1. Year 2 Classroom News Reading in Year 2 WELCOME to YEAR 2
Mrs McIntyre (Teacher)
Mrs Murphy (CA)
Ms E McKiernan (CA)
WELCOME to YEAR 2
I would like to extend a big welcome to all my Year 2 children. We have 2 new boys in our class this year Ollie Maguire and Kevin Mezydlo.
I look forward to getting to know you, teaching you and having lots of fun.
TOPIC: Wonderful ME!
Children will learn about similarities and differences between themselves; name and talk about the 5 Senses; name external parts of the body and talk about what makes them special.
TIMETABLE
MONDAY: Library Van
MONDAY: PE
FRIDAY: PE
Important
Please send in a baby photo of your child (with name on the back) for our Topic.
THANK YOU!.
Reading in Year 2
For the month of September your child will revise their Year 1 words and read some reading books from last year. Please practice their reading and words every night.
Thank you
Little reminders:
Dinner money: £2.60 (daily)
£13.00 (weekly)
Tuck Shop: £13 (Sept & Oct)
HOMEWORK FOLDER
All homework, reading books, letters etc will be
sent home in a homework folder. Please ensure
that this folder is in your child’s school bag every day.
DATES to Remember:
School Closed for staff training on 15th September
Holidays – School closed
October: 30th & 31st
November: 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 24th
December: 21st -31st
January 1st, 2nd, 3rd back to school 4th
REMEMBER Mrs McIntyre is our Child Protection teacher and Mrs Harbinson is our Deputy Child Protection teacher. Both teachers can be approached if you have any pastoral concerns about your child. St Ninnidh’s PS phone number: Please note emergency out of hours phone numbers are displayed at the front of the school.

2. Year 2 September Activities
SUBJECT
Activities
TO HELP AT HOME
Language
and
Literacy
Listen and carry out instructions
Hear and clap out the syllables in words
Recognise rhyming words
Talk about personal experiences
Enjoy a range of fiction and non-fiction
Talk about and retell familiar stories
Work through Linguistic phonics programme – beginning with initial sounds s,a,t,p,i,n
Making little words using s,a,t,p,i,n
Writing simple sentences -
Writing Focus ‘Narrative’ writing
Shared reading of various big books related to our topic
Keywords to learn
Clap out syllables in long words e.g foot/ball has 2 syllables
Read familiar rhymes, stories and fact books together (ask your child to point out and talk about the cover, author, illustrator, pictures and any sounds/words they know)
Look out for our sounds and key words in everyday life (at the shop, doctors, around the home etc).
Have fun writing (making lists for school/shop, writing cards, writing thank you letters, having fun with mark-making)
Mathematics
Numeracy
Recognise and order numbers to 10
Recognise and order numbers to 15
Count up to 20
Addition stories for Number 4 and 5
Bar graphs: using bar graphs to show eye colour and age
Simple problem solving – word problems
Finding out who is the tallest/smallest in class
Use games on
Count different household objects, and get children to make different sets e.g. 5 clothes pegs, 10 pieces of fruit, 14 socks
Sing counting songs
Say Number rhymes
Simple practical addition activities to 5 e.g 3 apples and 2 apples – how many together?
The World Around Us
Topic Wonderful ME
Explore themselves (who they are, what they look like, where they live)
Talk about their own family
Listen and respond to stories about people and families
learn about similarities and differences between themselves
name and talk about the 5 Senses
name external parts of the body
talk about what makes them special.
Discuss baby photos
-PATHS programme (information session to follow)
Talk to your child about themselves and your family
Talk about physical features of your family members (hair, eyes, height, favourite colours etc)
Discuss with them about ‘why they are special’
Doreen McIntyre
For the month of September your child will be revising
over their Year 1 keywords and Year 1 reading books.