Year 2 Blog Friday 8th May 2026

Date: 5th May 2026 @ 10:13am

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 (15.05.26):

centre    cellar        celebrate         notice        peace      slice        force    once        certain     cease

Sumdog: Complete the shape and spelling challenges.

Counting: Count forwards and backwards in fives. See how far you can go! Notice the link with telling the time.

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

We learnt through the book, "The Ugly Five". It's a rhyming story about animals in Africa.

We used it as inspration to write about our own ugly beast.

First, we drew our ugly beast then we carefully described it using interesting words from the book. 

Maths

We continued to learn about time this week and worked on word problems.

For example, Ali put her cake in the oven at half past 5. It took an hour to cook, so what time did she take it out of the oven?

R.E.

Our Bible story this week was The Conversion of Saul.

The children heard the story and sequenced pictures and sentences.

History

This week we used picture evidence to help us find out more about Kings and Queens from the past and where they lived.

P.E.

We have been preparing for Sports Day (18.05.26).

It's been great fun using the track and improving our athletics skills.

Forest School

This week is Hedgehog Awareness Week. We looked at a book which gave us some facts about hedgehogs and also some ideas about how we can look after them, making hedgehog holes and thinking carefully about using slug pellets.

We cut out a hedgehog shape from cardboard and attached elastic bands. We then used sticks threaded through the bands tomake the spikes.

Some of us made hedgehog homes and some of us did some bug hunting.

Golden Assembly

Star of the Week- Huxley

Super Learner- Amelia

Superstar Writer- Cerys

Bookworm- Faisal

Mathematician- Kamali

Special Mentions- Joshua Irving and Jesse Farrow for persevering with their stick face masks in art and

Ella and Gigi for being kind and thoughtful friends.