Year 2 Friday Blog- 10.10.25

Date: 5th Oct 2025 @ 5:18pm

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Dear Parents,

Thank you for supporting the Wear It Blue campaign.

As part of our homework this week, we thought it would be beneficial for the children to focus on who they can turn to for help if they need support.

Talk to someone you can trust, such as your parents or carers, a grandparent, a teacher, a teaching assistant, or another known and trusted adult.

Please see the Colour Your Feelings activity in the files to download section. Choose one of the sheets and once completed, perhaps you would like to chat to a trusted adult about your activity.

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Challenge

The challenge will return next week. Please use your free time to focus on the Colour Your Feelings activity (as outlined above).

Safety in PE

We would like to remind all parents that for the safety of all children and following guidance from Chorley SSP, jewellery is not to be worn during PE. This includes earrings, bracelets and watches. All children will be asked to remove their jewellery at the start of every PE lesson. This will ensure their own safety during the lesson and the safety of others. If a child is unable to take out their own earrings, adults in school will not be able to do it for them. This will mean they will have to take another role in the lesson such as observing, coaching or officiating.

For this reason, if your child is not confident taking out earrings, please do not put them in on our PE days. This year, our PE lessons are on Tuesdays and Thursdays, however we may also have extra lessons on other days throughout the year.

Please note that the children will have a PE session with Chorley SSP on Monday 13th October.

Thank you for your support in keeping our children safe.

In our literacy work, the children have been engaging deeply with The Tale of Peter Rabbit. They took on the role of Mr. McGregor, responding to a set of comprehension questions from his perspective, which helped develop their understanding of character viewpoints and inference skills.

We also explored the use of adjectives in the story. Working in pairs, the children sorted a variety of descriptive words into categories related to Peter Rabbit—including personality traits, physical appearance, family and friends, and details about other characters or events. This activity supported their vocabulary development and their ability to describe and analyse characters more effectively.

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In maths, we have been continuing to learn how to use our number bonds to 10 to help us work out number bonds to 20. For example, if we know that 8 + 2 = 10, then we can use that to help us solve 18 + 2 = 20.

We have also been practising spotting missing numbers in number bond problems and using what we already know to help us solve them. The children have been using base 10 equipment and their growing mental maths skills to build confidence and accuracy.

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We have been looking at different children’s Bible covers and thinking about what makes them eye-catching and interesting. We explored how colours, pictures and words are used to help show what the Bible is all about and to appeal to young readers.Then we had a go at designing our own covers! The children created their own front covers for a children’s Bible, using everything they had learned. They also wrote blurbs for the back – short, catchy summaries to explain what the Bible is and why someone might want to read it.

Please see the gallery section for more photographs of us designing our own Bible covers.

HOMEWORK

Reading

Please try to read with your child every night. Regular reading at home really helps to build their comprehension skills, including inference (reading between the lines), as well as improving their fluency and confidence.

Even just 10 minutes a day can make a big difference!

Weekly Spellings

Please see below our weekly spelling list for our quiz on Thursday 16th October. An overview for the half term and spelling strategies can be found in the files to download section.

after

again

any

bath

beautiful

because

behind

both

break

busy

Please click on the image below to access Spellingframe.