Year 2 – Holy Family RC Primary School

Welcome to Year 2!

A very warm welcome to our Year 2 class! My name is Miss McLaughlin, and I am the class teacher. Mrs Fox is our wonderful teaching assistant. We are both so excited to begin a new school year with the children and look forward to everything we will achieve together.

Year 2 is an important year for developing independence, confidence and resilience. We will encourage the children to take increasing responsibility for themselves, their learning and their choices, while providing plenty of support and encouragement along the way. Most importantly, we want every child to develop a genuine love of learning and of coming to school. We hope they will be curious, enthusiastic and proud of their achievements, while understanding that mistakes are an important part of learning and growing.

We aim to make our learning as practical, exciting and hands-on as possible, giving the children opportunities to explore, ask questions, share ideas and develop their curiosity about the world.

🏃 PE Days – Monday and Thursday.

📖 Home Learning –

Bookbags and home-school books should be returned every Wednesday.

Spelling tests take place on Thursdays.

New spellings, home learning and reading books given out on Thursday.

A key aspect in the progress of your child is the relationship between home and school. We are looking forward to working with you and helping your child reach their full potential.

Year 2 Weekly timetable 2025-26

Reading

In year 2, reading books will be set online weekly on Collins eBooks. Your child’s book will match the book that they are reading in school. It will also be at the correct reading level for your child based on their phonics ability.

Please encourage your child to read for 5 minutes every day. Developing fluency is significant in KS1 therefore reading the same book numerous times will support with this skill. Reading should be enjoyable so please encourage your child to read for pleasure at home as we do in school. Visiting the local library could also promote a love of reading for your child.

My Happy Mind

This academic year we have started the My Happy Mind programme. This consists of teaching the children about how their brains work and helping them to build resilient, balanced and happy minds at home and school. We complete each session as the children come into school on a Monday morning, this helps to begin the week positively.