Year 2 Homework
Completing homework plays an important part in ensuring children can consolidate new learning. Little and often is the key to securing new knowledge into long-term memory. In Year 2, the children are developing many of their early reading skills and therefore it is important that they are able to practise their reading, writing and maths at home. Please see below an outline of our homework tasks for this half term.
Weekly Homework
Every Friday, your child will bring home a short homework activity. This will alternate between reading, writing and maths tasks.
The activity will have 5 parts, one to complete at home each day of the week. The activities will be in line with what your child has already learnt in school. Most activities will come with a QR code which will link to a video modelling the activity.
Number Bonds
Confident and accurate number bond recall is a critical skill that all children require. It enables them to work efficiently when problem solving across the maths curriculum and is a necessity for everyday life. It is expected that children can represent and use number bonds and related subtraction facts within 20 by the end of Year 2 (e.g. I know that 3 + 5 = 8, 4 + 4 = 8 / 12 + 8 = 20, 11 + 9 = 20) and also recall multiplication and division facts for the 2, 5 and 10 times tables.
To support the children in learning their number bonds and to quicken their recall, we are introducing a weekly Number Bonds Challenge. Children will have the opportunity once a week to play Hit the Button with the aim of scoring high enough to progress on to the next level.
Hit the Button is an online game which is free to access on all devices – perfect for practising at home! Click here to go to the Hit The Button website.
We encourage the children to use this as much as possible as it will strengthen their recall speed and accuracy.