Year 2 Blog Friday 3rd October 2025

Date: 3rd Oct 2025 @ 1:50pm

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 (10.10.25):

door       floor       poor        because       find      kind         mind       behind        child       children

Sumdog: Complete the 'Addition and Subtraction Facts' challenge.

Counting: At home, count in 2's, 5's and 10's forwards and backwards.

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

We listened to some more chapters from the book. We collected discussed why dark can be exciting.

We wrote a letter to Plop telling him not to be afraid of the dark and about all the exciting things he could do in the dark.

Phonics

We have been revising the long o sound, ui as in juice, ue as in glue, u-e as in cube, u-e as in rule, ew as in flew.

SPaG

We have been learning about conjunctions (joining words) and writing sentences including... and, but, because, so. The children are trying to use them as often as possible in their own writing.

Maths

The children have been adding/subtracting a multiple of 10 to/from a 2 digit number, 26+20 or 41-30. We have also worked on number bonds to 10 and 100.

RE

This week, we have read Psalm 139 together. The children learnt that a Psalm is a bit like a song or a prayer. They responded to the Psalm with their own art work in the style of Eva Crawford.

Geography

The children know the seven continents and five oceans so well now. During our lesson, we looked at the continent of Europe in more detail. 

Forest School 

We made shelters using logs, tarps and ropes. There was some tricky knot tying too.Great teamwork and resilience was shown.

Golden Assembly

Star of the Week - Huxley

Super Learner - Buzz

Superstar Writer - Lara

Bookworm - Genevieve

Mathematician - Kamali

Special Mentions - Lilly-Mae was given a special mention from Mrs Cliffe for the way she sorted her wellies out in Forest School.

Jesse F. got a special mention for his super den building in Forest School, he showed resilience and problem solving skills.

Thank you for all your generous Harvest gifts.