Whiteley Year 2 2025 - 26

Happy Friday! We hope you all had a lovely bank holiday weekend. Here are your tasks for this week... 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 nouns that have possessive apostrophes to show that something belongs to them... boy's girl's man's woman's child's Try writing sentences with these words this week. The boy's shoes were too small for him. The woman's hat fell off her head. Or maybe you could try this game... https://www.spellingplay.co.uk/planning-and-resources/year-2/apostrophes/possessive-apostrophe Maybe you could try writing them backwards and forwards? Maths This week we have been solving a range of different problems involving the things we have learnt this term. ...

Happy Friday! We have had another wonderful week. Thank you for all of the toilet roll inserts! They have now been transformed into amazing Florence Nightingales. 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 words that are plurals (more than one of something.) We have looked at words that end in y and how they change to plurals. fly, flies carry, carries,  baby, babies lady, ladies This week you could have a go at the activities on BBC bite size linked to plurals. Click this link to access the activities;  https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/articles/z3dw4xs   Maths This week we have been learning about fractions. We have found out that they are equal parts of a whole. Watch this video to remin...

  Happy Friday!  Thank you to the helpers who joined us on the trip yesterday. The children all seemed to enjoy themselves, hopefully they have told you all about it! As always, please email us if you need anything!  year2@whiteleyapps.com Here is your home learning 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 looking at words where the 's' makes a 'zh' sound, and we have revised some homophones that we learnt last term.  These are the spelling words to practise... treasure, usual  new, knew  there, their, they’re Maths This week we have begun recapping our learning about fractions. Remember each fraction is an equal part of a whole! You can watch this video to remind you... https://www.bbc.co.uk/teach/supermovers/articles/zmjy2sg Then have ...

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...