B'kinghamshire

For Term 1, PE is on a Monday and a Wednesday.

Please send your child's PE kit in on Monday, it will be sent home each Friday. Please make sure your child's clothing and shoes are named. Please provide socks for PE if your child wears tights. 

Week 1 in Buckinghamshire

What a lovely first week of term! It has been so lovely to see all of the children's home learning coming in and sharing it with the class. We have started reading Look Up! Rocket, a young girl loves space and she has taught us about meteors. The children have written a diary entry and have started to create their own meteor shower posters!

In Science, we have started learning about the human body, in History we have started to talk about exceptional people in History. The children have shown enthusiasm and excitement to learn so we are looking forward to the year ahead!

Home learning

Reading

Children should be reading everyday and once a week this can be logged on

https://www.boomreader.co.uk/parents

• All children who are on RWI will bring home a RWI Reading book each Friday, please return them the following Wednesday. 
• Children in Year 2 also begin to bring home a book from the Discovery Centre which is levelled according to the Accelerated Reader (AR) scheme  https://www.southborough.kent.sch.uk/accelerated-reader-1/

      These books can be returned and swapped as soon as they are finished. There is also a quiz                    associated with these books https://www.southborough.kent.sch.uk/year-2-1/

Note: some children will bring home both a RWI Reading book and an AR levelled reading book - please read both with your child.
Both books should be left in their bags so they can read them at school, as well as at home, to enhance their fluency.

Spelling

Spelling groups will be shared in week 3 with new spelling words to start practising at home. 

Please also find linked below the list of spellings Year 2 will be practising throughout the year. Strategies to practise spellings can be found on the Oxford Owl website, here.

More information about how we teach spelling at Southborough and strategies to support your child at home can be found here: https://www.southborough.kent.sch.uk/spelling-3/

Times Tables Rockstars/Numbots

To keep practising the multiplication taught in class, and challenging yourself to keep the ones you already know fresh, don’t forget to log into your Times Tables Rockstars account

https://play.ttrockstars.com/

Challenge yourself to beat your score, build your knowledge and watch your confidence sore, as you become a Rockstar!

To use Numbots, for games to support number knowledge, confidence and fluency go to https://play.numbots.com/

Please ask your class teacher if you need replacement log in details.

Maths

In Year 2 we are currently learning about place value. Please find a maths game here to help  with understanding the concept of hundreds, tens and ones.

A typical week in Buckinghamshire 2.