Welcome to the Year 2 Class Page!
Please explore the page to find out information about what your child will be learning each term, along with letters and other useful documents.
The staff in Year 2 are Mr Owen Stratford (Teacher) and Mrs Louisa Smith (Teaching Assistant); please do not hesitate to contact a member of the class team if you have any questions or queries.
Click here for the Year 2 2026/2027 Learning Page
Termly Information
Please click on the links to open documents.
Letters to Parents
Timetable
Learning Overview
Previous Learning:
Supporting Your Child At Home
Reading Recommendations and Supporting Reading at Home
At Cropredy C of E Primary School we believe that reading opens doors to imagination, knowledge, and lifelong learning. The recommended reading list is designed to inspire a love of books in students. Whether students are exploring new genres, deepening their understanding of the world, or simply enjoying a great story, there’s something here for everyone.
Books For Topics Recommendations
If as a parent, you need some ideas for supporting reading at home, use the documents below, or speak to your child’s teacher.
Reading With Your Child At Home
In Key Stage 1 (Years 1 and 2) we encourage each child to read to an adult at home five times each week. There are stars and certificates to be earned if children read regularly!
Supporting Handwriting at Home
Letter-join handwriting videos are available for you to watch with your child at home. They include activities to develop fine and gross motor skills, warm-ups, tripod grip, and the correct way to hold a pencil.
Regular practice helps your child develop the strength, coordination and control needed for fluent, legible and comfortable handwriting, while supporting the handwriting skills they are learning in school.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y3io9l6YDLE – Fine Motor Skills
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qLBDhDsEh_c – Gross Motor Skills
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LT4uOe69X_o – Tripod Grip
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7IuxQPsI4-4 – How to hold a pencil with warm-ups
Useful Websites
General
BBC Bitesize
Useful resources and games for maths, literacy (including phonics) and science
Topmarks Educational Resources
Packed with resources! We use some of the maths games to support mental maths practice for example. Many games and activities linked to all curriculum areas. Links to other useful websites are also on here. You can search by subject or Key Stage.
Literacy/Phonics
ICT Games
A website with many games linked to different areas of literacy learning.
PhonicsPlay
A website children are familiar with as we use it in school. It links to the phonics phases and has some very good games for helping to consolidate phonics skills.
Roy The Zebra – Spelling Games
Useful reading/phonics games with many areas of learning e.g. alphabetical order, all phonic patterns, rhyme.
Roy The Zebra – Reading Games
Lots of good ideas for supporting with punctuation and other sentence level learning.
Maths
Maths Games
Some of the same games also on Top Marks website. Lots of excellent ideas for practising mental maths skills.
Crickweb
Excellent series of games and activities linked to all areas of mathematics. We have used some of the money activities and always use the large hundred square – excellent for supporting all calculations and counting activities.
nrich
The nrich website contains many excellent maths challenges for children. The one, two or three stars show how challenging they are. Excellent for getting children to apply their problem solving skills across different areas of mathematics. Again, some of these ideas are adapted for use in the classroom. There is a good ‘student area’ with online activities.
Mathszone
Another site with many fun but challenging activities linked to all areas of maths.
There are many more websites out there but we cannot vouch for usefulness! If in doubt, please come and ask us.