Year 2 Blog Friday 10th October 2025

Date: 10th Oct 2025 @ 11:36am

Home Practice

Reading: In Year 2, children should read for at least 15/20 minutes every night and talk about the book.

This will help with understanding the text and learning new words.

WE HAVE NOTICED THAT SOME CHILDREN HAVE NOT CHANGED THEIR BOOKS RECENTLY.

A FEW MINUTES OF READING EVERY NIGHT REALLY MAKES A DIFFERENCE. THANKS.

Remember you will get a sticker on your book mark for every book you read!

Spelling: Please practise these spellings for your quiz on Friday (17.10.25): 

wild    climb      most     only       both      old     cold      gold        hold      told   

Sumdog: Complete the 'Add 3 or 4 one-digit numbers' challenge.

We have also included a spelling challenge to help your child learn the spellings above.

Counting: 

At home, count in 10's forwards and backwards but start on a 1-digit number.

For example, 2, 12, 22, 32, 42, 52 or 7, 17, 27, 37, 47, 57 or 8, 18, 28, 38, 48, 58, 68. 

What do you notice about the numbers you are counting each time?

You may also like to practise the 10x, 5x and 2x table on Hit The Button. Follow the link below:

https://www.topmarks.co.uk/maths-games/hit-the-button 

English

This week we have become owl experts. We read pieces of non-fiction writing about owls and wrote down all the facts we could find.

We learnt about the features of a non-chronological report, wrote a plan and started to write our own report.

We read our reports to the children in Reception and Year 3.

Phonics

We have been revising ai as in snail, ay as in play, ey as in grey.

Maths

The children have been adding/subtracting 2 digit numbers, 26+32 or 49-33 using tens and ones apparatus, lines and dots and by mental partitioning methods. We have also continued our work on number bonds to 10, 20 and 100. This came in useful when we were adding three 1-digit numbers together. For example, 3+5+7=15. The children calculated 3+7=10 first, then added the five to make 15.

RE

This week, we have revisited the sacrament of Baptism.

The children thought about the signs and symbols of Baptism (white garment, water, Baptismal Candle, oils) and what happens in Church when a baby is Baptised.

Science

We carried out an investigation to find out which microhabitats woodlice prefer. We went outside and investigated four microhabitats. We found out that they preferred being under leaves and under logs. We discussed why they prefer these conditions.

Forest School

We worked in our log circle area this week. We designed obstacle courses which included balancing, jumping, running and even a pinata!

We tested them for safety and then invited everyone to have a go.

There was great teamwork, co-operation, resilience and imagination shown.

We also found minibeasts, noticed the apples growing on the tree and discovered more fungi.

Golden Assembly

Star of the Week - Gigi

Super Learner -Bobby 

Superstar Writer - Harry

Bookworm - Amelia

Mathematician - Dean

Special Mentions - Arthur and Honey for super observational drawing of a leaf in art.

Jessie H. -For being a kind friend.