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)

Durham 2 have had another brilliant week full of thoughtful learning and enthusiasm. Firstly, a huge thank you to everyone who kindly donated to the Poppy Appeal. The children showed great understanding of the importance of remembrance, and the poppy snap bands have been very popular – proudly tapped, worn and admired throughout the week!

In maths, we have been developing our subtraction skills by learning how to exchange. When we don’t have enough ones to subtract, we exchange 1 ten for 10 ones to help us complete the calculation. The children have worked really hard on this step and are becoming much more confident in using it independently.

In English, the class wrote and edited their own exciting versions of Little Red, where Little Red becomes the one hunting the wolf. We focused on writing in the past tense and using subordinating conjunctions (words that connect two parts of a sentence, such as because, when, if, that,). The children really enjoyed adding suspense and drama to their sentences.

In geography, we compared the United Kingdom with Somalia. We learned that Somalia is in the Horn of Africa and lies close to the equator, which means it has a much hotter and drier climate than the UK. In summer, temperatures there can reach around 38°C, making life and farming quite different to what we are used to.

In science, we used the acronym MRS GREN to help us remember the seven characteristics of living things: Movement, Respiration, Sensitivity, Growth, Reproduction, Excretion, and Nutrition. We explored how all living things share these features and compared examples of living and non-living things.

The children have worked so hard and shown great curiosity and care in their learning. We hope you all have a restful 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