Year 2
What have we been learning this week?
Week Commencing Monday 8th December 2025
The children will bring their spelling sheet home.
If they bring the Year 2 Common Exception Words sheet, they are tested on only the first two columns. The spellings highlighted in pink are the words they already know. Please practise the words in the first two columns that are not highlighted.
If they bring the Year 1 Common Exception Words sheet, the entire sheet is tested. Words highlighted in pink are the ones they know; please practise the ones that are not highlighted.
This week:
In English, the children wrote an exciting story to engage the reader using adverbial phrases, conjunctions, adverbs and ambitious vocabulary. In maths, the children solved problems involving division (grouping and sharing) using an appropriate strategy. In RE, we discussed that advent for Christians is a special time of preparation and waiting for Christmas on the four Sundays leading up to Christmas Day. We then made our own advent wreath. In computing, we learnt how to change the size, colour and font of a piece of text in word processing.
Next week: We will continue working on the division. We will read the story “There is no dragon in this story” to complete reading comprehension tasks.
How you can help: Please continue to read with them. Spellings to practise fast, last, past, class, grass, pass.
Year 2 - Autumn Term Curriculum Map 2025
Our Topic this term is 'Sizzle, Crackle, Bang'. Below are some of the things the children will be learning this term.
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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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