This week (beginning 7th September 2025)

What a fantastic second week in Year 2! This week in maths, the children have been exploring place value up to 100. They impressed us with their careful use of practical equipment to partition numbers into tens and ones, and many enjoyed the challenge of spotting patterns when counting in 2s, 5s and 10s. It has been wonderful to see the children's confidence when explaining their reasoning and working together to solve problems.

In English, the class have written their very own persuasive leaflets all about an exciting meteor shower, inspired by our class text Look Up! by Nathan Bryon. They thought carefully about how to grab the reader’s attention with bold slogans, fun facts and even rhetorical questions – some children were very convincing indeed! In geography, we have been learning about compass points, using games to practise giving directions such as “go north” or “turn west.” In history, we looked at Dame Kelly Holmes, a local significant figure, and the children enjoyed discovering how her determination and perseverance led her to Olympic success.

Our first Forest School session was a big hit. The children threw themselves into activities such as den building, log dragging, crafting with natural materials and leaf printing. It was fantastic to see them working as a team, using problem-solving skills and showing lots of creativity. The resilience and enthusiasm on display were brilliant, and we’re already looking forward to the next session!

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