1. St. Peter’s Infant School
Welcome to Year 2

2. St. Peter’s Infant School
Our learning this year will be based around the themes below. You will receive a letter at the start of each term informing you about what the children will be learning.
Term 1: Superheroes
Term 2: Splendid Skies
Term 3: Dinosaur Planet
Term 6: Beat, Band, Boogie
Term 4: Street Detectives
Term 5: Beachcombers

3. A typical day in Year 2 Morning: 8:45-9:00 early morning work
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A typical day in Year 2
Morning:
8:45-9:00 early morning work
Registration followed by GPaS, Brain Gym, Maths and English sessions.
Assembly and playtime split up the above sessions. Fruit will continue to be provided daily.
Afternoon:
Reading – guided, individual and independent.
Handwriting
PE and / or Topic: Science, History, Geography, Computing, RE, Music, Art & PSHE.

4. English This will cover…..
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English
This will cover…..
Speaking and Listening including drama, talking in 3s
Reading - Individual and groups
Writing
Daily phonics / grammar teaching
Adults can help by…
Hearing children read at home
Helping to practice phonics for reading and writing
Supporting writing through the termly topic letters
Playing games, including Lexia

5. St. Peter’s Infant School
Reading
Your child’s reading book will be changed twice a week when bought to school. Please indicate in the Contact Book that you have read with your child.
Children with be heard to read twice a week plus work on comprehension skills one a week with adults in class.
Please encourage and remind your children to put their reading book and contact book into the designated place in their class.

6. Writing St. Peter’s Infant School This includes:
Writing at length – developing stamina using the correct punctuation
Grammar – punctuation ((full stops, capital letters, ‘!’, ‘?’’,’), past and present tense, 4 different types of sentences, subordinate and co-ordinate clauses
Spellings – incorporated into dictated sentences
Apostrophes & contractions e.g. ‘we’ll’ short for ‘we will’
Application of phonics
Read, check and improve
Handwriting: joined writing
Capital letters for names, places, days and months

7. St. Peter’s Infant School
Writing
Letters
to be
joined:

8. Maths St. Peter’s Infant School This will cover…..
Counting forwards & backwards from any number up in 2s, 3s, 5s and 10s
Write digits and words for numeral 0-100
Find number bonds to 100
Know subtraction is the inverse of addition e.g. 3+5=8, 8-5=3
Understand value of each digit in a 3-digit number
Understand ‘<‘ and ‘>’ and solve multiplication & division
Time, fractions, measurement, geometry (2D & 3D shape), position

9. Maths at home Adults can help by…
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Maths at home
Adults can help by…
Finding maths in everyday activities with their child
Playing games, using Mathletics
Practice number bonds
Practice value of digits within numbers e.g. house numbers
Using the suggestions we will send home on the termly letter

10. St. Peter’s Infant School
Topic Work
This incorporates: Science, History, Geography, Computing, Music, R.E., Art and D.T.
These subjects are taught through a topic so as to link ideas together in a practical, exploratory way.

11. Homework Daily home reading
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Homework
Daily home reading
Weekly Maths and English (including grammar) based on week’s learning
Phonics – information re week’s learning
Mathletics, Lexia and Purple Mash
HOMEWORK CLUB every Monday with free crèche for younger siblings 3-4pm.

12. Other ways to support your child’s learning
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Other ways to support your child’s learning
Websites:

13. Recording Use books to record work: English / Topic book
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Recording
Use books to record work:
English / Topic book
Handwriting book
Maths book
- expected to be presented neatly

14. P.E. Weekly Correct P.E. kit required in school
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P.E.
Weekly
Correct P.E. kit required in school
Footwear required in school for outdoor PE

15. Independence Take responsibility for :
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Independence
Take responsibility for :
Coats and jumpers – place in class trugs at playtime and lunchtime if removed
Named
Taking books, homework, letters, etc. out of their book bags

16. Y2 SATs and Phonic Screening
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Y2 SATs and Phonic Screening
S.A.Ts
building a picture of your child’s attainment through tests and teacher assessment
during May 2018 Term 5
attendance throughout the year is vital but especially during Term 5.
Phonics
During June 2018, those children who did not achieve the phonic threshold in Year 1 will be re-assessed via the National Phonics Screening Check.

17. St. Peter’s Infant School
Y2 Blog
Follow our learning via our class blog which will be updated weekly. The blog addresses are:

18. St. Peter’s Infant School
Caring Crew
All Y2 children are selected to be part of the Caring Crew for one term. They sign a contract, wear a badge and have special responsibilities and daily jobs.

19. Admission to Junior School
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Admission to Junior School
Online
Applications open mid September 2017
Closing date for applications January 2018
Offer of a school place
April 2018

20. Transition to Delce Academy
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Transition to Delce Academy
Visits from Y3 / Y4 to St. Peter’s throughout the year
Y2 make afternoon visits in T6
Joint afternoon event with Y2 Delce Infants at Delce Academy
Y3 teachers spend time with Y2 at St. Peter’s

21. St. Peter’s Infant School
During the year:
Partnership - here to help – we will let you know if your child is finding something tricky and ways in which you can help them
Parent consultations – 3 x / year
Visits and Trips
Music Festival
Parent/pupil reading sessions
Homework Club
Class Blogs:

22. St. Peter’s Infant School
Any questions?