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31st January 2025

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We have had another busy week in Year 2 and enjoyed or celebrations on Chinese New Year Day. 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 The words we have learnt this week all have a 'j' sound in them but the sound is not made by the letter J! See if you can remember our new spelling patterns and write some sentences with these words in... village huge age badge edge bridge Maths This week we have been learning all about shapes. Watch this video to remind yourself about the properties of 2d shapes... 2D shape There is also a shape pattern game you can try here... Shape pattern game You might like to make your own picture b...

24th January 2025

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We have had another busy week in Year 2! 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 The words we have learnt this week all have a 'j' sound in them but the sound is not made by the letter J! See if you can remember our new spelling patterns and write some sentences with these words in... could would should Here is the little rhyme that helps us remember their tricky spelling... Can you write some sentences with each of these spellings? You could write some questions starting with each word too. Maths We have been using addition and  subtraction to solve problems this week in maths.  Have a look at the links below a...

17th January 2025

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The children have been working really hard this week and we have been very impressed with their 'new year' attitude! As you probably know by now, we have started to learn about Chinese New Year, which will be resulting in a celebration on Wednesday 29th January. On this day children may wear red clothes to school instead of their uniform. If you would like to immerse them in their learning even further, then there are lots of local, public celebrations you can take part in. There is a website here where you can find the information about what is happening in Southampton... celebrations in Southampton As always, please email us if you have any questions! (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 In phonics this week we have been looking at some more homophones (words that sou...

Home learning 10th Jan 2025

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  Welcome back and Happy New Year! We hope you had a restful break and managed to stay healthy! It has been lovely hearing all the children's news this week and seeing them get stuck in with our geography learning. As always, please email us if you need anything!  year2@whiteleyapps.com Here are you home learning tasks 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 recapping some of the common exception words that children have found tricky. We have chosen some of the words that children are still misspelling for you to practise at home. any many again p eople Try to put each word in a sentence and write it neatly as this will help you to remember the spelling. You might also like to try... •    R ainbow   writing. Using coloured pencils in d...