Welcome to Year Two
Meet The Team
Welcome to the Year 2 staff team. We are a friendly team, determined to help your children have a fantastic year at Avonwood Primary School. Year Two is such an exciting year as the children develop their skills from Year One. This is their final year in Key Stage One and it is the point at which the children are formally assessed through SATs and ongoing teacher assessment. If you require any help or have any questions, please do not hesitate to chat to us at drop off / pick up or contact the school and one of us will respond.
| Year Lead |
Mrs Millington |
| Deer Teacher |
Miss Rae |
| Otters Teacher |
Mrs Millington |
| Teaching Assistants |
Mrs Peckham, Mrs Sharp, Miss Langridge |
Key Information
Year 2 Curriculum Overview: Click Here
Twitter: @AvonwoodYear2
In Year 2, we love seeing the children mature and develop across the curriculum adding to the skills and knowledge they learned in previous years. We focus on deepening children’s understanding of the key concepts in reading, writing and maths. In reading, we work on children's fluency, adding expression and tone to engage others. We also develop children's reading comprehension, encouraging reading for understanding and reading for pleasure. Children will begin to write at a greater length in different styles and genres. In mathematics, we build on our number knowledge and calculation skills to begin to learn multiple strategies to problem-solve.
We offer many engaging and immersive opportunities for the children to learn about the world around them. These include hook days such as our ‘Airport Day’ and visiting The New Forest Wildlife Park.
In addition, we explore a wide range of engaging topics in our foundation subjects such as finding out about the history of our local area through using our school grounds and Kings Park being ‘Mini Mappers’. We investigate the question, ‘What do we know about the Great Fire of London and its impact?’ and learn about the habitats of different animals later in the year. We find out if Tom manages to rescue his dad when reading The Great Explorer by Chris Judge and learn about some real explorers as well as so much more!
Year 2 is a very important year as it is the final year in Key Stage 1, so we help prepare the children ready for their move into Key Stage 2.
Year 2 Curriculum Information Evening - September 2022
Year 2 Timetable - A Typical Day
At Avonwood our mantra is ‘Every Minute Counts,’ so please help us by arriving promptly at 8:50am. Morning break is 10 minutes, and we have a one-hour lunch. As you can see from our timetable below our days are action packed and the children have a variety of learning that certainly keeps everyone busy.
Home Learning
Our home learning activities allow the children to consolidate and recall previous knowledge. As this is the final year of Key Stage 1 you will notice our weekly home learning expectations increase to incorporate repetition style activities as it is proven to have a positive impact on learning. The English and Maths activities allow the children to practise new skills they have recently learned.
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Activity
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Desirable, expected or optional
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Frequency
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Reading
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Expected
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10 mins x 5 sessions a week
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Spellings
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Expected
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15 mins once per week
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Maths or English
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Desirable
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15 mins once per week
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Reach for the stars
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Optional
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Once a week
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Writing Challenge
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Optional
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Termly
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Links to helpful websites
Spelling common exception words
Authors reading aloud books
Revise number bonds, times tables, doubles and halves
Book recommendations