Friday 23rd May 2025
Spellings:
Next week is a review and consolidation week of all the spelling rules we have looked at this half term.
the 'or' sound spelt a before l/ll/lk: wall, talk, calling, smaller, stalk
the 'u' sound spelt o: mother, brother, oven
the 'o' sound spelt a: wash, wand, squash, want
the 'er' sound spelt or: work, worm, world,
the 'or' sound spelt ar after w: war, warm, warden, warble
the 'n' sound spelt kn/gn - knight, knock, knot, gnome, gnat, gnaw,
Adding ment/ness to the end of adjectives: kindness, sadness, forgiveness, happiness, enjoyment, fulfillment, statement, basement, pavement.
Reading:
Please read daily with your adult and log it on Boom Reader.
You can read your 'Snow White and the Jazz Band' book, your banded book or a book from home.
Maths:
Please practice Doodle Maths 45 minutes weekly - this can be in smaller chunks over a few days!
You can also practise your 2, 5 and 10x tables on Topmarks - Hit the Button Game
https://www.topmarks.co.uk/maths-games/hit-the-button
This half term has flown by!
A fantastic trip to Woburn last week was enjoyed by all - we loved seeing all of the animals, including rhinos, elephants, tigers, lions and bears on the road safari, as well as a range of land and sea creatures including meerkats, sealions, penguins, red pandas and lots of others on the foot safari! The children were so well behaved and represented our school so well - we are incredibly proud of them.
This week we have enjoyed our 'Vision and Values day' on Tuesday, where we looked at our school vision quote "in faith we act, for nothing is impossible with God". We linked this with all of the Sustainable development goals we have covered this year and made posters to show how we can be our best selves to try and make the world a better place for all.
Wednesday-Friday we have absolutely loved celebrating Buckden School's Science Week!
On Wednesday we participated in Buckden School's Big Science Quiz - the children could answer all of the questions and give reasons for their answers, all children earned house points for their teams with super engagement and lots of scientific conversation!
We also looked in depth at what Botanists do as part of their jobs - we then became botanists and studied a range of flowers in real detail, producing some beautiful botanical illustrations with scientific labels and vocabulary. We looked at the Botanist Agnes Arber, researched her job role and learned lots of facts about her, including that she was one of the first female Botanists to become a member of several scientific societies, as well as earned various medals for her work and achievements!
On Thursday we completed a carousel of activities around school, visiting year 4 to learn about paper aeroplanes and year 6 to conduct a bottle flip experiment! We had great fun and it was exciting to meet and learn with other teachers around school!
On Friday we took part in the great poetry share, where we looked in detail at a range of flowers and used adjectives to describe them, before exploring rhythm and rhyme. We used all the skills we leaned to then create some wonderful poems all about flowers. The children loved writing them up in neat and we have created a class poetry anthology of flower poems to add to our classroom library!
If you are available to walk to/from the Church on Monday 2nd June between 9am and 10:30am, please let us know via our individual/year group emails.
Have a wonderful half term - please rest and relax before we come back and get ourselves ready for the challenge of Year 3! We will be focusing on developing our listening skills further, developing stamina in our writing and really refining our handwriting!
Best wishes,
Miss Freeman and the Year 2 Team