Year 2
What have we been learning this week?
Week Commencing Monday 26th January 2026
This week:
In English, the children have been writing up their letters ready to take home! Continuing our pirate topic, we have been describing pirate pictures using expanded noun phrases and exclamation sentences. In Maths, we have been consolidating subtraction using dienes and number lines and beginning to use our knowledge of bridging through ten. In DT we made and tasted our own couscous salads, evaluating what we could improve if we were to make them again. In Computing we have enjoyed working in groups to programme the beebots to reach different destinations on the alphabet mats.
How you can help: Spellings this week to practise are: any, many, clothes, busy, people. Please also test your child on their fast recall of all number pairs within 10 e.g. 4+3, 2+6, 8+1, 7+3. This secure mental maths knowledge will support them when problem solving in maths lessons.
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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