Year 2 Spring Term 2025

Dear Parents/Carers,

Blwyddyn Newydd Dda! Welcome back to a new term. 

Much of this term’s work will be based on our new topic ‘Towers, turrets and tiaras’ with links made to celebrations such as St Dwynwen’s Day, St David’s Day and religious festivals. We will be working collaboratively with Year 1 and 3 as this is a shared topic. The children have already had the opportunity to share their ideas and interests about what they'd like to learn within our topic. We will be looking at local castles and others around Wales and learning about their history and heritage. We will also explore a range of ‘towers’ from around the world and finding out such things as, how tall they are and why they look the way they do. We will be using a range of non-fiction and fiction texts as a basis for our work. Please send in any books or items of interest related to the class topic for ‘show and tell’.     

The children will continue to learn and consolidate the Read Write Inc. phonic patterns and will be encouraged to apply these to their independent reading and writing. They will continue to receive differentiated weekly spelling tests covering a range of related patterns. These tests will resume on 16.1.25. In creative writing we will look at vocabulary development, and using conjunctions such as 'but, 'so' and 'because' to extend sentences. Literacy across the curriculum will be developed through topic related themes.

Please ensure that your child has their book bag and ‘reading record’ in school on a Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday.  Please listen to your child read as often as possible and make a weekly comment in the reading record, these are really helpful.  Your child will continue to be able to select a book of their choice from the school library to share with you at home.

Mathematics will be taught through a range of practical activities as well as more formal recording. This will involve varied number work and activities related to shape, money and measures. Much of this will also be reinforced through topic related Numeracy across the curriculum. The children will continue to receive differentiated times table tests.

PE will be held on Thursday morning and a Friday afternoon (kit can remain in school). Please can you ensure that your child wears or has a pair of trainers in school on a Thursday as PE sessions may be held outside if the weather is suitable. Forest school will be on a Thursday afternoon. Please ensure that your child has suitable ‘named’ clothing for these activities, including appropriate footwear. As Forest school will be during the last session of the day, the children will be sent home in their Forest School clothing.

Please continue to send a fruit/vegetable snack in a named box/bag for your child to eat at playtime as well as a named water bottle for them to drink from throughout the day.

We continue to really struggle with space in the classroom for large school bags. If at all possible, we ask that the children do not bring bags to school other than a lunch box and flat bookbag. Many thanks for your cooperation with this.   

Finally, if you have any queries or concerns, please do not hesitate to contact us via the school office 203728 or email PenYFro.Primary@swansea-edunet.gov.uk and we will get back to you.

Kind Regards,

Mrs Rees, Mrs Barratt and Ms Macfarlane (Friday’s class teacher)

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