Teacher: Mrs Phillips

Teaching Assistant:  Miss Woodard and Mrs Samson (mornings), Miss Taylor (afternoons)

PPA Teacher: Mrs Tucker

Welcome to Year Two

Mrs Phillips has worked at the Rosary school for over 15 years in many different year groups. She enjoys all things science and maths whilst also having a creative side, enjoying various musical and craft activities when relaxing. Mrs Phillips is the Curriculum lead for the school, leads Early Reading and Phonics and is also the Mentor for students and new teachers.

Your child will build on the skills learnt in Year 1 to complete the KS1 curriculum by the end of Year 2.

Our School Day

To find out details of how the Y2 pupils spend their time, please take a look at the timeline of our school day. Important times to note are arrival time (8.40am) and registration (8.50am). It is important the children are at school and settled in time for the day to begin.

Curriculum Support

The English national curriculum means children in different schools (at primary and secondary level) study the same subjects to similar standards - it's split into key stages with tests. If you would like to know more about each individual subject please visit our Curriculum Page. Each term our class topic will link in to the curriculum in a way that brings the subjects to life for the children. 

Autumn Term

This term our topic is My World and Me. Please look at the topic web below for more information.

PE

Please note the change to our PE days this term; they are Mondays and Fridays. The children will need to wear the Rosary PE kit to school on these days. Please click here to find out PE kit requirements.

Forest School

We are very lucky to be able to offer regular Forest School sessions to all our classes at the Rosary School. Our grounds are perfect to help the children connect and engage with the outdoors, and learn through active and exciting tasks and challenges such as den building, making a fire or tools, and identifying insects and birds. Y2 Forest School sessions are every three weeks on Friday.  Children will need to wear Forest School kit to school on these days, details of which can be found along with the session timetable, as links from the Forest School page.

Reading and Book Change

The children are encouraged to read the books they choose at school regularly. You can use Oxford Owl to select extra reading books for your child. It would be most helpful if you can take time to read with them every week and record your comments in their reading record. When they are familiar with the book they should change it for a new one. Our book change day is on Wednesday. 

Rainbow Spellings

Our Rainbow Spellings in each year group focus on 'tricky words' that are commonly misspelled or do not follow regular rules. These words are re-visited two years in a row and are tested regularly.

Maths

This term we will be reinforcing the strategies to use when doing addition, subtraction, multiplication and division calculations; encouraging the children to use the number bond facts they know and their knowledge of place value. They will also do statistics and measurement - capacity and temperature. Take a look at the Maths knowledge organisers below to help you understand what your child is learning.

Rainbow Maths

There is a National Curriculum requirement for children to know their times tables up to 12 x12 by the end of Year 4, at which point they take an online test. To support this objective, children from Y2 onwards take part in daily rainbow maths practice. Once children have completed the unit on multiplication in Y2, they start on the 'black' sheet and work their way up through red, orange, yellow and so on. The document below shows what is required for each colour.

Our Class Saint - St. Teresa of Calcutta

Feast Day: 5th September

Mother Teresa was a Roman Catholic nun and missionary.

She was born in 1910 as Anjezë Gonxhe Bojaxhiu. She first lived in Skopje, which is now the capital of North Macedonia in South-East Europe.

As a child, Anjezë loved the work of Roman Catholic missionaries. She then made the decision to become a nun and dedicate her life to the Catholic church.

At the age of 18, Teresa travelled to Ireland to learn English. Following this, she began the 'novitiate' - a period of preparation where she trained to become a nun. 

After giving her vows, she changed her name to Mary Teresa Bojaxhiu.

In India, she taught at the Loreta school for 20 years before becoming headmistress. It was around this time that Teresa claimed to hear the calling of God, who told her to help the sick and needy. At the time, India was very poor. Teresa felt she must do everything possible to ease their suffering.  

Mother Teresa is mostly known for her charitable work, rather than her life as a missionary. In 1950, she established the Missionaries of Charity - an organisation that cared for people in extreme poverty. In India, lots of people were afraid of diseases like leprosy or AIDs. But, through this organisation, Mother Teresa cared for them.  The congregation raised funds to build orphanages, hospitals and homes for the ill. Volunteers from the charity ran these places, including Mother Teresa. 

In 1979, she received the Nobel Peace Prize for her charity work. In 2016, Pope Francis canonised her as a Saint in the Catholic Church.  Mother Teresa changed the lives of thousands of people through her missionary work. She founded the Missionaries of Charity, who built orphanages, hospices, and care homes. She devoted her life to helping those less fortunate.

Additional Curriculum Resources

For further resources to support your child across all subjects, please visit our Curriculum page which features links to many useful sites and apps.