Year 2
What have we been learning this week?
Week Commencing Monday 1st June 2026
This week:
In English, the children have begun a poetry unit. They listened to a woodland soundscape to inspire their thinking about the minibeasts that might live there and then created drawings based on the images and ideas the sounds evoked. They described their pictures using expanded noun phrases and have also been writing riddles about minibeasts, using a range of sentence openers and carefully chosen vocabulary to create engaging and descriptive clues. In Maths, the children have been revising their number bonds to 20 and using their understanding of inverse operations to solve and check calculations. In RE, the children have been exploring the concept of Creation and expressing their understanding by creating their own models using playdough. In Art, the children have been developing their sketching skills through detailed drawings of minibeasts.
How you can help: Spellings for this week: – enjoyment, payment, movement, agreement, excitement, treatment.
Year 2 – Spring Term Curriculum Map 2026
Our Topic this term is 'Adventures Far and Wide'. Below are some of the things the children will be learning this term.
Key information
Key words
In Year 2 it is expected that children will read key words on sight, or be able to fluently apply their phonics to read them. Throughout the year children will also be learning to spell these words. Some of these words are 'tricky words' that cannot be sounded out (e.g. said) and some of these words require the children to apply their phonics knowledge (e.g. sound them out). See below the words the children will be covering in Year 2, through their phonics lessons, spelling time and the English curriculum.
Reading
Your child will bring home a scheme book appropriate for their reading level in their book bag each day. Once the book has been read either at home or school, and this has been recorded in the red or yellow reading log, your child will be able to change their book to get the next one in that particular scheme. Thank you for your continued support in reading regularly with your child at home.
Letter formation
Your child will continue to practise the letter formation that they learnt in Year R and 1. In Year 2, the children will then start to develop a neat joined handwriting style.
Year 2 Common Exception Words
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Maths Toolkits
Purple Mash
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