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.

Term 2 Week 5 WB 24/11/25

Excitement is mounting in Leicestershire 3 as we have begun rehearsing our Christmas play!

Please remember that costumes need to be in school on 4th December in a named carrier bag. Please ask if there are any queries about this. Our class are the Kings, Kings' assistants, camels and stars.

Stars: shiny clothes or dark trousers, shiny top

Kings: Colourful clothes and a simple cloak 

Kings' assistants: Colourful clothes

Camels: yellow, beige or brown tops and trousers.

Please no brand logos or writing on clothes.

In maths we are continuing our topic on multiplication and division. This week we have been exploring the 3 times table, revising the 2, 5 and 10 times table and will be moving on to look at the 4  and 8 times tables. Thank you for supporting this learning at home by continuing to use Times Tables Rockstars and practising times tables with your child. 

In English we are continuing our work on Ug, this week looking at speech in a text, using speech bubbles, speech marks (inverted commas) and exploring conversation through drama. We are all enjoying the comedy of this text but also exploring what it means to live in the modern age compared to the stone age. 

Many of the children have explored capital cities through their home learning and this week we put this into practise using ipads to explore google earth and identify landmarks in various European capitals. 

 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 2nd December

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

 adding the suffix ly

bad

badly

quick

quickly

kind

kindly

near

nearly

quiet

quietly

Mrs Smith's and Mrs Georgiades' groups -

Adding -ation to verbs to form nouns.

Plantation

Information 

Explanation 

Temptation 

Exploration

Sensation

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

Continued from last week:

break 

steak

great

bread

head

read

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

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.

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/