Year 2

We are pleased to welcome you to the Year 2 page. The main need-to-know information can be found here as the year progresses. Watch out for additional curriculum information on Seesaw.

If you have a general query, please email schooloffice@stgeorges.wirral.sch.uk and we shall endeavour to reply as soon as we can.

The main team who will be leading your children for the academic year, 2024/25 are:

Class	Teacher	Support Staff
2A	Mrs Malloy and Mrs Taylor	Mrs Wood Mrs Hewson Mrs Breen Mrs Rynkiewicz Mrs Kendrick Miss Shaw (Music and PPA cover) Mrs Jackson (PPA cover)
2B	Mrs Rycroft
2C	Miss Cumming
2D	Miss Cameron

All year 2 will do PE on TUESDAY. Children should wear their PE kit to school on that day. Please note PE kits must be a plain white t-shirt, navy blue or black shorts/leggings/tracksuit bottoms. We ask that all jewellery be removed for PE days and long hair is tied back

RESPECT Charter

At St George's we have a RESPECT framework, which the children follow throughout the school. Each half term the children learn about different characteristics of learning. These are resilience, empathy, self-awareness, positivity, excellence, communication and teamwork.

Alongside each characteristic of learning the children will also be introduced to a Learning Hero. Each Learning Hero is someone who shows our characteristic of learning, and this will help the children to learn more about the positive characteristic.

Home Learning

The children will be set spelling activities on Seesaw each Friday. These are to be completed and a photograph should be uploaded before the following Wednesday, so your child’s class teacher can give feedback.

Maths home learning will be based on Maths Whizz. All children will receive a login so they can access this from home.

Termly optional learning tasks will also be set for you to complete throughout the term that link to our current learning.

The children will bring home reading books daily and a reading log. Please give your child lots of opportunity to talk about and read their book, then write feedback for the teacher in their reading log. These should be sent into school every day with your child’s book bag, so they can change their reading book when needed.

Literacy and Read Write Inc.

RWI In year 2, we will continue with our Read Write Inc. journey, working through the levels, and onto Read Write Inc. comprehension. Please encourage your children to use their knowledge of sounds and corresponding graphemes when reading and writing at home. Once children have completed the Read Write Inc programme they will begin Accelerated Reader.

As part of our literacy learning, each term we have key texts that we access through shared reading activities, which go on to inspire our writing. The writing outcomes vary each term, from setting descriptions to non chronological reports, recounts to retelling stories.

Maths

In year 2 maths we further develop number fluency and problem-solving skills. Pupils will learn to count and understand place value to 100, and solve addition and subtraction problems with two-digit numbers. They explore multiplication and division using the 2, 5, and 10 times tables, and begin working with simple fractions. Measurement topics include money, time to the nearest five minutes, and measuring length, mass and capacity. Pupils will also be able to identify 2D and 3D shapes, symmetry, and describe position and direction.

Science

The Year 2 Science curriculum explores 6 engaging units: Changing Shape of Materials, Uses of Materials, Living things and their Habitats, Growing Plants and Food and Exercise. Children will learn to identify and compare materials and their properties, understand life cycles in animals and humans and observe plant growth and requirements. In the Food and Exercise topic, pupils learn about nutrition, hygiene and how to stay healthy. Across all units, children develop working scientifically skills, asking questions, observing, testing, classifying, and recording data through hands‑on experiments and clear scientific vocabulary.

An Overview of our Foundation Subject Learning in Year 2

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