Welcome to Year 2

2025~2026

We are Irwin Class

Staff Team

Welcome to Year 2 Irwin Class. 

Our class teacher is Miss Wheeler. 

Our Learning Support Assistant's are Mrs Courtney, Miss Smith (Wednesday - Friday) and Miss Gibson (Monday - Wednesday). 

Curriculum

We're excited to share an overview of what your child will be learning in Year 2. Our curriculum aims to build on the solid foundations of previous years while encouraging independence, confidence and a love of learning. 

Our PE lessons will take place on Wednesdays. Please ensure your child comes to school in their school PE kit on this day each week. 

Writing 

 In Year 2, pupils will further develop their writing skills by focusing on:

• Grammar & punctuation: The children will learn the four types of sentences – statements, commands, questions and exclamations.

Consistently using full stops and capital letters, question marks, exclamation marks, commas in a list and apostrophes for contractions and singular processions.

Spelling: The children will be segmenting spoken words into phonemes and representing these by graphemes, spelling many correctly, learn how to spell common exception words; spell more words with contracted forms. They will add suffixes to spell longer words, including -ment, -ness, -ful, -less, -ly.

• Creative writing: Writing for a range of purposes – including writing narratives about personal experiences and experiences of others, poetry, real experiences, descriptions, lists, instructions and postcards.
• Handwriting: -Form lowercase letters correctly as well as capital letters and digits. Use spaces between words and develop fluency and neatness.

Reading

        Reading is a key focus in Year 2, with an emphasis on:

• Phonics & Word Reading - Continuing to use phonics to decode unfamiliar words. Recognise common suffixes (e.g. -ed, -ing, -est). Read most common words quickly without sounding them out (sight words). Self-correct when reading doesn't make sense.
• Fluency - Read aloud with expression and pace. Use punctuation to guide reading (e.g. pausing at full stops, changing tone for questions).   Reread to improve accuracy and understanding.
• Comprehension -Talk about what they’ve read. Make simple inferences (e.g. how a character feels). Predict what might happen next. Retell stories, including key events and details. Identify the main idea or message.

Children will take part in group and whole-class reading sessions, guided reading, and independent reading activities.

Maths

 In Year 2, we aim to deepen pupils’ understanding of key mathematical concepts through fluency, reasoning and problem-solving. Areas of focus include:

Number & Place Value

• Counting in steps of 2, 3, 5 and 10
• Recognising place value in two-digit numbers (e.g. 34 = 3 tens and 4 ones)
• Comparing and ordering numbers up to 100
• Using <, > and = signs
• Addition & Subtraction
• Adding and subtracting numbers up to 100
• Using number bonds to 20 and related facts
• Solving simple problems with addition and subtraction
• Using mental and written methods
• Multiplication & Division
• Recall of multiplication and division facts for 2, 5 and 10 times tables
• Using arrays, repeated addition and number lines
• Solving simple word problems
• Fractions
• Recognising ½, ⅓, ¼ and ¾ of shapes and amounts
• Understanding that fractions are part of a whole
• Measurement
• Telling the time to the nearest 5 minutes
• Reading time on analogue clock
• Measuring length, mass, temperature and capacity
• Using £ and p for money calculation

Geometry

• Identifying 2D and 3D shapes
• Describing position, direction and movement (e.g. left/right, clockwise)

Statistic

• Reading and creating simple pictograms, tally charts, block diagrams and tables.

A link to Numbots /Times Tables Rockstars can be found further down this page.

Useful links and documents:

Dates for your diary:

Tuesday 10th March 2026 - Class Photographs