Year 2 Friday Blog- 6.6.25

Date: 4th Jun 2025 @ 8:06am

Dear Parents,

 

Welcome back to school! We hope you all had a lovely half-term holiday. The children have come back full of positivity and have been working with great enthusiasm all week.

United Utilities

The children were all very excited to receive a free toilet roll from United Utilities this week. A big thank you to Explosive Erica, from the Mad Science team, for a super presentation on the importance of what and what not to put down the toilet or sink. 

Clitheroe Castle Trip

We are all looking forward to our visit to Clitheroe Castle Museum on Monday 9th June. We will be travelling by coach, leaving school straight after registration. We aim to leave Clitheroe Castle Museum at 2.30pm and return to school before 3.30pm.The children will need to bring a packed lunch for the trip. If your child has a school dinner, a packed lunch will be provided. The staff at Clitheroe Castle Museum have kindly requested that we take all of our rubbish back to school (due to their recycling policy). Please send any packed lunches into school in a disposable bag with your child’s first name written clearly on it.

Children will be required to wear a school uniform jumper/cardigan and school polo top. Joggers/leggings can be worn with sensible footwear (trainers etc.).Children will also need to bring a waterproof jacket as some of the activities will be held outside. No pocket money will be needed.

Challenge

Try the challenge below. Use part-part-whole methods, jottings (using tens and ones), number lines and number facts to help you solve the problems.

 Our learning this week in Year 2

We have been choosing and using appropriate standard units to estimate and measure temperature (°C) to the nearest appropriate unit, using thermometers.The children were all very excited to read the temperature on the thermometer in the playground.

We have also been learning about fractions, recognising and naming one third as any one of three equal parts of a shape or object. 

We started our new topic of Ascension and Pentecost by thinking about and discussing the feelings associated with saying goodbye to people. The children gave some super answers as to how goodbye can be communicated in many ways. Having studied the story of the Ascension, we discussed the fact that Jesus was in fact saying goodbye to his close friends.

In our Design Technology lesson this week (and the week leading up to half term), we  used our prior knowledge of fixing techniques to make animal puppets.   Please see the gallery to see some more photographs of the animal puppets being made.

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.

Spellings - Please find this weeks spellings below and a link to spelling frame. Our spelling quiz will be on Thursday 12th June.

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 Why do some longer words have the spelling ‘ti’ for /sh/?

Prickly words- eye, shoe Times tables - On Thursday 12th June, the children will be tested on the division facts related to the five times tables.

 

The Year 2 team