Spirituality Home Learning Project

Please see this document for details of an exciting whole school project that we would like the children and families to take part in for home learning over the half term break. 
We would like children to bring their findings in to school by Wednesday 29th October please.

Please also remember to go through this with your class before they go home on Friday afternoon. 

Many thanks for all your support for our focus on Spirituality, happy leaf hunting!
 

This week (beginning 27th October 2025)

Welcome back to Term 2. It has been lovely to see the children return refreshed and ready to learn. In English, we have begun exploring our new text The Last Wolf. The children have been making predictions about what might happen next and explaining what clues from the story helped them. We are also learning how to use subordinating conjunctions such as if, when and because to extend our sentences. You might hear the children practising this at home. For example, they might say, “I will read more when I finish my snack,” or “We stayed inside because it was raining.”

In Maths, we are continuing to work with two-digit numbers. The children are adding and subtracting amounts where they may need to cross ten and exchange. We are practising using tens and ones to help us understand how numbers are made and how they can be exchanged to solve calculations.

In Science, we have started learning about habitats. A habitat is a place where plants and animals live. Some habitats are local, such as parks, woodland and gardens, and others are further away like beaches, rainforests, deserts, oceans and mountains. We are thinking about how each habitat provides animals with food, water, shelter and space.

We have also really enjoyed looking at the wonderful leaves the children collected and brought in as part of the spirituality home learning project over half term. Thank you for supporting them with this.

A reminder that this term there will be no Forest School on Thursdays. Instead, the children will have PE, so PE kits will need to remain in school all week.

Thank you for your continued support, and please do get in touch if you have any questions.

The Durham 2 Team 💫

Spelling (Term 2 Week 1-2)

Here are the spellings your children can practise at home to support their learning. The following link will take you to the spelling scheme we are working from in school Oxford Owl Primary Spelling. The following document contains spelling strategies that are used in class, and can be used at home to aid learning new words: Southborough's Spelling Strategies

A typical week in Durham 2...

Maths, Numbots and Timestable RockStars

To use Numbots or TTRS, for games to support number knowledge, timestables and fluency go to https://play.numbots.com/#/intro or https://play.ttrockstars.com/auth. If you need your child's log-in please ask your class teacher.

Reading

Parents please log your child's reading on the BOOM reader Parent Portal or by using the BOOM reader parent app on your tablet/mobile no more than once a week. You can record their school reading book or a book they are enjoying from home. 

Your child will bring home a Read Write Inc. book every Friday with speed sounds to practise. Children are asked to bring these back in on Wednesdays please.

Read Write Inc. Phonics

Please click on the link to view how to pronounce the Read Write Inc sounds.

Click here for Read Write Inc sound pronunciation