Online Advent Calendar

As Advent begins this Sunday with Advent Sunday celebrated in Churches, we would like to share this online Advent Calendar with you, produced by the Diocese of Guildford. It explores the Christmas story through Christian artwork, investigating a different artist and aspect of the story throughout the term time days of Advent. Please enjoy sharing this with your family as we prepare for Christmas in school and at home.

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 15th December 2025)

Thank you so much to all our parents and carers for attending the Year 1 and 2 nativity performance. Your support and encouragement meant a great deal to the children and helped make the event truly special. The children were incredibly proud to perform for you, and your smiles and applause gave them a real boost of confidence. We really appreciate you taking the time to celebrate this lovely occasion with us.

The Year 2 team would like to wish all our children and their families a very Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year. Thank you for your continued support throughout the term. We hope you enjoy a joyful holiday filled with rest, laughter, and special moments together. We look forward to welcoming the children back in the new year, ready for another exciting term of learning.

Merry Christmas,

The Durham 2 Team💫

Spelling (Term 2 Week 7-8)

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

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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