Year Two Notice Board                            

Notices 16.12.24 

Dear Parents and carers,

Please note that there will be no homework issued this week, as is the norm for holiday periods. We will resume with weekly homework in the New Year.

The Year Two team would like to thank you for all your help and support this term, We hope you all have a restful and enjoyable time over the holiday season.

Notice for Damsons parents/carers

We would like to apologise for not being able to give out Little Wandle reading books/eBooks over the past week or so. Assigning these to the correct children takes a lot of time and in the absence of the class teacher this has not been an easy task to coordinate due to log in rights, etc. Beginning next week the children will be allocated books and, for the time being, we will only be sending these as eBooks to all children.

Please return your shared 'Reading for Pleasure' books and Reading Record books on Mondays as usual and these will be changed.

In the absence of Miss Breen during the coming weeks, Mr Guy will be working in Damsons class alongside the TAs and we hope that having a familiar face will help the children have a settled end to this term.

Thank you for your understanding,

Mr Powell

KS1 Phase Leader

This noticeboard will be updated on Monday afternoons to share homework and keep you updated with life in Year 2.

Home School Partnership Evening -  Please see a link below for the slides used at this year's Home School Partnership on Wednesday (25th September).

Year 2 - Home School Partnership Evening

Glue sticks (Urgent) - We are very low on glue sticks. If you have not recently done so, please send a non-coloured glue stick in for your child to use.  Thank you.

Reading for Pleasure

As part of our continued focus on reading in school, we would like to continue the lending library of books within each class. This will enable the children to foster a passion and love of reading at Belmont and ensure that they have access to high quality texts.
Please find links to the book list that has a variety of books that we would love to have in class.  Once a book has been donated to the class we will add a tick to show we now have it.  Please check the list to ensure that the book that you would like to donate is one that we don't already have.
These books will be stamped to show who has generously donated them and shared with all the class. The books come from the Recommended Books for Year 2 List which can be found below.

Year 2 Recommended Book List

Apricots class list for books already bought below: Updated 18.10.24

Reading Records - once they have been given out, reading records should be returned to school every Monday with a comment about how your child has read in the past week. This is so the reading records can be checked and a new reading book can be allocated or given. We also give out the reading for pleasure/sharing books on Mondays, so these books also need to be brought to school along with the reading records. Please note that some children will be bringing home a physical copy of the book, wherever possible and others will be issued an ebook. 

Autumn Topic 

Our topic this term is called 'I Love London' and we will be learning about The Great Fire of London and also looking at famous landmarks in the city. We will then use the city of New York to compare.

Year 2 Autumn Learning Tree

The below list is part of an initiative called Word Aware that we are using in school. We thought it would be helpful to share this list with you so that you can use some of these words at home when discussing the topic. If your child speaks a different language at home, it would be helpful to discuss and translate these words using your home language. We may add to this list during the topic as new words are introduced.

Word Aware - I Love London - Autumn 2024 

Home Learning 

Each Year 2 child will bring home a CGP KS1 English - Grammar, Punctuation & Spelling Homework Book. Details on which task to complete will appear below and these books need to be returned each Wednesday to be marked in class. Do not let your child complete all of the tasks in these books, we will set work linked to what we teach in class where possible and we will be assigning tasks each week therefore the book will not be completed in page order. 

Maths home learning for each week will be set on Google Classroom and the grammar home learning details will be listed in the Home Learning table below. 

Books for Year 2 

Here is a list of 50 books that are recommended reads for Year 2. 

50 Reads for Year 2

Handwriting sheets (to print off at home)

Handwriting cursive alphabet

Handwriting cursive days of the week

Handwriting cursive Y2 words 

Calendar/ Key dates

School Diary

Tuesday 17th December - Carol Concerts

Wednesday 18th December - Christmas Jumper Day & School Christmas dinner

Friday 20th December - early 1:30pm finish Christmas Holiday begins 

Monday 6th January - School back

Friday 21st January - Apricots visit to the Florence Nightingale Museum

Friday 14th February - Damsons visit to the Florence Nightingale Museum

Home Learning timetable

Please see the table below for details of the home learning tasks.

General Routine Information

For further information about Home Learning and ideas on how to support your child please click here. 

Common Exception Words - these are the words to read and spell by the end of Y2

CEW Y1 List & Y2 List

Class Reps

Our class reps are:

BHSA Apricots: Michelle & Joe

BHSA Damsons: Luciana, Ariane, Despoina & Marija