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Little Wandle Phonics
Why learning to read is so important
- Reading is essential for all subject areas and improves life chances.
- Positive attitudes to reading and choosing to read have academic, social and emotional benefits for children.
How children learn to read
- Phonics is the only route to decoding.
- Learning to say the phonic sounds.
- By blending phonic sounds to read words.
- Increasing the child’s fluency in reading sounds, words and books.
Reading fully decodable books
- Children must read books consistent with their phonic knowledge.
- It is essential not to use other strategies to work out words (including guessing words, deducing meaning from pictures, grammar, context clues or whole word recognition).
- Books must be fully decodable and follow the Little Wandle scheme
- Children need to read books in a progressive sequence until they can decode unfamiliar words confidently.
The role of Parents’ and Carers’
- Have a positive impact on their child’s reading.
- Should model the importance of reading practice to develop fluency.
- Children take home books they have read at school to re-read at home to build fluency.
- There are two different types of books that pupils bring home: reading practice and books to share for pleasure.
- Reading at home encourages a love of books, along with developing vocabulary and discussion.
- Parents should use voices, expression, discuss unfamiliar vocabulary, talk about the pictures, and predict what might happen next.
- Give positive yet informative feedback in the home reading diary at least 3 times a week
Supporting your child with reading
Although your child will be taught to read at school, you can have a huge impact on their reading journey by continuing their practice at home.
There are two types of reading book that your child may bring home:
A reading practice book.
This will be at the correct phonic stage for your child. They should be able to read this fluently and independently.
A sharing book. Your child will not be able to read this on their own. This book is for you both to read and enjoy together.
Reading practice book
This book has been carefully matched to your child’s current reading level. If your child is reading it with little help, please don’t worry that it’s too easy – your child needs to develop fluency and confidence in reading.
Listen to them read the book. Remember to give them lots of praise – celebrate their success! If they can’t read a word, read it to them. After they have finished, talk about the book together.
Sharing book
In order to encourage your child to become a lifelong reader, it is important that they learn to read for pleasure. The sharing book is a book they have chosen for you to enjoy together.
Please remember that you shouldn’t expect your child to read this alone. Read it to or with them. Discuss the pictures, enjoy the story, predict what might happen next, use different voices for the characters, explore the facts in a non-fiction book. The main thing is that you have fun!
Programme Overview
Resources for Home
Handwriting and Pronunciation
Year 2 2024-2025
Autumn Term
RE - Zechariah and the temple
Today we learnt about the message that Zechariah received from the Angel Gabriel about the birth of his son. As Zechariah did not believe the Angel, he was unable to speak again until what he had said came true. We imagined Zechariah explaining to Elizabeth what had happened in the Temple and how he would be able to communicate the message without words.
Y2 RE Zechariah
Homework - Favourite Blackpool places
To end this half term, we celebrated our homework pieces by having a 'show & tell' session. We were able to look at all the work everyone had done as well as talk about their pictures, drawing and models. Some of us were brave enough to come to the front to talk about their favourite place in front of the whole class. Well done to everyone who took part.
Y2 Blackpool Homework
SHOWTOWN TRIP!
Wow! What a day. We were not going to let the rain dampen our spirits as we set off on our trip! After walking up Red Bank Road to the promenade, we caught the tram into Blackpool. On arrival at the Showtown Museum, we were introduced to Steph, Snappy, Seagull and Donkey and learnt all about the History of Blackpool and looked at some artefacts. Then we split off into groups to take part in the different activities. The workshop allowed us to discuss life by the seaside and the similarities and differences between then and now. We also used our senses to explore the seaside - the feely bags had things like seashells and feathers in and the scent bottles included the smell on sun cream and... donkey poo!! Then we looked at clothing through the ages and swimming costumes before having the chance to try some outfits on.
Around the museum we explored the seaside by taking snaps, reading fortunes and having a go at performing our own Punch and Judy show. The ringmaster put us through our paces, training us to be circus performers and then we designed our own illumination displays as well! A jam-packed time had by all, so we were ready for our lunch on the comedy carpet before heading home again by tram. We had a fab day learning about our home town.
Y2 Showtown Trip
RE - Baptism
Our recent focus in RE has been on baptism. We have looked at the meanings of signs and symbols associated with the rite of Baptism as well as the order of the service. In groups, we then acted out a Baptismal rite, using oil, water and following the script. Here are some pictures from one of the groups.
Y2 RE baptism
PE - throwing and catching - lesson 6
This was our final session in the unit so we had to bring all of our skills together to take part in a series of activities. After our warm up, we had to complete a throwing and catching relay, a 'beat the runner' race and then a variation on 'Piggy in the middle'
We all worked really hard and have really improved.
Y2 PE Aut 1.6
Fire Brigade Talk
On Friday afternoon, we had a visit from Ben, Brian and Darren from Bispham Fire Station. They talked to us about fire safety, smoke alarms, as well as teaching us the technique of 'Stop, Drop & Roll' if we were ever unlucky enough to have our clothing catch fire. We then watched a video of Smokey, the Fire Brigade Teddy, who taught us about how to escape a fire and create a fire plan. We then acted out what we would do in such an event. We were given homework by the Fire Service, to check we have working smoke alarms in our homes and to create a family fire plan.
Y2 Fire Brigade Talk
Maths - comparing objects
This week we have been comparing objects using 'more than' and 'less than' to compare them. Today we used objects to make inequalities and statements true. We have linked the vocabulary with the mathematical symbols of > and < as well.
Y2 Maths comparing objects
Advent Wreath
This year the school is working on producing the Liturgical Year in Art form. We were given the Advent section and on Wednesday morning, half the class worked on the art project. We enjoyed being arty and added our own fingerprints to one of our candles so we have made our mark on St Bernadette's. We were really pleased with the end result.
Y2 Advent Wreath
Fit2Glow
On Wednesday morning, half the class went to Moor Park Sports Centre to take part in BFC's Fit2Glow competition. They had lots of fun and had to really concentrate when the lights went out and they all glowed!
Harvest Assembly
We could not be prouder of the children for how well they performed in our Harvest Assembly. They sat beautifully, spoke fantastically, sang incredibly and samba-ed to new heights! Thank you for the support you have given the children in practising words, making donations and for enjoying the assembly with us.
Y2 Harvest Assembly
Eat Well, Move More - Wk 5
Our practical session this week involved the parachute and we had to work as a team to roll the ball around the edge - it was very tricky!
Then we looked at healthy drinks that we can choose to have. We tried sugar free cordial, orange juice and smoothies but nothing beats a glass of water though!
Y2 Eat Well Move More Wk5
PE - throwing and catching - lesson 5
This week we were working in teams to see if we could throw and catch the beanbag round our shape before the runner made it round! When we managed it with a beanbag, we then advanced to a ball! This week, we cooled down by doing some mindfulness looking.
Y2 PE Aut 1.5
Maths - 10s and 1s on a number line
This week we made a number line 0-100 using multiples of 10 and then looked for patterns and sequences on a 100 square. We then looked at 1s on the number line between two intervals and challenged our partner to label numbers we chose on a set of number lines.
Y2 Maths 10s and 1s on a number line
Eat Well, Move More - Wk 4
For our actove session this week, we played relay games working in teams. Then we discussed the amount and size of the portions of different food types we should eat each day. After this, we designed a healthy lunch box and then took home an overnight oats sample pot to try!
Y2 Eat Well Move More Wk4
PE - throwing and catching - lesson 4
Working with Mr Williams on developing our throwing skills. We had to think about how we were standing, where we were aiming and our arm placement.
Y2 PE Aut 1.4
RE - Responses and Pledges
In RE we have been discussing how we are stewards of God's world. We responded to the question, 'Why should we look after God's world?' and we then considered the problems are world is facing at the moment as well as some things we can do to help. We then made pledges, sharing what we could do at home to help show how we are being stewards.
Y2 RE responses and pledges
Happy Birthday!
As part of celebrating Nevaeh turning 7 today, Jackson learnt how to play 'Happy Birthday' on the bells for her. It was a lovely moment in class when he played it perfectly and then we all sang along too!
Y2 Happy Birthday bells
English - A way home for wolf -Retelling the story
After the Whoosh yesterday, we retold the story by creating our own story maps.
Y2 English - Retelling the story of Wilf
English - A way home for wolf -WHOOSH
Today Mrs KP gave a retelling of the story we have been looking at using the WHOOSH technique. This meant that we all took part in the retelling, taking on different roles and recalling the key part and characters.
Y2 English Whoosh
Phonics - Bridge to Spelling
We are working hard looking for patterns and spelling rules to help us in our writing. Today we were adding sound buttons, and looking at the connection between the short vowel sounds in the words and adding a /ck/ after it.
Y2 Phonics
Eat Well, Move More Wk3
Our outdoor activity involved us being Fruits and Ninjas! After running off so much energy, we discussed healthy snacks that we could eat to recharge our energy levels. We talked about swapping our snacks for healthier choices, before trying popcorn, raisins,malt loaf, cheese and tomatoes!
Y2 Eat Well Move More Wk3
Maths - flexible partitioning
We have been looking at partitioning numbers up to 100 into tens and ones so today we looked at other ways to partition the numbers, keeping the whole the same. We worked with our partners to each take a part of the whole!
Y2 Maths Flexible Partitioning
PE - throwing and catching lesson 3
Today, after our warm up we developed our teamwork through our activities as well as extending our throwing skills to work on our aim.
Y2 PE Aut 1.3
RE - Visiting Church
Today, we visited St Bernadette's Church with Year 4. As we entered onto the Church grounds, we reminded ourselves of church etiquette and how to be respectful and reverent at all times. We practised genuflecting as we faced the Blessed Sacrament in the tabernacle before entering our pew. We were “prayerfully silent”, so that we could focus on praying and reflecting. We recalled responses and knelt on the kneeler as well as sharing the sign of peace with those around us. It was really enjoyable working alongside our Year 4 partners.
Y2&Y4 Church Visit
Maths - Place Value
Lots and lots of work on place value this week, looking at the value of digits, writing numbers in digits and words. We were able to show numbers on the rekenreks and use base 10 to make them on place value charts!
Y2 Maths Place Value
Eat Well, Move More Wk1
We began a 6 week programme which helps us to think about getting active and eating healthy. This week we played parachute games with Megan and then tried vegetables with Lottie. It was fair to say that some vegetables were a huge hit and some were not!
Y2 Eat Well Move More Wk1
PE - throwing and catching
After a warm up, we began developing our throwing and catching skills this week. We extended this into using a racket too!
Y2 PE Aut 1.1
Science - Animals and their offspring
This week we have been looking at different animals and seeing if we could match the adult to the offspring. Some were easy but some were quite tricky! We could then classify them by this to see if there was a link between this and the animal type. For example, we found that mammals have offspring that look like them but amphibians do not.
Y2 Science Sorting
DT - Puppets
An amazing start to Y2 this week with everyone working hard on their creative skills to make different puppets. We looked at lots of different styles of puppets before making our own finger puppet. Then we designed a glove puppet from a design brief. We still have to finish those off but they are looking brilliant!
Y2 DT - puppets
Year 2 2023-2024
The next chapter in your child's learning is underway...
Summer 2024
Mini-Projects: Summer
Another amazing round of mini-projects made by the Year 2 children! Check out some of their projects below.
Yr2_Summerprojects
Brockholes Educational Visit
Year 2 had an amazing time at Brockholes, learning about a wide variety of minibeasts, exploring natural dens, pond dipping and bird spotting. It was a lovely day in the great outdoors with many experiences and opportunities taken.
Brockholes 2024_Year 2
Spring 2024
Just before Easter, Year 2, once again, explored the effects of using water colour paints and linked it into the death and Resurrection of Jesus Christ. It is a reminder of the suffering that our Lord experienced on Good Friday; juxtaposed with the joy of his Resurrection on Easter Sunday. Well done, Year 2, for your amazing efforts.
Elmer Day
Check out Year 2’s amazing Elmer vests! The children were very excited to get to work putting their designs into practise and making their very own, one-of-a-kind Elmer vest.
Yr2_ElmerDay
Expressive Art
We have tried a new Art unit this half term that looks at expressive art using a range of tools to apply paint that also leave a variety of marks once the paint is dried. In addition, we have explored mixing primary colours to make various hues of secondary colours.
Yr2_ExpressiveArt
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HSBC Visitor
Denise, from HSBC, very kindly came to talk to Year 2 about the importance of sensible spending and smart saving. Then children learned about the importance of managing money and even got to handle high-value notes and the new 50p coins with King Charles’ head on them.
Fractions
Year 2 have been learning to find fractions of an amount using sharing and making equal groups. They have practised this method using both concrete items and pictorial representation.
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Pizza Express visit
Year 2 had the amazing opportunity to visit Pizza Express in Lytham to learn how to make a traditional margherita pizza. The children learned a little about the history of the pizza before learning and applying skills to making a traditional Italian pizza. As always, behaviour was exemplary and the children had the most amazing experience.
Yr2: Pizza Express
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Spring 2 Mini Projects
Another amazing set of mini-projects from Year 2 this term. Lots of Easter related activities, Easter bonnets, creative and expressive arts, and sweet treats!
Yr2_SpringProjects
Measuring
Children were introduced to metres this week and were tasked to identify objects longer or shorter than a metre before measuring to find out how many metres long an item was. It was lovely to be able to get outside again!
Yr2_Measure
D.T: Mechanisms
Year 2 have worked hard to learn about wheels and axles as part of their work on Mechanisms. Check out their final designs below.
YR2_Mechanisms_2024
World Book Day
We celebrated World Book Day today with fancy dress, a whole school parade and we designed a book cover for the characters we dressed as.
Y2_WBD_2024
Maths – Shape
Check out some of our work on shape this half-term. We have been learning to identify properties of shapes, name them, sort them based on properties and combine them to create interesting patterns.
Mechanisms
As part of Design & Technology, we are learning about mechanisms. To start of our unit, we have learnt about vehicles and how they move. Mr. H brought his car onto the playground for children to explore and identify parts of a car. Our end goal is to make a model vehicle that moves on wheels.
Mindful calming
At the end of lunch, Year 2 have 10 minutes of down time that we call ‘Play-Doh Therapy’. Each week we have a them and the children have to create something using their imagination by manipulating the Play-doh.
Autumn 2023
How would you describe Jesus?
At the end of our unit on Advent, the children were challenged to create an image that shows the baby Jesus is the Light of the World. In addition to this, they had to think about words and phrases that describe Jesus and write these on the beams of light.
A Christmas Treat
A much deserved Christmas treat for Year 2 following their amazing performance of the Nativity. The elves had brought the children some scrumptious donuts and boxes of craft resources for the children create their Christmas Party hats.
The Elves final gift: Snowball fight
The last thing the elves left us before heading back to the North Pole was 2 buckets of snowballs and the instruction to have a snowball fight!
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Year 2 Nativity: 2023
We hope you enjoyed the Nativity this year! Here are a few images of Year 2 in their groups.
Y2_Nativity_2023
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Our Season of Advent
Here you can see our prayer area with a focus on Advent. During our prayer and liturgy, Mr. H has taught us about the symbols and meaning of the Jesse Tree and stories and key figures from the Old Testament; all paving the way for the coming of the Messiah.
We also learnt about the symbolism and meaning of the Advent Wreath, looking at the colours and materials used.
Autumn 2 Mini-Projects
Check out the amazing creativity in Year 2 for this half-term’s Mini-Projects! The children loved see what other children had created as well as sharing their own work with their friends.
Remembrance 2023
Following our whole-school Remembrance service, Year 2 visited the Prayer garden to place their poppies and have a moment of reflection, prayer or remembrance for the fallen soldiers, the survivors and the victims of war and conflict.
Our Lonely Inukshuks!
After a little practise with play-doh and taking inspiration from The Lonely Inukshuk, Year 2 have created some beautiful inukshuks of their very own OUT OF CLAY! Children applied their new skills to manipulate the clay and added water to help bond pieces together. We can’t wait to paint them!
Yr2ClayInukshuk
Autumn 1: Mini-Projects
Check out our A-MAZ-ING homework pieces for Autumn 1! The children have produced some brilliant pieces of work linked to our learning for this half-term. We have had timelines as tall as children, videos of chicks hatching, clay models, acrostic poems, pieces of art work, fact-files and much more.
Yr2Aut1MiniProjects
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Science: Clean Hands
As part of our Science and PSHE this half term, children learnt about the importance and impact of using soap when washing their hands. The children were quite impressed with the magical impact of the soap in the peppered water.
Let’s Play – doh!
We have started our unit on sculptures this week and what better way to start than playing with Play-doh! Children were tasked with showing of their skills to create Wilf from our class text (A Way Home for Wolf) before sharing their skills and applying those taught. Children then went on to create their own animal sculptures and they even got to use sculpting tools.
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Forest School: Autumn
We had an amazing first Forest School of the year, perfectly accompanied by the beautiful sunshine. The children loved exploring the garden in all its wildness and overgrown plant life. We even saw our frog!
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Year 2 2022-2023
Sponsored Exercise
We all had a great time taking part in the sponsored exercise circuit. We did spotty dogs, mountain climbers, press ups and star jumps. Look how strong we are!
Y2 Sponsored Exercise
Sports Day
A big well done to all of Year 2 for a great performance in all of the activities during sports day. We had beanbag races, an obstacle course, relay, egg and spoon race and of course a sack race. All of the children cheered each other on and showed great sportsmanship. We even had a little race for the parents to join in!
Imagine That
On Wednesday, Years 1 and 2 had an amazing trip to 'Imagine That!' in Liverpool. They became hairdressers, shop assistants, builders and firefighters in 'The Village' before going through to the art area where they could get creative with painting - they could even paint a car! They then went on to become scientists in the science rooms, making slime and snow. Everybody had a wonderful day and were so impressed with the venue!
Reading with Bailey
We are lucky that Bailey is coming into school to read with the whole class and a few of us on our own every week. Each week we have a 'word of the week' and the winner gets to perform a trick with Bailey. She absolutely loves popping bubbles.
St Bernadette's Feast Day
In class we have learnt all about St Bernadette's visions of Our Lady of Lourdes. We retold the events when St Bernadette found the spring. To celebrate, as a school we enjoyed some ice-cream from Manfredi's ice-cream. Thank you, it was delicious!
Stations of the Cross
We have been over to church to look at the stations of the Cross reflections by the children at our school. We all thought about what Jesus went through during the events of Good Friday. As a class, we produced a reflection on...
Station 7 - Jesus fell for a second time
Station 9 - Jesus fell for a third time
Station 13 - Jesus was taken down from the cross
Fire Safety
We have had a visit from the fire brigade to help us think about keeping safe in a fire. We practised 'Stop! Drop! and Roll!' and shouted 'FIRE!' as loud as we could so that people around us could hear.
Let it Snow
Even though there wasn't too much of it, we all loved being able to get out and play in the snow!
World Book Day
Look how fabulous everybody looked for World Book Day! We enjoyed drawing and writing a character description about the character we dressed up as. We looked at the book 'The Day the Crayons Quit' and completed some writing as if we were one of the crayons. We had so much fun!
Great Fire of London Zoom
In Summer term, we will be looking at The Great Fire of London and had the opportunity for an online zoom session with a lady from the national archive. We loved learning all about what the national archive is and how to be history detectives to find information out about the Great Fire of London. We learnt a lot and are all set for our Great Fire of London learning in a few weeks!
Fraction Man
We all enjoyed learning the story of 'Fraction Man' by using actions to help us memorise the language used throughout.
Fieldwork of Bispham
We have been looking at urban and rural areas in our geography lessons and thinking about where our local area fits with this. We went on a walk around Bispham and made a note of all of the different features that would help us decide whether our area is urban or rural. We really enjoyed exploring.
Making a Map of School
In Geography the children looked at different features they could spot on our school grounds. They then attempted to make this with different building materials and used this knowledge to design a map for somebody who may come and visit our school.
Tramshed Visit
Year 2 were really lucky that when Tramshed came in to perform 'Goldilocks and the Three Bears' for KS1, they could take part in a workshop after. They all had an amazing time and learnt a lot!
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Christmas Dinner
The children loved their Christmas Dinner! They all made their own hats, pulled crackers and demolished pigs in blanket. There was lots of lovely singing of Christmas songs too!
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Elf Run
Year 2 enjoyed taking part in the Elf Run to raise money for Brian House. They faced different obstacles as the made their way around the track.
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Pumpkin Soup
We all enjoyed making pumpkin soup and flatbreads as part of our English work where we are looking at the book 'Pumpkin Soup'.
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Blackpool History Afternoon
We were lucky enough to have some visitors in for an afternoon of Blackpool fun! We learnt all about how Blackpool holidays have changed over the years as well as looking at the clothes people wore, the animals in Blackpool (particularly donkeys), different stages of the tower being built and about what creatures came out of different shells. We had so much fun!
Forest School
We have loved taking part in Forest School this half term. We have been harvesting onions, runner beans and peas; planting seeds and bulbs; learning how to hammer a nail; learning how to drill in a screw; playing in the mud kitchen; building dens and making different foods on around the camp fire.
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Fit2Glow
Some of the children represented our class at the Fit2Glow competition where they played glow in the dark football against other local schools. They loved running around in the dark wearing illuminous colours. The team showed great sportsmanship and did the school proud!
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Mental Health Day Yoga
As part of mental health awareness day, we took part in a yoga session where we thought about our breathing through different yoga poses.
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