Year 2
What have we been learning this week?
Week Commencing Monday 12th January 2026
This week:
In English, the children are preparing to write a letter about the life of a pirate. They took part in a drama lesson about pirate life and are also looking forward to Rainbow Theatre Day on Friday. They have been learning how to add the suffixes -er and -est to root words. In Maths, we are continuing our learning on place value and on solving addition and subtraction word problems using structured and unstructured number lines and dienes. In Science, we will begin our unit on Forces. The children will take part in hands-on activities to help them understand pushes, pulls and gravity. In Computing, the children have been enjoying programming Beebots, debugging their programs and recording their algorithms.
How you can help: Spellings this week to practise are: move, prove, improve, sure, sugar. Geography homework will be posted on Google Classroom, so please keep an eye out for it.
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
Useful Website Links
Maths Toolkits
Purple Mash
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