Welcome to the Year Two Notice Board

Year 2 2026-27

Please note that we will update the information for the current year in more detail next week.

In the meantime, for your information, PE will take place on Wednesdays and Thursdays. Please send your child to school wearing their PE kit on Wednesday and Thursday. 

Thank you

Year 2 Team

Calendar/Key dates

School Calendar

Drop-off information –

Pick up information – At the end of the day, Year 2 children can be collected from the area near the climbing frame at the far end of the playground. Please wait for the teacher to dismiss your child, as they have been asked to stay with their class until called.

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.

Playtime Snacks – If your child is bringing a snack in for playtime, please ensure that it is a small/well portioned, healthy snack that can be eaten within a short space of time. No sweets, biscuits or food containing nuts or traces of nuts should be brought in.

General Routine Information

Autumn Topic 

Our topic this term is called ‘I ❤️ London ‘ and we will be learning about the history of the buildings in London, Samuel Pepys and the Great Fire of London.  We will be visiting St Pauls cathedral.

Autumn Learning Tree

Home Learning timetable

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

Handwriting sheets (to print off at home)

By the end of year 2 children are expected to begin to join their writing. We will have lessons in class focussing on this but do encourage children to practice and we know some children are already attempting to do this.

Handwriting cursive alphabet

Handwriting cursive days of the week

Handwriting cursive Y2 words

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

Useful Information

Phonics screening check information  for parents – Only relevant for those pupils who did not complete these in Y1 or need to retake

Optional key stage 1 tests information for parents – As mentioned in the Home School Partnership, Belmont uses these tests to inform our end of year teacher judgements

Books we are reading in class this term include:

Reading Books

Reading Records – once they have been given out, reading records should be returned to school every Thursday 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 Thursdays, so these books also need to be brought to school along with the reading records.

Little Wandle/Phonics level books – Please note that some children will be bringing home a physical copy of the book, wherever possible and others will be issued an ebook. For those pupils who have moved onto Fluency level books they will be allocated ebooks only as we do not have physical copies to send home.

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.

50 Best Books 2025 Y2

Damsons donated list:

Apricots donated list:

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

Word Aware Fighting for Survival Spring

Water Water Everywhere Word Aware Summer

Year Two:

Teachers:
Apricots – Mrs Gill Mon-Thurs and Mrs Fanshawe Fri
Damsons – Miss Dunk

Class Reps

Our class reps are:

Apricots: TBC

Damsons: TBC