In Year 2, your child will learn the 2, 5, and 10 multiplication tables and will solve more complex problems. Help at home with our activities and advice.
Multiplication & division in Year 2 (age 6–7)
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Blog posts for: Year 2
Reading: Age 6–7 (Year 2)
Children age 6–7 will continue to build up a range of reading skills. Find out what you can do at home to support your child’s reading development.
Reading: Age 9–10 (Year 5)
In Year 5, your child will be encouraged to read widely. Find out how to encourage them at home as they discover different types of language and writing.
Key Stage 1 SATs
The National Curriculum tests or SATs can seem like a daunting part of your child’s education but, if you know what to expect, they don’t need to be scary for you or your child!
Addition & subtraction in Year 2 (age 6–7)
In Year 1, your child will solve problems using objects, diagrams, and symbols. Help your child learn at home with our activities, videos, and advice.
Comprehension
Find out how reading comprehension is taught throughout primary school, and take a look at our books, advice, and free activities to help at home.
The curriculum for maths in Year 2 (age 6–7)
By the end of Year 2, pupils should know the number bonds to 20 and be precise in using place value. Leanr more about the curriculum in Year 2.
Grammar and literacy glossary: A to C
A guide to grammar and literacy terms used in schools, with definitions, how-to videos, and practice activities. From adverbials to conjunctions.
Learning at home: Learning to read
Education expert James Clements runs through everything you need to keep your child’s reading skills developing during the school lockdown.
Geometry & shapes in Year 2 (age 6–7)
In Year 2, your child will learn to describe 2D and 3D shapes using accurate mathematical vocabulary. They will also learn to find 2D shapes in 3D shapes, to arrange shapes into patterns, and to talk about rotation.
Grammar and literacy glossary: J to Q
A guide to grammar and literacy terms used in schools, with definitions, how-to videos, and practice activities. From modal verbs to pure sounds.
Help with times tables
Learning times tables can be fun! Help your child learn their times tables with our free top tips, videos, quizzes and worksheets.
Learning at home: Reading to learn
Education expert James Clements talks about how children who are already confident readers can get the most out of their reading.
Fun maths games and activities
Have fun practising your maths skills with these games, activity sheets, and videos.
How to help your child with mental arithmetic
Building confidence in maths early on will pay back many times over. Get tips for developing your child’s mental arithmetic skills.
Number & place value in Year 2 (age 6–7)
In Year 2, your child will order numbers from 1 to 100, and will know the place value of two-digit numbers. Help at home with our activities and advice.
Fractions in Year 2 (age 6–7)
In Year 2, your child will continue to learn about halves and quarters. They will also begin to think about how to make and recognise thirds.
Learning at home: The tricky business of screen time
Keeping your child’s screen time manageable can be tricky, especially at the moment. Education expert James Clements gives us his top tips.
Learning at home: What can we learn from teachers?
Education expert James Clements talks about the lessons we can learn from teachers about helping your child to learn at home.
Fractions, decimals and percentages
Flummoxed by fractions? Dismayed by decimals? Perplexed by percentages? Get tips for exploring these tricky concepts at home.
How fun with phonics helps develop communication skills
One of the most valuable skills we can give our children is the ability to communicate well. Read top tips on how to develop communication skills.
Statistics in Year 2 (age 6–7)
In Year 2, your child will learn to draw simple charts and graphs. They will be able to sort categories by their quantities and will be able to compare sets of data.
Developing empathy through reading
Children’s author Anne Booth, creator of the Lucy series, discusses how reading builds up emotional literacy, empathy, and relationship skills.
What to expect in Year 2 (age 6–7)
Find out what your child will learn in Year 2, what to expect in their end of year tests, and how you can support their learning at home.
Money, money, money
Money isn’t everything, but being ‘good with money’ is undoubtedly a useful life skill. Read Fiona Lazenby’s top tips for practising using money with your child.
Learning at home: What would they be learning at school?
Education expert and writer James Clements explains what your child would be learning at school, and how we can use (or not use) the curriculum at home.
Measurement in Year 2 (age 6–7)
In Year 2, your child will learn about the measurement of length, height, weight, volume, time, and money, and they will start measuring temperature.
Book of the Month: Read with Oxford comic books
Win two Read with Oxford comics, full of fun characters and engaging storylines – from sneaking past ticklish octopuses to getting cuddly bumbles home for tea.
Working with school (in strange times)
James Clements shares his advice on how we can work together with teachers to help our children be happy and confident at school, and gives his tips on getting the most out of parents’ evening.
Time flies: helping your child learn to tell the time
Learning to tell the time using both analogue and digital clocks is still an important skill, but it’s something that children can find tricky to master. Louise Pennington shares ideas to support your child’s growing understanding of time.
Learning at home: How to prioritise sharing a book
Education expert and writer James Clements talks about the importance of reading to your child to boost their educational success in all sorts of ways.
Writing a thank you letter
Practise handwriting by writing a thank you letter to someone who has helped you during lockdown – like a teacher, a family member, or a healthcare worker.
Learning at home: Things to get ready for next week
Education expert and writer James Clements suggests 6 practical things you get get ready over the weekend for next week’s learning at home.
Times tables: Practice makes perfect
Maths teacher and education expert Louise Pennington shares her favourite activities and games to help your child learn their times tables.
Maths is everywhere!
Maths expert Louise Pennington shares her advice for developing your child’s maths skills during school closures by exploring maths in the real world.
Learning at home: Making a start
Educational expert and writer James Clements gives his 3 top tips of how to get started with teaching your child at home.
Learning at home: Buying yourself some time
Education expert James Clements shares his ideas for keeping the children busy – in a constructive way – when you need to be getting on with something.
Five ways to improve maths home-learning
Maths expert Andrew Jeffrey shares five easy-to-implement strategies that can make a positive difference to our children’s maths learning at home.
Common reading issues
Tackle common reading problems with our expert advice on supporting struggling readers, engaging reluctant readers, and encouraging boys to pick up a book.
Teaching maths at home
Mathemagician Andrew Jeffrey suggests ways you can support your child’s maths development at home without needing to be an expert.
Oxford Phonics Spelling Dictionary: Answer sheet
Answers to the Oxford Phonics Spelling Dictionary activity sheets.
Biff, Chip and Kipper: Dolphin Rescue and Other Stories
Find out what happens when the children discover a dolphin on the beach, go on a snowy adventure with Floppy and meet the Queen with Gran! This collection contains two phonics books, two stories, and fun activities – ideal for children who are growing in reading confidence.
Winnie and Wilbur: Winnie Makes Trouble
Two mischievous stories about Winnie, the world’s wackiest witch, and her cat Wilbur, getting into all sorts of trouble! A spell lands Winnie in double trouble, and Winnie tries out babysitting.
Winnie and Wilbur: Chilly Winnie
Brave the cold with Winnie, the world’s wackiest witch, and her cat Wilbur, in two wintry stories. Join Winnie as she meets the abominable snowman and does her best to find some hot chocolate!
Winnie and Wilbur: Winnie at Work
Two hilarious stories about Winnie, the world’s wackiest witch, and her cat Wilbur, taking on two special jobs at school. Winnie runs the after-school club and gets a job as the school cook.
Winnie and Wilbur: Winnie in the Sun
Have fun in the sun with Winnie, the world’s wackiest witch, and her cat Wilbur. Join Winnie as she digs for treasure, and find out what happens when Wilbur goes missing.
Winnie and Wilbur: Winnie’s Holiday Fun
Two funny stories about Winnie, the world’s wackiest witch, and her cat Wilbur, on an unexpected holiday adventure. Join Winnie on a mystery tour and a birthday fishing trip.
Winnie and Wilbur: Winnie’s Witchy Tales
Two fun-packed stories about Winnie, the world’s wackiest witch, and her cat Wilbur. Join Winnie as she stars in the pantomine and when she really brings stories to life at school!
Maths activity books for Year 2 (Age 6–7)
Our maths activity books are fully aligned to the curriculum for Year 2 (age 6–7), and have been designed to make learning fun. Topics covered include fractions, shapes and data handling.
At Home with Spelling 2 (age 5–7)
Four activity sheets to practise spelling vowel sounds, ‘ck’ and ‘k’ words, and ‘ow’ words.
Oxford First Grammar Punctuation and Spelling Dictionary: Answer sheet
Answers to the Oxford First Grammar, Punctuation and Spelling Dictionary activity sheets.
Nelson Grammar: Answers
Answers to the activity sheets from Nelson Grammar.
Nelson Grammar: Conjunctions
Year 2 | Age 6–7. Find out how conjunctions join words together.
Punctuation marks
Practise using the correct punctuation marks in sentences (full stops, question marks, and exclamation marks).
Nelson Comprehension: Finding facts
Year 2 | Age 6–7. Read and anaylse two non-fiction texts.
Phonics: Which spelling? (Super challenge)
Choose the correct letter or letter groups to complete these common words (/j/and /m/sounds).
Nelson Comprehension: Answers
Answers to the activity sheets from Nelson Comprehension.
Printable Numicon shapes
Don’t have Numicon shapes at home? Download, print, and cut out these free Numicon shapes.
Numicon: Bag of Numicon Shapes 1–10
A set of 10 Numicon shapes to practise maths at home. The tactile, multi-sensory approach helps your child build their mathematical fluency, reasoning, and problem-solving.
2, 5 and 10 times tables quiz: 25 questions
Practise your times tables knowledge with this quick quiz. Answer 25 questions about the 2, 5 and 10 times tables.
2, 5 and 10 times tables quiz: 10 questions
Practise your times tables knowledge with this quick quiz. Answer 10 questions about the 2, 5 and 10 times tables.
2, 5 and 10 times tables quiz: 15 questions
Practise your times tables knowledge with this quick quiz. Answer 15 questions about the 2, 5 and 10 times tables.
At Home with French (age 5–7)
Four activity sheets to help you learn vocabulary around numbers and going on holiday.
At Home with Phonics (age 5–7)
Read ‘Gran’s Van’ and ‘Tom the Tiger’.
Number: Number statements
Complete the number statements.
Letter by letter
Change one word into another by changing one letter at a time.
At Home with English (age 5–7)
Four activity sheets to practise vowels, making sentences, blending, and comprehension.
At Home with Maths (age 5–7)
Four activity sheets to practise counting to 10, measuring, shapes, and time.
At Home with Times Tables (age 5–7)
Four activity sheets to practise your 3, 4, 7, and 8 times tables.
Oxford First Illustrated Maths Dictionary: Answer sheet
Answers to the Oxford First Illustrated Maths Dictionary activity sheets.
At Home with Handwriting 2 (age 5–7)
Four activity sheets to practise writing with joined up letters and words.
At Home with Handwriting 1 (age 5–7)
Four activity sheets to practise writing letters.
At Home with Spelling 1 (age 5–7)
Four activity sheets to practise the alphabet, consonants, syllables, and ‘-er’ endings.
Julia Donaldson’s Songbirds: My Phonics Activity Book, Stage 3
Join the Songbirds characters in these exciting phonics activities, ideal for children who are growing in reading confidence. Help the pirates to fill their treasure chests, complete the toy box puzzle and find the right tail stickers for the animals!
Julia Donaldson’s Songbirds: My Phonics Activity Book, Stage 4
Join the Songbirds characters in these exciting phonics activities, ideal for children who are gaining more reading confidence. Play I Spy with Tara, use clues to complete the crosswords and finish the story of Jack and the Giants!
Nelson Handwriting: Joining to the top
Year 2 | Age 6–7. Trace and write a pattern, letters and words, practising joining to the top.
Nelson Handwriting: Correct height and size of letters
Year 2 | Age 6–7. Write letters and words, focusing on the correct height and size of letters.
Nelson Handwriting: Diagonal joins
Year 2 | Age 6–7. Trace and write a pattern, letters and words, practising the diagonal join.
Biff, Chip and Kipper: Stories and Activities Stage 3, Book A
This Stories and Activities book contains two Biff, Chip and Kipper stories in an appealing comic-strip format, along with fun activities that will help your child to practise sounds, letters and early reading skills at home. Go on a sandy adventure to Gran’s beach hut and find out what happens when the children go on a march to save Pudding Wood!
Biff, Chip and Kipper: Stories and Activities Stage 3, Book B
This Stories and Activities book contains two Biff, Chip and Kipper stories in an appealing comic-strip format, along with fun activities that will help your child to practise reading skills at home. Read an old-fashioned story with Chip and find out what happens when Gran takes her rare teddy bears to the toy fair!
Phonics: Matching sounds
Identify words that start with the same phonic sounds.
Oxford First Illustrated Science Dictionary: Answer sheet
Answers to the Oxford First Illustrated Science Dictionary activity sheets.
Shapes and measures
Some shapes can be flat and some solid. Look at these shapes and sort them into the correct boxes.
Phonics: What am I? (Super challenge)
Decipher the phonic clues to work out which animal is being described.
Phonics: Which spelling?
Choose the correct letter or letter groups to complete these common words (/s/and /f/sounds).
Phonics: Rhyming games (Super challenge)
Find and spell rhyming words then create your own poem.
Phonics: Rhyming games
Identify words that end with the same phonic sounds to create fun rhymes.
Phonics: Matching sounds (Super challenge)
Identify words that have the same phonic sounds in the middle.
Phonics: Grouping words by sound (Super challenge)
Sort words into the correct boxes to show where the /k/ sound appears in the word.
Phonics: long vowel sounds (Super challenge)
Identify the pictures and sort the word with long vowel sounds (/ai/, /ee/, /igh/, and /oa/ sounds).
Phonics: Long vowel sounds
Sort words to show which long vowel sound they include (/ai/, /ee/, /igh/, and /oa/ sounds).
Phonics: How many sounds? (Super challenge)
Label the pictures and identify how many phonic sounds make up these words.
Phonics: How many sounds?
Identify how many phonic sounds make up these common words.
Phonics: Grouping words by sound
Sort and group words together that have the same phonic sound (/s/, /n/, and /k/ sounds).
Phonics: Alternative spellings (Super challenge)
Practise spelling using the correct letter groups for the /ur/ phonic sound.
Phonics: Alternative spellings
Choose the correct letters to complete these common words containing the long /oo/ phonic sound.
Phonics: Word games (Super challenge)
Use the picture clues to complete this crossword and identify the long vowel phonic sound.
Phonics: Word games
Find the words that have the /ai/ phonic sound in this wordsearch.
Numicon: Homework Activities Intervention Resource
Especially created for use at home, Homework Activities Intervention Resource kit supports children’s mathematical development and learning outside of school. The kit includes dice, 60 coloured counters, 21 numeral cards, 30 shapes, a large table-top number line, and more.
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