Spelling and Reading in Year 2

 As we discussed in our Year 2 welcome meeting in September, we have changed the way we work with Twinkl go this year due to changes in the website.  

We listen to the children read every day at school through our guided reading sessions - As modelled in our parent/teacher reading session at school.  We do not write in the children's yellow diaries everyday as this would be very time consuming and we would like to focus our efforts on physical learning, rather than writing in their books.  We do however check these books once a week to see the frequency of reading at home so please continue to note when your child has read to you - a signature will suffice with the book title.  We will also begin to acknowledge when your child has read in a smaller group with us and not just 1:1.

Our yellow books are not for messages that need to be seen on that day.  Please refer any messages to the team, or to a member of staff on gate duty who will ensure that we are given any notes.

Spellings are updated every Tuesday, when the children are asked to place their spelling card in the basket in order for them to be updated.  Any practise within those cards is acknowledged and rewarded within school each week.  We are also working on a way to reward children for their efforts with reading at home and we will update you with these ideas as soon as we can!

As per our reading and spelling post on Tuesday, reading books and spellings have been updated.  We have also kept previous texts on the children's accounts as we also realise that some books are now quite lengthy so may need more time.

Thank you for your continued support.  We are having an amazing year of learning so far!

The Year 2 team