Year 2 Friday Blog- 9.5.25

Date: 2nd May 2025 @ 3:14pm

Dear Parents,

We have had a fantastic week celebrating the VE Day 80th Anniversary. As well as listening to the Year 5 children playing wartime songs on the playground (whilst waving our flags), we also enjoyed a delicious celebration picnic on the field. Please read the history section below and look at the VE Day gallery to find out more about our VE Day celebrations.

Our learning this week in Year 2

English

We started off our English lessons this week by matching given definitions to words collected from the text shown above. We then studied the setting shown in the opening pages of the text and thought about some of our senses. We listed what we could see, hear, smell and feel, creating noun phrases for each of the sections. The children came up with lots of super expanded noun phrases and these will be used in their writing at a later point in this topic.

Maths

The children have been extending number sequences in twos, fives and tens forwards and backwards from any number and have also been identifying numbers that appear in more than one pattern. We have also been learning how to complete addition and subtraction equations using jottings, as shown below:

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Look at the following maths fluency questions. Try using the number 50 and then use a variety of different numbers of your own choice.

RE

We watched a video of Jacob's Dream, as described in Genesis 28:10-22. Jacob, on his journey, stopped to rest and used a stone as a pillow when he received the dream. God appeared to him, promising to give him the land he was lying on and to bless his descendants. This was the focus of our class discussion and the children offered some excellent thoughts as to how Jacob might have felt at various points in his journey.

History - VE Day

As well as writing and drawing our ideas to help contribute to a peaceful future, we also made peace wreaths. We finished the day by coming together to sing I'll Remember, a song composed by Simon Haw MBE. It really is a wonderful song and the children sang it beautifully.

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.

Spellings - Please find this weeks spellings below and a link to spelling frame. Our spelling quiz will be on Thursday 15th 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

What happens when I add the suffixes -ment, -ness, -ful -less and -ly to a root word?