elton.cheshire.sch.uk

Year 2 Staff:

Miss. Roberts Miss. Wellings Mrs. Hodgson (Monday and Friday afternoons)

Welcome to Year 2!

Welcome back after the holidays, we hope that you had a wonderful Christmas and are ready to continue learning- building upon all the knowledge and skills learnt in the Autumn term.

We have carefully planned many exciting learning opportunities across the curriculum, to ensure that you grow and develop to your full potential. It is our aim that you love learning, love coming to school each day and feel confident in your environment to take chances in your learning and to achieve success- academically, socially and emotionally.

We are here to help and support you, your happiness is our priority and we will do everything in our power to always be there for you, not only the staff in Year 2 but also everyone else across the school. Please talk to us if you ever have any questions or worries, together there is nothing we can't work through.

Our topic this term is: What can we learn from the past?

Our Pathways to Write texts this term are:

The Dragon Machine by Helen Ward.

Major Glad, Major Dizzy by Jan Oke.

In Pathways to Read, we will be reading the text The Dragon Sitter by John Lacey. These books link to both our English texts, and our wider curriculum lessons, and will help us to develop our understanding of the topic. We can't wait to share these exciting books with you.

In Maths, we will be learning about shape, money and multiplication and division. As always we will continue to use concrete, pictorial and abstract methods.

Our PE days are Mondays and Fridays. Children will need a named kit in school at all times. We sometimes have extra P.E. sessions or change our sessions around, so this is really important. We send home kit each half term to be washed. Please make sure children have a white top, black or white shorts and pumps or trainers.

Homework and Reading

Homework will be sent home on Fridays. Each week we will send home a Learning Log task and a piece of Maths. Homework is due back by Wednesday.

Please read with your child as often as possible, every day if you can. Please write a comment in the yellow diary eg. Did they enjoy it? How well are they blending? Could they retell the story? Could they discuss the character’s behaviour? If you are in a rush though, just a signature will do.

The more practice your child gets, the quicker your child will become fluent. Please keep the reading book and yellow reading diary in their book bag and send it in every day. Each week, your child will receive two new reading books. These will either be matched to our RWI scheme or carefully selected to align with their based on our PM Benchmarked assessment.

Twitter

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