Welcome to Year 2 (Wrens)
Welcome to Year 2
Here you will find useful information about your child’s learning including links to learning materials and information about how you can best support your child at home.
Things to remember
Year 2 doors open at 8.35am and close at 8.45am to allow adequate time to complete attendance and lunch registers.
Any late arrivals please report to the school office.
School closes to children at 3.15pm.
- P.E is every Tuesday and Thursday. Children should have their full kit in school all week. Earrings must be removed or covered.
- Homework is given on Friday via Purplemash and is to be returned by Wednesday. If help is needed please see a member of the Year 2 team.
- Spellings are given on Friday and are tested the following Friday. Please remember to practice at home.
- Home school books and reading records must be in school everyday. Books are changed on Fridays.
Dates for your diary
- W/B 8th September 2025 – Meet the teacher
- Friday 19th September 2025- TT Rockstars Day
- Friday 26th September 2025- Macmillan Coffee Morning
- Thursday 9th October 2025 – Flu Vaccinations
- Wednesday 15th and Thursday 16th October 2025- Parents Evening (3.30 pm-6.00 pm)
- Friday 17th October 2025- School closed to all pupils
- Wednesday 22nd October 2025 – Spooky Disco
- Half term: Monday 27th October 2025 to Friday 7th November 2025. School reopens on Monday, 10th November 2025.
How to help your child at home
Children who read regularly or are read to regularly have the opportunity to open the doors to so many different worlds! More importantly, reading will give your child the tools to become independent life-long learners. Please see the Reading at Home document to see how you can best support your child’s reading.
Encourage and support your child to practise their weekly spellings.
Practise recalling number facts including times tables for the 2, 5 and 10 times tables, as well as doubles and halves.
Practice writing with your child – it could be something you have done at the weekend or something that they are interested in.
Useful Websites and Resources
Our Current Learning
English
This term, our key text is The Bog Baby by Jeanne Willis. V
In the picture book The Bog Baby by Jeanne Willis. Two little girls go walking in bluebell wood and rescue a Bog Baby. They make the small creature a beautiful home in a bucket, tickle him and feed him cake crumbs.
Despite the girls’ care and attention, the Bog Baby gets sick, so they confide in their mother, who isn’t cross as they had feared, but tells them they must let their Bog Baby go back to the wild. Although they want to keep him, such is their love for him that they set him free.
This half term we will be focusing on;
- Punctuating sentences accurately
- Using capital letters for names of people
- Using expanded noun phrases to describe and specify
- Learning to spell common exception words
Writing outcome
To write a character description for our own Bog Baby.
Science
We are learning about Living Things and Their Habitats.
Children will be taught to:
explore and compare the differences between things that are living, dead, and things
that have never been alive
identify that most living things live in habitats to which they are suited and describe
how different habitats provide for the basic needs of different kinds of animals and
plants, and how they depend on each other
identify and name a variety of plants and animals in their habitats, including microhabitats
describe how animals obtain their food from plants and other animals, using the idea
of a simple food chain, and identify and name different sources of food.
Maths
At Moorhouse we follow White Rose Maths. This is a whole-class mastery programme designed to help nurture confidence in maths. This half- term we will work on place value.
