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Welcome to
Park Spring Primary School

‘Achieving Together ● Inspired To Be Successful’

Year 2

Welcome to Year 2

To get in touch with the Year 2 team, email :

year2@parkspringprimary.co.uk

2A

Teacher– Miss Horton

 

2B

Teacher– Miss Smith

 

Teaching assistants 

Miss Starbuck, Miss Pierre, Mrs Baron and Miss Smith

 

Important information

Home Learning: Home learning is set on a Monday: please use your login in details to go on  Lexia, Reading Eggs, Time table Rockstars/Numbots.

Weekly spellings will be sent out on a Monday and there will be a test on the following Monday.

Reading records: We expect children to be reading at home three times each week.

Your child will bring a levelled reading book home every Monday ​and this should be returned to school on the following Monday. They will also bring home a book from the school library to share and enjoy with you.

The reading record will be checked by your child’s class teacher to ensure your child is reading three times a week at home.

Your child will be provided with a plastic book bag to transport their book in.

PE: Mondays and Fridays

Roll up and read will take place on Thursday mornings at 8:35am. We look forward to seeing you!

Useful links

Click the LINK!

 

TT Rockstars

Mathletics

Reading Eggs

Lexia

What are we learning about this year?

2025/2026

Year 2 LTP Curriculum maps

Autumn 2:

This term our focus is all about Islands!

Our Class Readers for Autumn 2 are:

Katie Morag

https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episodes/b04xdngw/katie-morag

Our author of the half term is Mini Grey

https://www.penguin.co.uk/authors/172584/mini-grey

For our Geography topic we are learning about ‘What is it like to live on an Island?’

Geography KO

For our Science topic we are learning about our bodies and how they change as we grow

Knowledge Organiser - Year 1 - Animals, Including Humans - All About Me PDF

For our DT topic we are learning about ‘How do we keep our luggage safe when we travel?’

DT AU2 KO

Week 2:

Its Anti Bullying week this week so we have been learning all about bullying and what to do if we or if someone we know is being bullied. This years theme is ‘Power for Good’. We filled in this sheet on trusted adults.

Week 1: This week we have made Islands for our Writing lesson! This will support us with our half term topic ‘Would you like to live on an Island?”

Autumn 1:

This term our focus is all about Super heroes!

Our Class Readers for Autumn 1 are:

Supertato

https://www.waterstones.com/super-tato

 

Our author of the half term is Anthony Browne

http://www.anthonybrownebooks.com

The Anthony Browne 10 Picture Books Collection- Look What I've Got, Through the Magic Mirror, Willy the Wimp, Willy the Champ, Willy and the Cloud, Willy the Dreamer, Piggybook, Silly Billy..etc by

For our Science topic we are learning about ‘What makes a superhero?’ Here is our Lozenge for this topic which shows what the children are learning

Knowledge Organiser - Year 2 - Animals, including humans 1 - growth PDF

Week 8:

We had so much fun on our Super Hero day this week.

We even had an Evil Pea hunt!

Week 7:

This week we have voted for who we want for our class school councillor!

 

 

Week 6:

For P.E. in Attack, Defend, Shoot this week we are learning to chest pass and bounce the ball to our partners.

Week 5

In Maths this week we are recapping our number bonds and their additions.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Hr-a5w_phY

In Science, we have looked at how hygiene is really important to keep us healthy. We used oil, cinnamon to conduct an experiment on how germs stay on our hands unless we use warm water and soap.

Week 4

This week for our writing hook we made our very own Supertato! The rest of the week are writing descriptions of Supertato.

Week 3

For Commando Joe’s this week we looked at what it takes to join the palace guard academy! We made our own Beefeater inspired hats and designed our own post stamp.

Week 2

This week we have introduced our class reader Supertato. Check out the website here for games and videos!

https://www.bbc.co.uk/cbeebies/shows/supertato

Week 1

In Year 2 this week we have had lots of fun settling into our new class room, meeting our teachers and saying hello to our friends after a long summer.

We have revisited the zones of regulation and reflected on our emotions.

In Maths we have begun place value and are relearning our numbers to 20.

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