Year 2 Friday Blog- 2.5.25

Date: 27th Apr 2025 @ 6:19pm

Dear parents,

We have had a busy week learning lots of new skills and knowledge. As well as following our curriculum timetable,we have also had great fun learning a new song for the VE Day Anniversary (that will be celebrated in school on 8th May). As outlined on the newsletter, all children are invited to wear something red, white or blue to school on that day.

Our learning this week in Year 2

English

In our English lessons, we have been developing and demonstrating our understanding of characters and events through role play and drama, drawing on language from the text. The children were also given the opportunity to ask and answer who, what, where, when, why, how questions, using microphones to interview their partner (Lila). Everyone also worked hard to make inferences about characters and events using evidence from the text e.g. what is the character thinking, saying and feeling?

Have a look at our gallery to see more photographs of our English lesson this week.

Maths

We have been working on activities linked to the topic Number and Place Value. Our lessons focused on the following areas:

Partitioning a 2 digit number
Using greater and less than
Ordering Amounts
Correctly placing a number on a number line

RE

We talked about holy places of worship in our RE lesson and discussed why the church is a special/holy place for Christians. The children were asked to draw all the people they know who go to church and make the drawings into a collage of a church-shaped building.

Design and Technology

We have been studying a variety of joining techniques in our Design and Technology lessons. Following an investigation into which of the methods is the most effective for joining two pieces of felt, we will then go on to design and make our own animal puppets.

Homework

Reading - Please read every night. Answer a selection of questions about the thoughts, feelings and actions of any of the characters in your reading book.

Try the comprehension shown below:

Spellings - Please find this weeks spellings below and a link to spelling frame. Our spelling quiz will be on Thursday 8th May.

Choose five or more spellings and write a sentence for each of the words. Remember to think it, say, write it and then check for full stops and capital letters.

Words to learn this week

How can I spell the sound /zh/?