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.

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.

Week Beginning 24th November 2025

PE will now take place on Mondays and Tuesdays for the remainder of Term 2.

We’ve had a wonderful week of learning in Shropshire 2!

In maths, the children have been exploring different coins and notes, learning to recognise them, count them, and make amounts in multiple ways. They are becoming much more confident with money and its value. Feel free to ask them to show off their coin-counting skills at home—practising skip counting in 2s, 5s and 10s will be especially helpful for our lessons next week.

In handwriting, we have started joining letters using the RWI handwriting scheme. The class has really enjoyed using the “cake with sponge and jam” image to guide their letter formation and joins.

In English, the children have been planning informal letters. We’ve been focusing on using informal language and writing in the past tense, with lots of practice using -ed endings correctly in sentences.

In Science, we’ve been learning about food chains. The children now understand that a food chain shows how energy moves from one living thing to another. They can identify producers (plants), prey, and predators, and explain how each part of a food chain relies on the others.

In Design and Technology, we’ve begun designing and making Christmas cards that include moving mechanisms. The children have been experimenting with levers and sliders to add motion to their card designs.

Thank you for supporting the foundation home learning tasks. The children have really enjoyed sharing their work, and we’ve been so impressed by their creativity and thoughtful ideas. It has made a real difference in helping them deepen their understanding in class.

The Shropshire 2 Team 💫

A Typical Week in Shropshire 2 looks like...

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

Reading

Please click on the link to view how to pronounce the Read Write Inc sounds. Click here for Read Write Inc sound pronunciation. Children should be reading everyday and once a week this can be logged on Boom Reader. Children will bring home a RWI Reading book each Friday, please return them the following Wednesday.

Numbots

To use Numbots, for games to support number knowledge, confidence and fluency go to https://play.numbots.com/#/intro  If you need your child's log-in please ask your class teacher.