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 29​​^th October please.

Term 2 Week 1 WB 29/10/25

Thank you all for embracing our Spirituality leaf project! The children have loved sharing their leave, their stories and where they found them.

In maths we are continuing to explore various strategies for solving addition and subtraction, now looking at column addition and subtraction, including crossing tens. This can be a challenging topic for children as they remember which strategy to apply for addition and which for subtraction. Any support you can give for this at home would be great.  

In English this week we have begun to explore our new class text 'Ug' by Raymond Briggs. The children are really enjoying the comic book style of this text  and are using their knowledge of the Stone Age to enhance their enjoyment of this amusing book. 

In Science this week we moved onto looking at muscles and how they help us to move. We enjoyed creating our own arm joint with a split pin and discussed how the muscles contract and relax to enable us to move. 

We have completed our Forest School sessions for now, many thanks to the parent volunteers who supported this activity. The children and adults all really enjoyed the experiences shared there and it has been heart-warming to hear about trips to the woods that children have made with their families to show them the site during the holiday!

 Please ensure that fully named PE kits are in school Monday to Friday. Please ensure also that your child has a named waterproof jacket or coat in school everyday. 

In year 3 fruit snacks are provided by parents, rather than school as in the lower years. Please send your child with a healthy snack that they can enjoy mid-morning. 

A reminder also please that children do not need pencil cases, all their stationery is provided in school. Please also keep soft toys and other treasures at home. Thank you for your support with this.

Spellings

Our next test will be Weds 5th November.

Your child should know which group they are in. Please note that Mrs Charlwood's group is now led by 

Mrs Lambert. 

Mrs Hughes' /Mr Grimes'/ Mrs Strudwick's groups

race

rice

face

icy

exercise

city

cell 

mice 

fancy

cycle

Mrs Smith's and Mrs Georgiades' groups -

Fabulous 

Nervous 

Jealous 

Famous 

generous 

Mrs Lambert's group ( formerly Mrs Charlwood's group)

Here 

There 

Where 

Were 

are 

L3 Usual weekly timetable (please note that there may be changes to this at times).

Home learning:

Reading:

Children should be reading everyday and once a week this can be logged on Boom Reader: 

https://www.boomreader.co.uk/parents

Children ibring home a book from the Discovery Centre which is levelled according to the Accelerated Reader (AR) scheme  https://www.southborough.kent.sch.uk/accelerated-reader-1/

These books can be returned and swapped as soon as they are finished. There is also a quiz                    associated with these books which children must complete after they have finished each AR book:  https://www.southborough.kent.sch.uk/year-2-1/

Some children will bring home both a RWI Reading book and an AR levelled reading book - please read both with your child. Both books should be left in their bags so they can read them at school, as well as at home, to enhance their fluency.

Maths:

Times Tables Rockstars/Numbots! 

To keep practising the multiplication taught in class, and challenging yourself to keep the ones you already know fresh, don’t forget to log into your Times Tables Rockstars account

https://play.ttrockstars.com/

Challenge yourself to beat your score, build your knowledge and watch your confidence sore, as you become a Rockstar!

To use Numbots, for games to support number knowledge, confidence and fluency go to https://play.numbots.com/

Please ask your class teacher if you need replacement log in details. 

Spellings: 

More information about how we teach spelling at Southborough and strategies to support your child at home can be found here: https://www.southborough.kent.sch.uk/spelling-3/