Year Two Notice Board                            

Notices 24.03.25 

STEM activity request - Year 2 are doing a STEM activity towards the end of this week and we need an old sock and a small disposable water bottle for each child. We will be cutting the bottoms off the bottles so they will be unusable and therefore recycled after the activity. If you are able to send your child in with these items it would be greatly appreciated. Thank you.

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

My Child At School

New Parent Portal Launches at Belmont!

My Child At School (MCAS) will revolutionise the partnership between home and school.

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The code expires after 24 hours.

Reading Books

Please note: If your child is reading the Fluency Level (Chapter) Reading Books, we will only be issuing a new ebook for them every 3 weeks. This is because we read two chapters per week for our reading lessons. Therefore we only expect the children to read these two chapters at home each week. If you require any further clarification please ask the class teacher.

Please note that we are unable to send hard copies of these books home with the children as we only have a single set of each book for use in school by Key Stage 1 and Lower Key Stage 2 classes. Thank you for your understanding.

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

Water Bottles - Please ensure that your child brings a named water bottle to school with them each day so that they can hydrate regularly throughout the day.

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

 Damsons

Apricots class list for books already bought below: Updated 8.1.25 (Thank you)

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. 

Spring Topic 

Our topic this term is called 'Fighting For Survival' and we will be learning about the history of nursing, with a focus on Florence Nightingale, Mary Seacole and the Crimean War.

 Year 2 Spring 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 - Fighting for Survival - Spring 2025

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

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