Welcome to Year Two
Welcome to Year Two. We are four form entry and have three classes in this year group. The Year Two staff team are:
- Teachers: Hannah Warner (Year Lead), Karolina Kruszko, Ashleigh McLellan and Carley Loughran
- Support staff: Karli Murray and Lisa Larkin
Our classes are named using the Year Group followed by the Class Teacher’s initials. Our classes are: Y2HW, Y2KK and Y2AMCL
We are going to be studying and exploring four exciting projects this academic year. These are:
Projects will be explored through all areas of the curriculum.
Year 2 curriculum newsletters
Rewards
We use a range of rewards throughout Year Two from stickers, dojo points and weekly Celebration Certificates which are presented in our Celebration Assemblies. We use the 'My Child at School' APP (MCAS) to communicate with parents.
In Year Two, the children who did not achieve the pass mark in the Phonics Screening assessment in Year One will undertake a retake. The children will complete a reading test to show how they blend phonemes together to create real and nonsense words. We follow The Little Wandle scheme, to develop phonics and Jane Considine’s Hooked on Books and The Write Stuff to teach reading and writing skills.
During June of the summer term in Year 2 children sit SATS papers - these are assessment taken by primary school children, which provide information about your child’s progress since the end of the Foundation Stage. The SATS papers focus on the English skills of grammar, spelling, punctuation and comprehension and the Mathematics skills of arithmetic and reasoning. SATS results are shared with parents with the end of year report.
Teacher contact details
Please see below for the email addresses for the Y2 teachers
hannahwarner@woodnewtonalc.com
karolinakruszko@woodnewtonalc.com
ashleighmclellan@woodnewtonalc.com
carleyloughran@woodnewtonalc.com
Home Learning
Home Learning is given weekly and is set to enhance your child’s learning and to work on skills and knowledge they have learnt that week. Home Learning tasks cover the following areas of learning:
- Reading
- Phonics
- Spelling