Year Two Notice Board                            

Thank you for the shoe boxes sent in so far for our DT. We are still happy to accept more if you have any others to send in.  

06.12.23

• Please note that the spellings for next week have been added below.
• As we are now into Winter term can you please ensure that your child comes to school with a warm coat each day.
• Reading Records- Just a reminder that 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 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.
• Head lice- A case of head lice was previously reported in Year 2. Please ensure to check your child's hair regularly to prevent any further incidences. 

Notices

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

The Year 2 team are:

Apricots - Mr McDonnell, Mrs Abu Zohra and Mrs Skinner (Fridays only)

Damsons - Miss Breen, Mrs Donnelly and Miss Porter.

Reading

Reading for Pleasure - Sharing books for class
As part of our focus on reading in school, we would like to develop 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 two book lists that have 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 Two List which can be found here 

Apricots list (updated 17.11.23)

Thank you for the books donated so far.

Damsons list 

Water and Snacks

Please ensure that your child has a named water bottle in school every day. Fruit will be offered to the children every morning at playtime (10.15am). Your child is allowed to bring in their own healthy snack to eat at playtime. Please remember we are a nut-free school. 

Autumn Topic 

Our topic this term is called 'I Love London' and we will be learning about some key historical events in London's history and we will be comparing London to another major city, New York.

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 2023  

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: Ester and Teresa

BHSA Damsons: Vaida