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

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The Curriculum Evening Presentation can be accessed here

Year Group reminders

Week Commencing: Monday 8th June 2026

Week B

Monday:

Tuesday:

Wednesday: Both classes in PE kit today please.

Thursday: Sports Day 1.30-3pm.  Please send your child in PE kit today. Please see the email for further details. Library book to be returned today if your child would like to change it. 

Friday:

Looking further ahead:

• Friday 19^th June - INSET Day – no school for the children
• 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 6 and return their booklet to school by Thursday 11^th June where we will mark it as a class.

Reading for Pleasure

Book of the Week: Colours, Colours Everywhere by Julia Donaldson.

RE

Dialogue and Encounter

This week we will be discussing the idea that ‘everyone is my neighbour’ and how this works in our lives.

English

We will use our knowledge of descriptive writing to describe a setting from a book.  We will also look at the skill of sequencing events which will help our comprehension skills.

Master Readers (Year 2)

Text: Hotel Flamingo by Alex Milway

Focus vocabulary this week: frowning; welled; exclusive; ventured; tattered; potential.

Phonics/ spellings

/ow/ spelt ‘ou’ and /oi/ spelt ‘oy’.

SPAG

Spelling

The children will be tested on irregular words that they have practised during the half term break.  Depending on the group they are in, they will learn words with suffixes of ‘ful’ and ‘less’; words with ‘ge’ in them or words ending in ‘el’.

Grammar

Adjectives.

Maths

Statistics

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

Science

Habitats

The children will be looking at the world’s driest regions.

DT

Creating an image board.

Computing

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

Geography

Beside the Seaside

No lesson this week due to the whole school Talent Show on Friday.

French

To learn and say the months of the year in French.

Music

We will rediscover the two arias we have learned.

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.