Weekly News! 27.3.26

What a super and sparkling week we have had in Year 2! We can’t quite believe we are heading into our final week of term. It really has flown by!

English
This week we started our new non-fiction book How Bees Make Honey, which links beautifully with our whole-term focus on non-fiction texts. The children have absolutely loved it already and have really thrown themselves into becoming bee experts! There have been lots of great discussions and fascinating facts shared in class.

We have been working on developing our note-taking skills by using bullet points to record key information. The children have done a brilliant job at picking out important facts and organising them clearly. We have also been focusing on using more expert, scientific vocabulary to make our writing sound more formal and informative.

Alongside this, we have been practising using conjunctions (such as and, because, so) to join our ideas and make our sentences flow. The children have also revisited using questions as subheadings to help structure their writing and guide the reader (just like in real non-fiction books.)

On Friday, we brought all of these skills together to plan our own non-chronological reports about bees. The children thought really carefully about how to organise their ideas and what information to include in each section. Next week, we are very excited to turn these into our own informative leaflets. We can’t wait to see the finished pieces!

 

Reading

Reading at 3: Every Friday at 3, our doors will open for you to come in and enjoy a quiet read with your child. This will be for the full 15 minutes, and we kindly ask that children are not taken home early during this time. Reading folders: Some children are bringing home two books – one of these will be a Read Write Inc (RWI) home book, which we ask them to read three times throughout the week to help build fluency. These books will be changed by an adult. The second book (with the coloured sticker) should be changed independently by your child – ideally first thing in the morning. Some children have moved onto the Accelerated Reader programme and will be able to change their books once they’ve completed the quiz online.

 

Maths
In maths this week, we have been focusing on fractions, and the children have been absolutely fantastic!

We started by refreshing our understanding of fractions of shapes, making sure we were confident in recognising equal parts and explaining what makes something a half, quarter or third. The children then moved on to finding fractions of amounts, which they approached with great determination.

We have been particularly impressed with how the children have challenged themselves with trickier fractions such as 2/3, 2/4 and 3/4. They have been using their times tables knowledge to help them and explaining their thinking really clearly. It has been lovely to see their confidence grow over the week. They should be very proud of themselves!

 

Thematic
The children have been super scientists this week during our thematic learning!

We have been learning all about the life cycles of living things. The children compared the life cycle of a mammal with that of a bird, spotting similarities and differences and using some fantastic scientific vocabulary in their discussions.

We also explored how humans grow and change over time. As part of this, the children carried out their own investigation, measuring children from Reception all the way up to Year 6. They loved getting involved in this and took their role very seriously! We then discussed what we noticed and how height changes as we grow. It was a great opportunity to work scientifically and think carefully about what our results showed.

Next week, we will be starting RE, which we are really looking forward to.

 

Home Learning
This week, we would love the children to continue practising their fraction skills with a little Easter fun!

Create your own Easter fraction problems for someone at home to solve!

Be creative and have fun!

 

Red words of the week

Half, hold, hour, improve, kind

Young Artists’ Competition 2026

DEADLINE – Wednesday 1st April 2026

 

The Rotary Club of Margate have launched their Thanet schools’ art competition. Selected entries will be displayed at Sainsbury’s Westwood Cross in their annual art exhibition.

To enter, please create a piece of A4 artwork with a wildlife theme- artwork will need to be flat so it can fit into a frame. On the reverse, please write the following information:

Child’s Name

Year Group

Medium Used

Brief description of the artwork

Permission and Consent - By submitting your child’s artwork to the competition, you give permission for the artwork to be displayed in a public exhibition. You also consent to your child’s name, age, school name, and title of the artwork being shown alongside the piece. You understand that the exhibition may be visited by members of the public and that images of the display may be used by the organisers for promotional or reporting purposes, both in print and online. No other personal details will be shared.

If you have any questions – please feel free to contact Mrs Barlow.

Thank you, we look forward to receiving your competition entries!

Mrs Barlow and Mrs Howard

 

 

We hope you have a lovely weekend and we can’t wait to see you on Monday!

 Dates to remember:

Week Beginning 30th March – Parent Teacher consultation week

Wednesday 1st April at 9.05am– Easter Bonnet Parade for Team Periwinkle, Team Ocean and Team Cornflower

Wednesday 1st April at 2.45pm – Easter Bonnet Parade for Team Teal, Team Sky and Team Sapphire

Thursday 2nd April – Chilton Fundraisers Sponsored Eggscellent Event - Non-Uniform to be worn with further details to follow next term.

Thursday 2nd April - Last day of term. School to finish at 3.15pm

 

The Year 2 Team 
Miss Maddy Kennedy – Team Sapphire – maddy.kennedy@chiltonprimary.co.uk 
Mr Josh Belsey – Team Cornflower – joshua.belsey@chiltonprimary.co.uk