Year 2 Blog Friday 16th January 2026

Date: 15th Jan 2026 @ 3:32pm

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 (23.01.26):

played       walked        looked       cried      tried         lied           chased             opened       pushed    pulled

Sumdog: Complete the time and spelling challenges.

Counting: Count forwards and backwards in fives to 60. This will also help you with telling the time.

You could also work on your 2, 5, 10 or 3 times tables.

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

English

We continued to learn through the story of The Barnabus Project. We worked together to produce some fact sheets showing what we know about Barnabus. We made some puppets which we used to re-tell the story. We wrote in role as Barnabus and explained how we felt about living in a bell jar in the lab. We also wrote some instructions for the jobs the Green Rubber Suits have to do during the day.

SPaG

We have been learning the rules about adding the syffixes ed and ing.

Maths

We have been learning how to tell the time, o'clock, half past, quarter to and quarter past.

Science 

We started our new topic all about materials.We discussed all the different materials objects can be made from. We also discussed what materials would not be good for certain uses.

Art

The art of Hundertwasser was our focus this week. He was an Austrian architect and artist. We looked at the buildings he designed and his art work. We investigated the shapes, lines and colours he used.

R.E.

One of our lessons this work was about the life and work of John the Baptist. Our other lesson was re-telling the story of Jesus' baptism.

Golden Assembly

STAR- Buzz

SUPER LEARNER-Arianna

BOOKWORM-Gigi

MATHEMATICIAN-Dean

SPECIAL MENTIONS-Rudy got a special mention from Mrs Mulgrew for his beautiful manners and lovely chat at lunchtime

and Honey got a special mention for being a kind friend.