Use this page to find useful links and information to support you and your child’s learning at home. If there are other things you would like to see here, please let us know so we can update it accordingly.
Little Wandle
As you know we follow a phonics program called Little Wandle and many of the children will continue to access this program in Year 2. You will find some useful information for parent’s in the link below. It has information on how to support your child with their reading at home, videos demonstrating how we teach Phase 5 and much more.
https://www.littlewandlelettersandsounds.org.uk/resources/for-parents/
Spelling strategies
See the poster below to support your child with their spellings at home. New spellings will come home in their homework book each Friday. Homework books then need to be returned to school each Wednesday where we will reassess the children and send home their updated spellings on the Friday.
Here is a copy of all the words we will be working on this year.
Maths support
These are some of the maths skills your child will learn in Year 2.
1. Recognise and understand place value in a two digit number
In Year 2 children should be able to recognise which number is the ‘tens’ and which is the ‘ones’ in a two digit number. They will also be able to fluently compare and order numbers 1-100 and start to round numbers to the nearest 10.
At home: Help your child by asking how many ones and tens are in two-digit numbers. Use 100 square grids to help reinforce tens and ones.
2. Add and subtract 2 digit and 1 digit numbers
By now your child should be confident with numbers to 20 and their bonds so they will start to do small calculations including addition, subtraction and missing numbers. They will also be able to recognise odd and even numbers.
At home: Play simple card games and dominoes. Snakes and ladders is a great game to reinforce two digit and one digit addition and subtraction. When out and about add up the numbers on license plates of cars or buses.
3. Know the 2, 5 and 10 times tables
In Year 1 children were familiar with counting forward by 2, 5 and 10 – this will help them when they are introduced to the times tables and ideally they should have quick recall. They will also learn the associated division facts for these times tables.
At home: Help your child revise the times tables and associated facts. Write out multiplication and division questions and answers, cut them and jumble them up and then mix and match the correct answers.
4. Telling time to the nearest five minutes.
In Year 1, children were introduced to telling time. Now in Year 2 they are able to extend their understanding to tell time to the nearest five minutes. Children will also be able to tell the difference between AM and PM and understand clockwise and anti-clockwise.
At home: have your child practice telling time to the nearest five minutes – remind them to use AM and PM
5. Measurement
In Year 2 your child will be able to use appropriate units to measure weights, length and capacity. They will also develop a better understanding of money and be able to give change and combine coins to make different amounts.
At home: Give your child a ruler and ask them to measure three different objects in the house. Then have your child put the objects in order from shortest to longest and explain how much longer or shorter each object is than the other ones.
6. Pictograms, tally charts and bar charts
Pictograms are introduced in Year 2 as a simple and engaging introduction to bar charts. Block graphs (bar charts) are the first step in data handling and your KS1 child will learn to draw them, read them and use them to record information.
At home: Challenge your child to take surveys at home and represent the data that is collected on a graph.
7. Find simple fractions of shapes or quantities
Now that the children have been introduced to fractions in Year 1 – they will be developed more in Year 2 by finding a third, a quarter and three quarters of a shape or amount.
At home: Discuss fractions when sharing or cutting up cakes and pizzas.