Welcome to the Year Two Notice Board

DT – Raid your recycling and bring in an old shoe box                                                   

From Thursday 18th December the children will be working as part of a small group to create a moving vehicle. For this we have asked them to bring in an old shoe box and any other items that they think might be useful to add to their model. Children will not need one box each so do not worry if you do not have one spare. This links nicely to our Eco-Team focus on recycling and upcycling which we also talked about in our Science lessons this term.

Class Christmas Parties – Thursday 18th December                                                           

On Thursday 18th December, we are having our Christmas Parties. We have made a list of the things we need and you will find this on your Google Classroom strem so please sign up if you feel you can help with this. The food needs to come into school on the morning of the party. Please try and send this in with your children or hand it to the teacher at drop off (EY & KS1) rather than bringing it into the school office. If there are any questions please see class reps!

Thank you for your help.

Please check the food labels to ensure they do not contain nuts or sesame seeds.

Glue Sticks – Send a glue stick in with your child as we are extremely low on these and use them daily.

Wilderfest – Sign up if you’d like to be part of the wonderful Wilderfest after-school on Thursdays throughout December.

Wilderfest Advert

Home School Partnership 2025 – Thank you to those who attended our Home School Partnership Evening. We have uploaded the slides to the class Google Classroom in the Classwork section – Parents Topic.

Phonics Presentation Autumn 2025 – Thank you to those who attended our Phonics presentation in Aut 1. We have uploaded the slides to the class Google Classroom in the Classwork section – Parents Topic.

PASSWORD Log in sheets – New log in sheets have been provided so please use the up to date copy. Most are the same as before but some log in passwords/username have to change each year so please note that you have a new Little Wandle eCollins log in for reading books and a new Discovery QR code.

Books including sharing books, Little Wandle (physical and eCollins), homework books and library books have all been given out every Thursday so please check your child’s bag. Please return these every Wednesday morning.

We are going to be setting homework and changing books on Thursdays in Year 2. We will see how this works going forward as it is different to the arrangements last year.

Please except the invitation to your child’s class via Google Classroom and check this noticeboard regularly.

Calendar/Key dates

Saturday 29th November 2025 – School Christmas Fair 11am-3pm

Wednesday 10th December 2025 – KS1 Panto – Sleeping Beauty – PM

Wednesday 17th December 2025 – Christmas Jumper Day

Wednesday 17th December 2025 – Ey/KS1 Carol Concert 9:30 @ Christ Church, Acton Green

Wednesday 17th December 2025 – Christmas Dinner

Thursday 18th December 2025 – Class Christmas parties PM (See food sign up sheet on Google Classroom)

Friday 19th December 2025 – Early finish @ 1:30pm for all pupils – Merry Christmas

Monday 5th January 2025 – Staff INSET Day – School closed to all pupils

Tuesday 6th January 2025 – Spring Term begins – Happy New Year

Thursday 5th February 2026 – Year 2 visit to Paddington the Musical

Wednesday 4th March 2026 – Year 2 visit to Florence Nightingale Museum

School Calendar

Drop-off information – Class teachers will collect their classes from the playground at 8:55 AM. When the bell rings, please guide your child to their class sign near the blue gate. To support a smooth transition into school, encourage your child to join their class line and walk in independently with their peers.

• Please note: Year 2 children should wait in the playground until 8:55 AM. They do not enter the building early like KS2 students, unless it is raining.

Pick up information – At the end of the day, Year 1 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 Love London’ and we will be learning about our capital city in our history and geography lessons.

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. Please note that some children will be bringing home a physical copy of the book, wherever possible and others will be issued an ebook.

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

Teachers:
Apricots – Mrs Khalil  and Mr Guy (Friday)
Damsons – Mr Powell

Support Staff:
Apricots –  Ms Ayres (all day), Mrs Sroka (am), Ms Balsam (am)
Damsons – Mrs Donnelly

Class Reps

Our class reps are:

Apricots: Shelley Nahr (Caiden) and  Jo Lewis (Milo)

Damsons: Philip and TBC