Year 2
What have we been learning this week?
Week Commencing Monday 9th February 2026
This week:
This week the children have been writing their stories based on the book Billy and Pirates. Their characters have followed an old map to find treasure with adventures on the way! They will be editing them, improving them and reading them to their reading buddies. We have been revising shape names and revising the properties of shapes in Maths as well as using balance scales to weigh objects accurately. To revisit previously learnt sketching skills, the children have been drawing their portraits.
How you can help: Just a reminder that the children will be going to Seacity Museum on the 24th of February and will leave school promptly on that day. Please continue to read with your children at home and practise spellings: Mr, Mrs, Parents, Christmas
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
Don't forget to use Purple Mash to enhance your child's learning.