Foundation Subjects Home Learning 

All of the children will have an investigative topic-linked learning task to complete, which is rotated over a three-week cycle. The children will focus on one of their three current foundation subjects each week.
To support this, the children are split into 3 groups, which you can see below.
This will be set on a Thursday and due by the following Tuesday.
In class on a Tuesday or Wednesday, the children will then share the outcomes of their research, and the knowledge they have retrieved, within their own group.

This week (beginning 3rd November 2025)

We’ve had another fantastic week in Durham 2, full of hands-on learning and creativity! In maths, the children have been exploring 2D and 3D shapes. They’ve been learning to name and describe them using the correct vocabulary — talking about sides, vertices (corners), edges and faces. They’ve really enjoyed sorting and comparing different shapes, spotting them around the classroom and playground, and discussing what makes each one special.

In English, we’ve been learning about expanded noun phrases — these are phrases that add detail to a noun using one or more adjectives, such as the tall, dark trees or the soft, golden leaves. The children have used these to plan setting descriptions of a forest, inspired by The Last Wolf. Their writing has been full of imaginative ideas and lovely descriptive language to help the reader picture the scene clearly.

In geography, we’ve been learning to identify physical and human features in our local area. The children have enjoyed talking about how natural features like woods and fields differ from human-made features such as houses, roads and the library.

In science, we’ve been learning to identify plants and animals based on their appearance and features. The children have been looking carefully at similarities and differences and using scientific vocabulary to describe what they notice.

We’ve also begun practising our Nativity songs — it’s lovely to hear the excitement growing already! Costume letters and scripts for those with speaking parts will be sent home on Friday.

Well done to all the children for their fantastic effort this week — they’ve been curious, creative and full of enthusiasm for their learning. Have a lovely weekend,
The Durham 2 Team💫

Spelling (Term 2 Week 3-4)

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