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 so we encourage them to develop their independence and resilience ready for Key Stage Two. 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.
| Senior Teacher |
Miss Dimambro |
| Deer Teacher |
Miss Rae |
| Otters Teacher |
Miss Dimambro & Mrs Austin |
| Teaching Assistants |
Mrs Colborne and Mrs Wright |
Key Information
Year 2 Curriculum Overview: Click Here
Instagram: Avonwood.year.2
Homework: Click Here
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.
Curriculum Briefings 2024
At the beginning of each half term we invite parents and carers to our presentation which includes information on curriculum coverage and key dates for the halfterm ahead.
The key dates for the half term ahead and information on homework (including Reach for the Stars Challenges) are captured on the half termly curriculum handout, a paper copy of which is sent home with your child. The electronic version of the handout can also be found below:
Y2 Parent curriculum handout - Nov 2024
Y2 Parent curriculum handout - Sep 2024
If you were unable to attend the meeting, you can find the slides below:
Y2 Parent Curriculum Events - Nov 2024
Y2 Parent Curriculum Events - Sep 2024
From Autumn 2, we recorded the online briefing and this can be accessed below:
Y2 Curriculum Briefing, Nov 24
Year 2 Timetable - A Typical Day
At Avonwood our mantra is ‘Every Moment Matters,’ 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.
Links to helpful websites
Spelling common exception words
Authors reading aloud books
Revise number bonds, times tables, doubles and halves
Book recommendations