Year 2

Welcome to Year 2!

We have Beech and Sycamore classes in Year 2, you can meet the teachers to your right.

The Autumn Term is always a busy and exciting one as we settle into our new classrooms, routines and learning activities!

You can see more of the exciting work of year 2 on our Twitter account searching for the hashtags #sycamoreuhps, #beechuhps or #year2uhps.

Top tips for Year 2

Reading: Reading books and records can be returned to school any day of the week. We will then change the books and send them back home as soon as possible. Please read books and discuss them together more than once before returning.

As part of our reading we use Accelerated Reader at Upton Heath. Each time you finish a book there will be a short quiz to take to show your understanding. Year 2 are keen to compete for the weekly awards with the rest of the school and we are sure there will be lots of quizzing happening.

Home learning: Home learning will be set on Seesaw each Friday. All children also have their Times Table Rockstar / NumBots passwords (in front cover of the Reading Records) and should remember to regularly log on and play.

We also teach phonics daily using Anima Phonics (there is a guide in the middle pages of the Reading Record for you to refer to aswell).

PE: Both classes will have 2 sessions each week. One with the class teacher (day TBC) and the other on a Friday afternoon with Activity 4 All. Children should come into school wearing full PE kit appropriate for the time of year on those days.

Full school PE kit is required – white t-shirt, dark shorts / joggers and jumper. Pumps for indoors and trainers for outdoors.

Please refer to the Knowledge Organisers (see right) for our current topics and what we are covering throughout this half term.

If you have any questions about anything, please do not hesitate to ask a member of the team.

Thank you for your continued support,

The Year 2 Team.