Whiteley Year 2 2025 - 26

It has been a great week back after the Easter break. We have enjoyed hearing the children talk about their time off and have used some of this in our recount writing.  We are excited about our trip to Fort Nelson next Thursday! Thank you to all of the parents who kindly volunteered to help.  WE NEED YOUR HELP! We are in desperate need of cardboard toilet roll inserts! Please can you send in any empty toilet rolls as we have an exciting modelling session coming up and we need 90 cardboard rolls for this! Empty kitchen rolls are also very welcome, thank you. Here are this week's activities: Reading Please continue to read every day. This might be your reading book from school or a book from home. Don't forget, you can also log on to bug club phonics.  https://www.activelearnprimary.co.uk/login?c=0 Spellings This week we have been spelling words where the letter a makes an 'o' sound. Here are the words for you to practise this week... want, watch, wander, squash, quantity...

  We hope you have a restful and enjoyable Easter holiday! Please take some time over the next couple of weeks to do some reading and if you'd like to recap some of the spellings and maths strategies from this term, see the information below...  Reading As always, please read every day. This might be your reading book from school or a book from home. Don't forget, you can also log on to bug club phonics.  https://www.activelearnprimary.co.uk/login?c=0 Spelling Look back at the spellings we've learned this term (see previous blog posts) and practise them using a strategy of your choice! Maths If you want to practise the methods that we use for addition, subtraction, multiplication and division, here are the videos that you can watch... You might like to play one of these games once you've practised these methods... https://www.topmarks.co.uk/number-facts/number-fact-families https://www.visnos.com/demos/addition-subtraction-facts https://mathsframe.co.uk/en/resources/res...

This term has flown by so quickly! Thank you for your support with all the activities and learning we have been doing. It was good to see so many of you at the meetings this week so we could show you how far your children have come! Next Thursday (26th March) is our trip to the Art Gallery. There will be a parent mail reminder next week with all the details that you need to know. Please remember that if you need to contact us about anything, you can use our email address year2@whiteleyapps.com  Here are your home learning activities for this week... Reading As always, please read every day. This might be your reading book from school or a book from home. Don't forget, you can also log on to bug club phonics. The link is here... https://www.activelearnprimary.co.uk/login?c=0 Spelling Here are the words we would like you to practise this week... write wrong wrap wreck wrist Why not have some fun with your spellings this week and try writing them forwards and backwards? It will help y...

Hello everyone! Please don't forget that there are parent's meetings after school next week so that we can discuss your child's progress. If you have not signed up for an appointment yet, then please contact the school office to get booked in! Here are your home learning activities for this week... Reading Please continue to read every day. This might be your reading book from school or a book from home. Don't forget, you can also log on to bug club phonics.  https://www.activelearnprimary.co.uk/login?c=0 Spelling In phonics this week we have been looking at what happens when you add the 'er' and 'est' suffixes to adjectives.  Can you spot which rules are being followed in your spelling words this week? nice, nicer, nicest brave, braver, bravest late, later, latest ripe, riper, ripest Maths This week we have been solving multiplication and division calculations. If you want to see the methods that we use for multiplication and division, there are some vi...

  We loved celebrating World Book Day yesterday and visiting Waterstones today! If you'd like some extra book activities to do this week, then check this website for things you can do... https://www.worldbookday.com/families/ As always, please email us if you need anything! year2@whiteleyapps.com Reading Please continue to read every day. This might be your reading book from school or a book from home. Don't forget, you can also log on to bug club phonics.  https://www.activelearnprimary.co.uk/login?c=0 Spelling Our spellings this week are contractions with an apostrophe that replace a letter... can’t didn’t hasn’t it’s couldn’t I’ll they’re You might like to watch this video and try the task! https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/topics/zvwwxnb/articles/zcyv4qt Maths This week, we have continued to look at fractions. Can you work out the fraction of these shapes that are coloured? Then maybe you could draw your own shapes to test your family? This week's task Wednesday (4th March...

Welcome back! We hope you had a good half term break!   We have had another busy week in Year 2 and enjoyed our Lunar New Year celebrations on Tuesday.  Next week will also be busy with World Book day on Thursday 5th and our visit to Waterstones on Friday 6th. We are looking forward to seeing the children's costumes on Thursday! Please remember that if you need to contact us about anything this week, you can use our email address year2@whiteleyapps.com  Here are your home learning activities for this week... Reading As always, please read every day. This might be your reading book from school or a book from home. Don't forget, you can also log on to bug club phonics.  https://www.activelearnprimary.co.uk/login?c=0 Spelling This week we have been spelling words where the letter y makes an 'igh' sound. Here are the words for you to practise this week... cry, fly, dry, why, by, July Don't forget that there are lots of ways to practise your spellings in a practical way ...

Happy half term break! During half term many people will be celebrating the start of the Lunar New Year. This begins on Tuesday 17th February. There are lots of events in our local area that you might like to attend so that your family can also celebrate. Please see the weblinks below to find out more... https://www.hampshirechinese.com/chinese-new-year/ https://www.kingsportsmouth.co.uk/whatson-event/chinese-new-year-2026/ https://www.westquay.co.uk/see-and-do/chinese-new-year We look forward to seeing all the children dressed in red clothes for our own Lunar New Year celebration on the first Tuesday back.  There won't be any official home learning set for you in the holiday. If you would like something to do, our spellings this week have been... knot know knee gnat gnaw Alternatively, please look back over the last few weeks and revisit some of the spellings and maths games that we've put on the blog before. We'd love it if you kept reading every day too! Reading As alway...