Whiteley Year 2 2025 - 26

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...

Happy Friday! What a lovely week we have had. Everyone looked amazing dressed up as kings and queens yesterday. Just a heads up that on the first Tuesday back from half term (24th February) we will be celebrating Lunar New Year. We invite children to come dressed in red, or as it is the year of the horse, they can wear something with a horse on.  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 Here are the common exception words we would like you to practise this week... city fancy cycle circle face Remember the rule we learnt about the letter c... If the vowel after the C is  A, O, or U , the C has a  hard ...