Year 2 Blog - 5.6.26
Date: 2nd Jun 2026 @ 5:21pm
Please see our gallery page to look at some photographs taken during our science lesson this week.
Challenge
Try to spot nouns, verbs, adjectives and adverbs when reading books at home.
This week in English, the children have been focusing on reading and have worked through assessment booklets. They have approached these tasks with a positive attitude, demonstrating perseverance, concentration and a willingness to challenge themselves. Throughout the week, they have applied their reading comprehension skills, carefully considering extracts from texts and responding thoughtfully to a variety of questions.
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In RE, we started our new topic by thinking about the big question: What Do Christians Believe Happened at Ascension and Pentecost?
To begin our learning, we discussed saying goodbye and the different feelings people can have when they part from family and friends. We shared our own experiences of saying goodbye on different occasions and talked about emotions such as happiness, sadness, excitement and worry. We discovered that goodbye can be communicated in many different ways, not just by saying the word itself.
We then learned about the Ascension of Jesus. In the story, Jesus returned to his Father in heaven. Although the Bible does not record Jesus actually saying the word "goodbye", we discussed how he was saying goodbye to his close friends as he left them. We thought about how the disciples might have felt and how this event helps Christians understand the meaning of the Ascension.
Please note that reading books will now be changed on a Wednesday. Two books are given to each child to read for the week. Please write a note in your child's reading record book when a book has been completed and sign the relevant parent signature box. This allows for an easy change as we know if the book has been read.
Please ask your child not to bring their own reading books in from home. They are given the opprtunity to select a reading book from our class bookcase. Thank you for your support.
Regular reading at home really helps to build comprehension skills, including inference (reading between the lines), as well as improving fluency and confidence. Please try to read with your child every night.
The children will have the opportunity to change their library books each Tuesday. Please spend time sharing these stories at home and asking about their choices.
Weekly Spellings
A new spelling and times tables overview for Summer Term 2 has been uploaded to the class page.
Spellings for the quiz on 11.6.26
action
fiction
station
attention
collection
invention
description
emotion
eye
shoe
Please click on the image below to access Spellingframe:
Individual log in details can be found on the inside cover of reading record books.
Please continue to practise the common exception words at home to help prepare for Year 3. Regular practice will help the children to become more confident with their spelling and ready for the next stage of their learning.Please see the common exception word list below:
Division facts quiz on 11.6.26
Division facts related to the 5 times tables.
Please click on the link below:
www.topmarks.co.uk/maths-games/hit-the-button
Please click on the image below:
End of Day Routine
- Children will only be allowed to go home with adults listed on the safeguarding form, unless school has been contacted to state otherwise.
- Children will be dismissed one at a time. Please let the adult on the door know who you are picking up and they will then call the child.
- We kindly request that all children are dismissed prior to teachers/ Teaching Assistants being approached by parents.
- Should any child need to come back into the classroom, we will allow them back into the room after all of the children have been dismissed.
Have a lovely weekend
The Year 2 team