Y2GD – Aston Hall Junior & Infant School

Welcome

to class Y2GD

Mrs Ditchburn

Meet your teacher

Welcome to Year 2 everyone! I’m really happy that I will be in Year 2 again this year, as it means I get to teach all of you! I know you all already from seeing you at playtimes and when we have worked as a Key Stage 1 team, and I’m really looking forward to getting to know you better!

I’ve taught at Aston Hall since 2012 and I have loved every minute of it. I have taught across both Key Stage 1 and Foundation Stage throughout my teaching career.

I love teaching and I especially enjoy teaching children to read and love books like I do, as reading is a real passion of mine. In my free time I enjoy Disney, Football, Ice Hockey and all things geeky- especially Star Wars and the Marvel Universe! (My favourite superheroes are Hawkeye and Captain America). I’ve even been to conventions and have met Hawkeye and Aqua man in real life, which was very exciting!

Meet your Teaching Assistants

Miss Bell

Hello, I’m Mrs Bell and I’ve worked at Aston Hall School for just over 10 years now. In my time here, I’ve been an SMSA and help to run Breakfast Club. More recently I have become a Teaching Assistant working across both EYFS and Key Stage 1 – I absolutely love my job! I especially like to help children with their Phonics. I was once a former pupil of Aston Hall and both my children have attended here too.

In my spare time I love to travel with my family exploring new places and love going for long walks with my dog Bonnie.

Mrs Gray

Hi my name is Mrs Gray. I’m new to Aston hall as a teaching assistant but know the school very well due to my 3 boys attending. I’ve got serval years of experience working with children at other schools and I’m really looking forward to building new relationships with all of the children at Aston Hall.

In my spare time I love to travel and explore new places with my husband, children and our dogs Milo and Roxy in our campervan.

Miss Jarvis

Hi I’m Miss Jarvis and I have recently been appointed as a Teaching assistant here at Aston Hall. I have previously worked at Aston Hall in the last couple of years in roles as SMSA and a breakfast club assistant, and many will have seen my face before as my child also attends the school. I am a dedicated teaching assistant with 7 years experience working within a primary school setting. I enjoy engaging with children and providing a positive outlook to their time at school. I love to plan and organise fun activities tailored towards a diverse range of children creating equal opportunities

Areas of Learning

Phonics:
Within Year 2 we will teach Little Wandle Phonics daily for the first half term. We will then move onto the Little Wandle Spelling programme in Autumn 2 and Spelling will be taught once a day from that point on.

We also teach 30-minute reading sessions which focus on comprehension. We aim to expand children’s inference, prediction and retrieval skills as well as developing their understanding of vocabulary. You can help this at home by reading with your child daily and asking your child questions about what they have read. We will listen to your child read in school and provide them with a reading book matched to their phonics or fluency level.

Our first text for the Spring term is ‘Dinosaur Department Store’ by Lily Murray and Richard Merritt. This book will provide a learning hook for some super writing in our English lessons. After half term we will move on to ‘The Day the Crayons Quit’ by the author Drew Daywalt. This book is funny and entertaining and we know the children will love it!

In Science we will be learning about Animals and their habitats. Y1s will learn to name, describe and classify animals and look at their habitats and diets. Y2s will look at how to classify whether something is living/never been alive/dead and look at the processes needed to show something is alive. They will also closely explore habitats, micro-habitats and food chains.

In Geography this term, we will be looking at the Arctic. We will discover how to use compass points, human and physical features of the Arctic and the climate. We will be comparing Rotherham to Svalbard. In History, we will learn about the history of transport. We will look at photographs of types of transport from the past and how they have changed, visit the Railway Museum, understand the impact of travel and how we can now travel to space. We will also be studying significant people linked to transport and travel, such as Robert Stephenson.

Class Information

In the Autumn term we will be learning about places that are familiar to you already in History and Geography- Our School and our Local Area! We will be learning about how schools were different in the past and compare to schools in the present. As part of our Geography we will be going on walks around the local area and completing fieldwork and looking at our school grounds and Aston. Our first Novel Study text for KS1 is still to be confirmed, but we will also be focusing on ‘Into the forest’ by Anthony Browne in Autumn 2.

In Science we will be learning all about Humans! We will look at how humans grow and the functions of different parts of our bodies. Within Maths we will be starting off by learning about place value and then moving onto addition and subtraction. We will have a big focus on learning number facts such as number bonds to 10/20 and their related facts as this will help us for the rest of Year 2.

Keep an eye on our class dojo page throughout the term as we will be updating it regularly with messages, pictures and information about current learning. Homework in KS1 is through a ‘menu system’. Each half term children will receive a homework sheet with a selection of activities to complete and return each week. They can select their own activity to complete. Homework is sent out on a Friday and we expect it to be handed in by the following Wednesday. We will also be assigning learning on IXL that is relevant to our class focus within Maths.

Class News

Colour Wheels in Y2

Y2 Scarborough Trip

Premier Martial Arts Visit

Fractions in Y2