Year 2 Summer Term 2026

Dear Parents/Carers,

Welcome back to the Summer Term. We are hoping for plenty of good weather and lots of opportunities for outdoor learning! This term, our learning will be based on an exciting new topic, ‘Paws and Claws’! As a shared topic, we will be working collaboratively with Years 2 and 3. The children have had the opportunity to share their ideas about what they'd like to learn within our topic. We will begin by learning all about pets, allowing the children to share personal experiences regarding pet care and the importance of ‘The Five Freedoms’. This will progress to research on wild animals, both in our local area and across the world, including a look at the work carried out by local and international charities.  If you have any books or items of interest related to this topic, please send them in for your child to ‘show and tell’!"

Weekly literacy themes will include stories, poems, and non-fiction work. Spelling practise will focus on words with common suffixes and investigation of words which have the same sounds but different spelling. The children will continue to receive weekly differentiated spelling tests (these will commence on 23.4.26). The children will begin joining their handwriting this term if they have not already done so. The correct handwriting style and formation will be reinforced and practised throughout activities as well as specific focused sessions. Literacy across the curriculum will continue to be developed through topic related themes.

Mathematics will be taught through a range of practical activities as well as more formal recording. This will involve varied number work and activities related to measures, fractions, time, position and direction. Much of this will also be reinforced through topic related Numeracy across the curriculum. The children will continue to receive differentiated times table/division tests. Please continue to help your child learn their times tables at home.

Please ensure that your child has their book bag and ‘reading record’ in school on a Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday.  Please listen to your child read as often as possible and make a weekly comment in the reading record, these are really helpful.  Your child will continue to be able to select a book of their choice from the school library to share with you at home.

PE will be held on Thursday morning and a Friday afternoon (kit can remain in school). Please can you ensure that your child wears or has a pair of trainers in school on these days as PE sessions may be held outside if the weather is suitable. Forest school will be on a Thursday afternoon. Please ensure that your child has suitable ‘named’ clothing for these activities, including a sunhat and appropriate footwear.

Finally, if you have any queries or concerns, please do not hesitate to contact us via the school office 203728 or email penyfroprimaryschool@penyfro.swansea.sch.uk  and we will get back to you.

Kind Regards,

Mrs Rees, Mrs Davies, Miss Dunne and Ms Macfarlane (Friday’s class teacher)

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