Year 2 Super Fun Maths and English Activities for the Holidays

The activities are designed to help with summer learning loss and cover key areas of the curriculum so your students can stay brushed up on their skills ready for the new academic year.

You can use these activities over the holidays with Home Access, which allows students to access EducationCity outside of school hours – a perfect time saver, as Activities and Tests will be automatically marked for you!

Why not set these activities in a MyCity? Allocate content to different students and track their progress over the holidays – achieving targeted learning couldn’t be easier!

Today we’re going to start off with Year 2 and continue tomorrow with Year 3 and then move on to Year 4. We hope you enjoy!

Maths

Odd and Even Numbers

Crazy Golf – Understand and use in a practical context odd and even numbers.

  • England: Year 2
  • Scotland: Early ***
  • Wales: Year 1
  • N. Ireland: P3

Multiplication

Bumper Cars – Partition a number into a multiple of tens and ones. 

  • England: Year 2
  • Scotland: First **
  • Wales: Year 1 & 3

Fluffy Clouds – Respond rapidly to written questions phrased in a variety of ways. Subtraction.

 
  • England: Year 2Maths Activity
  • Scotland: First **
  • Wales: Year 2
  • N. Ireland: P5

Shapes

Snip Shape – Recognise when shapes are partitioned into halves, thirds and quarters.

  • England: Year 2
  • Scotland: First *
  • Wales: Year 2
  • N. Ireland: P3

Money

Show Me the Money – Combine different coins to make the same amounts of money.

  • England: Year 2
  • Scotland: Early ***
  • Wales: Year 2
  • N. Ireland: P3

Data

Pets Corner – Use diagrams to sort data and objects using one criterion.

  • England: Year 2
  • Scotland: First *
  • Wales: Reception & Year 2
  • N. Ireland: P2

English

Comprehension

Sandy Stories – Identify the beginning, middle and end of a story and consider the purpose of each part.

  • England: Year 2
  • Scotland: First *
  • Wales: Year 2
  • N. Ireland: P3

Making Connections – Identify the connections between pieces of information within two non-fiction texts.

  • England: Year 2
  • Scotland: First *
  • Wales: Year 2
  • N. Ireland: P3

Spelling

Stig’s Spelling Wall – Learn to spell a selection of common exception words by selecting the correct spellings and dragging letters to form words.

  • England: Year 2
  • Scotland: Early *** and First *
  • N. Ireland: P3

Apples and Pears – Choose appropriate suffixes and root words, where no changes to the root words are needed. Suffixes covered: -ment, -ful, -less, -ness, –ly

  • England: Year 2
  • Scotland: First *
  • Wales: Year 3
  • N. Ireland: P3

Vocabulary, grammar and punctuation

Water Raider – Identify which words are verbs from the list provided.

  • England: Year 2
  • Scotland: First ***
  • Wales: Year 3 & 4
  • N. Ireland: P5

Force Field – Match words to their contracted form.

  • England: Year 2
  • Scotland: First *
  • Wales: Year 2 & 4
  • N. Ireland: P3

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Pop back tomorrow to explore our Year 3 Maths and English Activity suggestions! Don’t forget to share your favourites with us @EducationCity – we’d love to hear them!

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