Week Commencing Monday 31st March 2025

English: This week in English we will be practising our application of phase 5 graphemes.

Maths: We will be finishing our unit on multiplication and division.

Spellings Year 1: are.

Spellings Year 2: 

Adding –ing, –ed, –er, –est and –y to words of one syllable ending in a single consonant letter after a single vowel letter

The last consonant letter of the root word is doubled to keep the /æ/, /ɛ/, /ɪ/, /ɒ/ and /ʌ/ sound (i.e. to keep the vowel ‘short’).

Exception: The letter ‘x’ is never doubled: mixing, mixed, boxer, sixes.

In History, we will be going outside to consolidate our learning on GTFOL. 

Week Commencing Monday 24th March 2025

English: This week in English we will be writing a missing poster and our very own poem!

Maths: We will be continuing to work on multiplication and division.

Spellings Year 1: air and ear.

Spellings Year 2: 

Adding the endings –ing, –ed, –er, –est and –y to words ending in –e with a consonant before it

The –e at the end of the root word is dropped before –ing, –ed, –er, –est, –y or any other suffix beginning with a vowel letter is added. Exception: being.

In DT, we will be finishing off our taxis and evaluating them! In Science, we will be hoping for a sunny day so that we can look at UV rays!

Week Commencing Monday 17th March 2025

English: This week in English we will be continuing to rewrite our story.

Maths: We will be continuing to work on multiplication and division.

Spellings Year 1: aw and au.

Spellings Year 2: 

Adding –ed, –ing, –er and –est to a root word ending in –y with a consonant before it

The y is changed to i before –ed, –er and –est are added, but not before –ing as this would result in ii. The only ordinary words with ii are skiing and taxiing.

Not copying, crying, replying

In DT, we will be painting our taxis black. In Geography we will be comparing London and Kuala Lumpur. 

Week Commencing Monday 10th. March 2025

English: This week in English we will be drafting and planning our own story.

Maths: We will be continuing to work on multiplication and division.

Spellings Year 1: or and ore

Spellings Year 2: Adding –es to nouns and verbs ending in –y

The y is changed to i before –es is added.

In DT, we will be designing our own taxis. In PSHE we will be thinking about healthy food.

Week Commencing Monday 3rd March 2025

English: This week in English we will be rewriting the story so far.

Maths: We will be continuing to work on multiplication and division.

Spellings Year 1: ie spelling -/igh/ 

Spellings Year 2: The /igh/ sound spelt –y at the end of words.
The /aɪ/ sound spelt –y at the end of words

This is by far the most common spelling for this sound at the end of words.

In DT, we will be investigating wheels, axels and chassis. In RE we will be learning about Jesus' miracle - Jesus heals the sick.

Week Commencing Monday 24th February 2025

English: This week in English we are focusing on using a range of different conjunctions. Y2 will be focusing on the present progressive.

Maths: We will be starting our unit on multiplication and division!

Spellings Year 1: ie spelling -/igh/ and /ee/ phoneme.

Spellings Year 2: The /l/ sound spelt –al at the end of words.
Words ending –il The /l/ or /əl/ sound spelt –al at the end of words.

Not many nouns end in –al, but many adjectives do. Words ending –il There are not many of these words.

In history, we begin to learn about The Great Fire of London landmark and why this is so important.