Southborough Church of England Primary School
Southborough Church of England Primary School
This week, we have been fully immersed in Science Week, focusing our attention on the intriguing concept of time. The highlight of our activities was the creation of our very own sand timers. Through following a set of instructions carefully, the children successfully crafted their sand timers. To ensure accuracy, we tested each timer against a stopwatch, ensuring they contained the precise amount of sand.
In our English lessons, we explored the power of emotive writing. The children took on the role of Starbird, composing a heartfelt letter to the Princess, updating her on our adventures since she released us. To enrich their writing, the students included expanded noun phrases, similes, and conjunctions, making their letters vivid, descriptive, and persuasive.
In Maths this week we built on our Year 1 knowledge of mass and capacity, learning how to measure and compare these quantities. Additionally, we introduced the concept of word problems within these topics. To develop problem-solving skills, the students learned to underline key information in the problems, enabling them to determine whether addition, subtraction, or multiplication is needed for a solution.
In Geography, our class embarked on an exciting tour of the towns we designed. We identified and discussed the human and physical features of our respective towns, while also making comparisons to the town of Whitby.
Thank you for your continued support.
Monday | Tuesday | Wednesday | Thursday | Friday |
Read Write Inc Handwriting Maths Fluency Break Maths Singing Worship Spelling Lunch Science Reading Computing | English Handwriting Maths Fluency Class Collective Worship Break Maths English Lunch PE History
| Read Write Inc Spelling Clergy Worship Break Maths Reading Lunch Story PE PSHE | Read Write Inc Spelling Phase Worship Break Maths Handwriting Maths Fluency Lunch Geography Reading Discovery Centre | Read Write Inc Handwriting Maths Fluency Celebration Worship Maths Break Reading Art Lunch RE Geography |
Children should be reading everyday and once a week this can be logged on Boom reader.
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.
The new spelling groups have been working well this week. Please see below the spellings per group. Spelling test will be Wednesday 20th March.
Miss Bryant's Group
jumping
jumped
calling
called
shouting
shouted
buzzing
buzzed
washing
washed
Miss Owen/ Miss Lewis' Group
because
Wild
cold
Plant
Beautiful
People
Parents
Who
Climb
kind
Miss Bryan's Group
many
some
should
come
any
would
there
their
Mrs Hughes' Group
oil
join
soil
spoil
coin
foil
point
Please 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.
In Year 2 we are currently practising our 2, 5 and 10 multiplication. Please find a maths game here to help practise multiplication as part of our current multiplication and division unit.
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
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.