Year 2 - Ms Holmes 2024 - 2025
Mrs Holmes
Welcome to Year 2!
In Year 2, you will find me (Ms Holmes) the class teacher, 3 amazing teaching assistants (Mrs Walker, Miss Richards and Miss Brown) and 30 hardworking children!
If you would like to support your child more at home, please follow the links below:
Maths
- Revise your number bonds, times-tables, doubles and halves:
https://www.topmarks.co.uk/maths-games/hit-the-button
- Addition and subtraction number fact families (0-100)
https://www.topmarks.co.uk/number-facts/number-fact-families
- Pick a skill you want to go practise: https://uk.ixl.com/math/year-2
- Short videos and activity sheets based on the Year 2 curriculum*:https://whiterosemaths.com/homelearning/year-2/
English
- Learn about suffixes and play the quiz: https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/topics/z8mxrwx/articles/zwgbcwx
- Practice spelling Common Exception Words and select Year 2:
http://www.ictgames.com/littleBirdSpelling/
- Pick a picture for some writing inspiration:
https://www.literacyshed.com/the-ks1-shed.html
- Watch the introductory video and pick a writing challenge:
https://litfilmfest.com/playlists/
- Free E books for children:
https://www.oxfordowl.co.uk/for-home/find-a-book/library-page/
- Read a book from the e library:
- Click the link to a web page with a variety of books read aloud by authors*:
https://www.katemessner.com/learning-at-home-resources-for-primary-grades-prek-2/
Science
- Fun science activities for home*:
https://pstt.org.uk/resources/curriculum-materials/Science-Fun-at-Home
- Range of games and activities*:
General
- http://www.twinkl.co.uk (free printable resources)
- https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/levels/z3g4d2p (covers a wide range of subjects across the KS1 curriculum)
- https://www.duolingo.com/welcome (to support learning in Spanish)
- https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/primary (daily lessons on a range of subjects)*
- https://www.typing.com/student/games (to practise typing skills)
Well-being
- Try some yoga:
https://www.cosmickids.com/category/watch/?duration=short&changed=duration
- Joe Wicks ‘PE with Joe’
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCAxW1XT0iEJo0TYlRfn6rYQ
- Click the weblink below to find out how children and young people can practise kindness every day. Try some of the kindness acts at home, create your own kindness calendar and / or create a booklet of your kind acts*:
https://www.redcross.org.uk/get-involved/teaching-resources/kindness-calendar
The documents within the link can be accessed below, along with 'April's Happiness Calendar':