Our Team 2026-27
Teachers |
Teaching Assistants |
Miss R Lawton Mr J Wood (Wed) |
Miss S. Birtles Mis K-A Stoneswood |
Class Governor: Lesley Stansfield
Year 2 Classroom
Take a look at our classroom.
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Year 2 Timetable 2025-26 | [pdf 148KB] |
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Curriculum Overview 2025-26
Please select the document below.
SMSC Curriculum Overview
Please select the document below.
Year 2 Virtual Library
Year 2 Recommended Reading List
Giving children access to all varieties of literature is extremely important for their success. Reading is a key life skill which is crucial to developing language skills and access to the wider curriculum. It provides children with the chance to respond and develop personal opinions encouraging deeper thoughts and their imagination. Our aim is to develop a love and passion for reading both at home and school. We have specially selected high quality reading books for each year group. Some of these books can be found in the classroom and some are available for loan at Lees library. Encourage your child to read as many of these books as possible throughout the year.
Please select the document below to see the books we recommend.
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ST THOMAS' LEESFIELD YEAR 2 RECOMMENDED READING LIST | [pdf 250KB] |
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Core Subject Resources
Topic Resources Summer Term Second Half 2026
Please click on the links to access resources for the topics you are learning this half term.
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UK Explorers |
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Human and Physical Geography |
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Colour |
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Plant Life Cycles |
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Consolidation of Learning |
Summer Term
At St Thomas’ we value the link between home and school and we recognise parental support is vital to a child’s progress and education. This year, we have developed how our children will complete home learning tasks, using evidence informed guidance from the Education Endowment Fund. Below are a range of age-appropriate ways that you can help support your child’s learning from home, complimenting their classroom work and ensuring accelerated progress. Please encourage your child to engage in these tasks, little and often, and let us know how they have done by writing in your child’s planner. Parental support for homework can promote the self-regulation in children necessary to achieve academic goals including goal-setting, planning, perseverance, and the management of time, materials, attentiveness, and emotions. There are learning opportunities all around us so let us embrace them and develop confident, well-rounded young people, who can flourish in the modern world.
Reading
- reading your school book four times a week
- re-reading your book for fluency and understanding
- sound talking the tricky sounds using your robot arms
- reading different books and materials (non-fiction)
- reading your library book and being responsible for returning your book
- listening to audiobooks (the library have free audiobooks on 'BorrowBox'
Writing
- Practise spellings in booklet
- practise letter formation in your handwriting home learning book
- practise writing your full name using a capital letter
- free writing - diaries, shopping list, stories, doodling
- using conjunctions like but, because, and, so
Maths
- number bonds to 10 and 20
- counting forwards and backwards up to 100
- playing shop with coins
- recognise 2D and 3D shapes in your environment
- telling the time on an analogue clock
Personal Development
- confidently speaking to others such as ordering your own food in a restaurant
- being active - going to the park, swimming, bike ride, ball games, dancing etc.
- helping around the house, tidying your room, helping put the washing out, baking etc.
- playing board and card games
- exploring the outdoors
- going on a visit
- spending time with family
- being curious
- work on your Leesfield Life Skills (as listed in your planners)
Times Tables Rock Stars
Please visit the website by clicking on the picture link and login. If you need help to login please contact your child's class teacher.
Summer Term Second Half
We will continue to work on improving our ball skills and strategies for outdoor team games. We will also be practising for our Sports Day events.
In PE this half term, Year 2 will be developing their skills for invasion games, improving their fitness levels and strategies for team working. We will also work on ball skills: sending and receiving a ball and different ways to throw and catch accurately.
Summer Term
Complete our Home Learning Circle.
Reading – 4x a week. Please write in the planner to indicate when your child has read and bring their reading book every day.
Weekly spellings – practise the spellings from the booklet little and often.
Library visits are fortnightly on Wednesday – please return library books.
Key Assessment Criteria for Year 2
Please access the documentation below about key assessment criteria in this class.
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Year-2-Common-Exception-Word-Checklist | [pdf 82KB] |
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Year 2 Key Assessment Criteria Maths - Expected BBBs | [pdf 115KB] |
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Year 2 Key Assessment Criteria - Expected Writing | [pdf 196KB] |
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Year 2 Key Assessment Criteria - Expected Reading | [pdf 131KB] |
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Year 2 Key Assessment Criteria - Expected Oracy | [pdf 179KB] |
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Year 2 Key Assessment Criteria - Exceeding Writing | [pdf 264KB] |
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Year 2 Key Assessment Criteria - Exceeding Reading | [pdf 182KB] |
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Year 2 Key Assessment Criteria - Exceeding Maths | [pdf 274KB] |
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Year 2 Key Assessment Criteria - Exceeding Oracy | [pdf 185KB] |
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Year 2 Key Assessment Criteria - Science Expected | [pdf 104KB] |
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