Year 2 Blog Friday 12th June 2026

Date: 11th Jun 2026 @ 11:44am

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.

Spelling: Please practise these spellings for your quiz on Friday (19.06.26):

gentle little    juggle      puzzle        pebble         pickle     paddle     nozzle     saddle      bubble

Sumdog: Complete the number and spelling challenges.

Counting: Count forwards and backwards in threes but start on 2, 4, 5, 7 or 9. What patterns can you see? Are some of the numbers similar?

You could write the numbers down on some paper and look more closely at them..

You could also work on your 2, 5, 10 or 3 times tables, telling the time and doubling and halving.

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

English

This week we started our new book, Stella and the Seagull. Year 2 drew and wrote about the main events of the story in order on a flow diagram.

They noted down interesting vocabulary from the book and wrote a fantastic diary entry about Stella's day.

Maths

This week we have learnt about number sequences and we will be working on some tricky addition and subtraction calculations using empty number lines to help.

RE

The children found out about St Catherine of Siena.

They produced some excellent fact files about her life.

Geography

Our new topic is Zambia.

We learnt a lot about this African country, including it's population, the language spoken, the weather, food, animals and the flag design.

The children produced interesting fact files/posters.

P.E

 The children have been playing mini games of rounders. We have got some great throwers, catchers and batters in Year 2.

Science

We went into our garden and observed the different plants. We found pea pods, strawberries and tomatoes. We saw bees on the wildflowers. The seeds which we harvested from seed heads have now grown into plants which will flower soon.

Art

We started some new learnng about how art and music can be linked. We learnt about an artist called Kandisky.

Forest School

A super session in the log circle area. We had children investigating plant structures, "we are scientists ". Other children made dens, obstacle courses and did some fabulous cooking. The digging tools were out again and some real treasures were found.

Golden Assembly

Star of the Week- William

Super Learner- Harry

Superstar Writer- Huxley

Bookworm- Rudy and Jaxon

Mathematician- Rudy

Special Mentions-Lara for counting in German and Joshua Irving and Buzz for their work about God's Wonderful World.