Year 2
All children at Westwood Academy have access to Purple Mash. Your child’s teacher will set work on here. Check the alert button on your child’s home page for work that has been set. Otherwise, there are 1000s of fun resources for your child to explore on here, for all curriculum areas.
https://www.purplemash.com/sch/westwood-ol9
Reading
Accelerated Reader
Children in Year 6 have access to our Accelerated Reader programme. Books on Accelerated Reader will have an orange sticker on their spine. Each child has an individual login and the children can access a quiz about each text by following this link:
https://ukhosted13.renlearn.co.uk/6013217/
All children now have access to MyOn which is an online library, containing thousands of books, quizzes and book reviews. Children should have their logins for this in their yellow reading records.
Follow the link here- https://www.myon.co.uk/login/index.html
Phonics
Watch and Learn
Letters and Sounds
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCP_FbjYUP_UtldV2K_-niWw
The Department for Education have released some great, easy to follow phonics lessons that will support the teaching of phonics at home. They are a fun way to learn and revisit different sound families.
Mr Thorne and Geraldine the Giraffe
https://www.youtube.com/user/breakthruchris
The children love watching Geraldine the Giraffe and Mr Thorne’s Phonics. You can use the ‘YouTube Kids’ app to make sure your children aren’t exposed to inappropriate advertisements.
Alphablocks
bbc.co.uk/cbeebies/shows/alphablocks
An excellent BBC resource for your child to watch. Available on iPlayer.
Play Games
Teach Your Monster to Read
https://www.teachyourmonstertoread.com/
A fabulous Phonics game! Children can progress through levels suited to their Phonics Phase. Free to use on a laptop or computer, but apps also available for iPhone, iPad, Android and Kindle tablets.
These websites are excellent for playing phonics games with your child:
Maths
All children in Y2 have been issued with a TT Rockstars login to practise their times tables:
play.ttrockstars.com/auth/school/student
Numberblocks is another excellent BBC resource available on iPlayer. Watch here:
bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episodes/b08bzfnh/numberblocks.
Topic
For all our topics, children are provided with a rubric with lots of ideas for projects they can complete at home.
In Autumn 1, we learn all about farm animals!
In Autumn 2, the children get to explore space and all its wonders!
In Spring 1, we start a geography unit all about India!
In Spring 2, we learn about some of the important historic figures who shaped our world.
In Summer 1, we learn about all the different holiday we can go on.
Music
Oldham Music Development have put together a resource for children in Reception to access from home also. Please see the password underneath to log in to the reception area of The Music Service Website;
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