Year 2

Learning Link: Beside the Seaside

This term we will be learning about the seaside and how holidays have changed over the years. We will look at changes in transportation and the impact this has had on the places we can visit including comparing Guildford and Brighton. We will be focusing on Victorian seaside holidays in history and we will be celebrating our learning at our S=P+A+C+E day where we hope to have donkey rides and a Punch and Judy show!  

St. Dorothy:

Mrs Della Maestra

St. David:

Miss Davis

Curriculum Newsletters for Autumn, Spring and Summer can be accessed here as they become available

The Curriculum Evening Presentation can be accessed here

Year Group reminders

Week Commencing: Monday 15th June 2026

Week A

Monday: Sports Day (this is a change due to the wet weather last week).  1.30-3pm.  Please send your child in PE kit today.

Tuesday:

Wednesday: Both classes in PE kit today please.

Thursday: Library book to be returned today if your child would like to change it. 

Friday: INSET Day – no school for the children.

Looking further ahead:

• Tuesday 23^rd June - Trip to Brighton
• Wednesday 1^st July - Transition Day and Whole School Open Afternoon
• Tuesday 7^th July - Beside the seaside S=P+A+C+E Day
• Friday 10^th July - End of year reports home
• Wednesday 15^th July - Family Picnic after school
• Friday 17^th July - End of term – 2pm

Reminders:

If you could send your child in with a glue stick we would be very grateful as we are running low.  Thank you!

Please ensure all items are clearly named so they find their way back to the children (water bottles, snack pots, coats, jumpers, cardigans etc.)

Please return Little Wandle reading book (if applicable), reading book, reading record book and orange spelling book in plastic folder every Monday. Reading book and reading record book to be in your child’s school bag everyday please. Thank you.

Homework

Spellings:

Spelling test on Monday - all orange spelling books in school today.  Please follow the instructions on the inside cover and ensure the grid is completed and sentences are written ready for their weekly spelling test on the following Monday.

Maths:

Please ensure they complete Summer Term Workout 7 and return their booklet to school by Thursday 18^th June where we will mark it as a class.

Reading for Pleasure

Book of the Week: God Made Me in His Image by Justin S. Holcomb and Lindsey A. Holcomb.

RE

Dialogue and Encounter

This week we will start to understand what it means to be a neighbour to all and then we will describe ways that Christians help each other.

English

The children will be given an interesting image to look at.  They will use adjectives to describe it and imagine they are in the picture.  They will plan a story about the picture and then write it independently using all the tools they have learnt throughout the year.

Master Readers (Year 2)

Text: Hotel Flamingo by Alex Milway

Focus vocabulary this week: propped; amid; stooping; whimper; retiring.

Phonics/ spellings

We will be reviewing: ‘sc’ ‘st’ ‘wr’ ‘wh’.

SPAG

Spelling

Depending on the group they are in, the children will learn words with the suffix ‘tion’; words with the soft ‘g’ sound or words ending in ‘al’.

Grammar

Adjectives, adverbs, conjunctions, punctuation (. , ! ?).

Maths

Statistics

The children will be continuing to interpret pictograms using a variety of different keys.

Science

No lesson due to Sports Day.

DT

. No lesson due to INSET Day.

Computing

We will be counting and comparing using simple data and models.

Geography

Beside the Seaside

No lesson this week due to INSET Day.

French

To learn the words for 2 more family members.

Music

This week, we will bring our learning together by acting and singing dramatically to create a performance of The Magic Flute music we know.

PE

Athletics

Children will run at different speeds and start to combine this with jumping. They will also be Jumping for distance and height in isolation and throwing for distance with accuracy and velocity. Children will start to remember, repeat and link combinations of actions.

Striking and Fielding

Children will develop overarm and underarm throwing to progress to Rounders and cricket in KS2. Track and collect a rolling ball, catching to get someone out, use hitting effectively and understand the rules of the game to play fairly.

Team building

KS1 OAA equivalent and begins with teamwork, building trust with good communication, strategy and planning, problem solving and basic map awareness.

Learning for Life

To know that God loves us.