1st December 2025

Our class has had an exciting few weeks filled with creativity and problem-solving. The children have been busy crafting their own independent pirate stories, using a picture prompt to spark their imaginations. They thought carefully about their senses—describing what their characters might hear, taste, and feel—and worked hard to include all the ideas we have explored together in literacy.

In maths, the children have been developing their shape skills, learning to draw a range of 2-D shapes, identify and create lines of symmetry, and use these lines to complete symmetrical shapes.

17th November 2025

In English, we have been looking at the text The Legend of Blackbeard’s Stone, an exciting mythical story about a pirate who protects his special stone from sea creatures. The children are now planning their own versions of the story, using interesting adjectives, different weather, times of day, and proper nouns to make their settings come alive.

In Maths, we are beginning to explore 2D and 3D shapes and learning all about their different properties. The children have enjoyed identifying, sorting and describing a variety of shapes.

3rd November 2025

Before our half term break and since returning to school Year 2 have been focusing on the consonant sounds k, s, w, q, and z in Phonics. The children have been exploring the different graphemes that represent these sounds. They have been practising reading and spelling words using these sounds and graphemes, building their confidence in recognising patterns and applying their phonics knowledge in their writing and reading.

In English, we have started a new unit all about settings. The children have been learning how to create vivid and exciting descriptions by using their senses to imagine what a place might look, sound, feel, and smell like. Over the next few weeks we will be focusing on selecting interesting adjectives, using similes with like or as, and including proper nouns. We will also be working on important punctuation skills, such as using apostrophes for contraction and possession, commas in a list, and fronted adverbials to start their sentences in engaging ways.

We have been developing our number knowledge and addition skills learning about number bonds, including bonds to 10 and 100, fact families within 20, and related facts. We have practised adding and subtracting 1s, adding by making 10, and adding three 1-digit numbers. This week we have been focusing on subtraction—learning to subtract from 10, subtract a 1-digit number from a 2-digit number, and subtracting across 10. The children have been working hard to build their confidence and fluency with these important number facts.