Class Teacher – Miss Nicki Boyd
Year 2 marks the end of Key Stage 1 and the beginning of Key Stage 2. This transition can be daunting for some, but it’s also an exciting year in their primary school journey. My aim is to create a cheerful classroom and provide an engaging, creative curriculum that incorporates opportunities for active, hands-on learning. I want to help children aim high and achieve together. We hope to foster a resilient attitude towards learning as a team, where pupils learn from their mistakes.
In English, we continue to develop your child’s reading skills through daily phonics sessions and encourage a love of reading with daily shared reading time. Comprehension is developed through class-guided reading, where children actively participate in discussions about the texts, explaining their understanding of characters and plots. Dedicated independent reading time and access to a diverse class library help build their confidence and enthusiasm as readers.
We aim to create a culture where children love writing. To spark their interest, we use a variety of hooks, such as short stories, videos, or pieces of poetry. Through these, children learn to write for different purposes and audiences. They become familiar with writing expectations through shared and modelled writing, and they develop an understanding of the different stages of writing. As they plan, link ideas, and use a range of sentence types and vocabulary, they also learn to check their writing by re-reading and making proofreading corrections.
In Maths, we begin with practical, hands-on activities using concrete apparatus. As the year progresses, children begin to work with more abstract and pictorial methods. This includes the four basic calculations: addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division. Additionally, children learn to tell the time to the nearest 5 minutes, identify properties of 2D and 3D shapes, measure weight, capacity, and length, and are introduced to statistics through tally charts, pictograms, and bar charts. With a strong foundation in arithmetic, we give children the tools and confidence to tackle problem-solving and reasoning questions. Our ‘mastery’ approach to maths focuses on deepening understanding across the breadth of the curriculum.
Please find a link below to discover the other exciting topics children will cover in Year 2!
