Bumblebee Class (Year 2) 2025 - 2026

Year 2 Bumbleebee Class

Teacher: Mr Davies

Teaching Assistant: Miss Hodkinson and Miss Littler

Here you will find all of the exciting and wonderful things that your child will be learning during their time in Year 2. If you have any questions, please use Class Dojo or speak to a member of our team at drop off/ pick up.

Thank you

Autumn 2

Mathematics

Times Tables

Times tables will be taught daily as part of our mental maths lessons. We will be learning our 2, 5 and 10 times tables as well as completing daily challenges and a weekly timed quiz. All children have a log-in for TT Rockstars which is a fun, exciting website with lots of games to support the learning of times tables. Please encourage your child to practise their times tables using this website or any other games.

Everyday 8.50 - 9.20 am we will have our phonics or whole class shared reading lesson. Each child will bring home a shiny book and paper book taken from current reading level. Obviously, accidents can happen but please try and look after the books so they can continue to support our children with their reading.

Reading Expectations

Read with your child every day even if it is just 2 minutes- this can make all the difference. 
Record in their reading diaries we need to ensure that your child is receiving their vending machine or reading buddy. 
Asking your child about what they think might happen next in the story, how do they think the character is feeling, who is the author and what do they do. 
It does not have to be their paper or shiny book they read it can be any, you can read to them- change your voice for expression, bring the characters to life. 
Shiny book bag books MUST be returned to school every day ready to be changed every Monday. 
Paper books (they are the same as what they are reading within their phonics lesson to promote confidence), they should be coming into school every day - ready to be changed every 3rd read within their phonics lesson.

If your child has finished the reading scheme they will continue to have whole class shared reading lessons. The text we will use for this half term is ‘Owen and the Solider’ by Lisa Thompson. We will learn how to make inferences on the basis of what is being said and done, sequencing of events in stories and how information is related, make predictions, clarify vocabulary and retrieve information. We will also be discussing our favourite words and phrases from the text.

Reading diaries MUST come in every day regardless of whether or not they have been written in- we cannot replace them if they are continuously being lost or not taken care of.

• Finding out how schools have changed over time
• Investigating what school was like in the past
• Investigating what schools were like in the 1900s
• Comparing a modern classroom with a classroom 100 years ago
• Comparing three periods of time
• Expressing their own opinions and views on which school from the past they would prefer to go to.

PE

Your child will have 2 PE lessons each week. Their days this half term are Wednesday (Forest School) and Friday. Please ensure they come into school in their PE kit on these days.

This term the children will using what they have learned about humans and healthy living to understand the basic needs of different types of animals. This will include being able to identify and name a variety of common animals including fish, amphibians, reptiles, birds and mammals and identifying how animals and humans are related.

We will also be conducting some investigations and experiments using the full range of scientific skills.

In Music the children will be creating their own graphic score. They will be inspired by the song 'What a Wonderful World' by Louis Armstrong. They will create a pictorial score thinking about all the things they love to create their own song.

Forest school

Forest School sessions will be on Wednesday for this half-term

Useful links

https://www.classdojo.com/

https://ttrockstars.com/

https://www.topmarks.co.uk/Search.aspx?q=year%202%20maths

Rules of spellings for Year 2 

Weekly spellings will be added to the class dojo. A paper copy will also be handed out on a Monday. Children need to practise everyday ready for their test on a Friday. 

Homophones - Homophones are words that sound the same but have different meanings and are spellled differently. For example, flower and flour, bee and be, hair and hare and their, they're and there. 

Common Exception Words for Year 2 - we will rehearse Year 1 common exception words and then begin to learn the Year 2 set. Please see the attached list of words to practise. Make them into games, colour them in and have fun learning them.

Contracted words - children will learn how to use an apostrophe correctly for contracted words. For example could not - couldn't, I have - I've. They will learn that the apostrophe is replacing a letter and also irregular forms of the rule. For example, will not - won't.

General Reminders:

Please ensure that your child's uniform is clearly labelled.
Children's water bottles should contain water (unless we are notified as to why) again, bottle should be clearly labelled.
Most communition will be done via Class Dojo a great way to upload and home learning, WOW moments or if you have any questions or concerns.