Southborough Church of England Primary School
Southborough Church of England Primary School
Staffordshire
Easter Holiday Art Challenge – 4th April to 25th April 2025
Week 2- WB 28/4/25 Staffordshire
Term 5 week 2
We have all being enjoying the lovely weather this week! Please do send a clearly named hat into school for the children to wear outside. Please also name water bottles as these are often taken around the school with the children during warmer weather and if they are named are more likely to make there way back to your child, should it be left anywhere!
We have continued to enjoy our text for the term 'Starbird' and have been creating our own stories about the Princess in the tower this week. The freedom of creative writing has inspired many of the children and they have enjoyed the opportunity to share their creative writing ideas.
In maths we continue to look at fractions and have begun to find halves, quarters and thirds of numbers. This is a challenging aspect of the topic, please practise multiplying and dividing by 3 where you can. You don't need any special resources, just simply practising grouping in 2s, 3s and 4s at home with anything you can find e.g. toy cars, pencils, dry pasta etc will really hep to support your child's learning.
During our weekly visit to the Discovery Centre, the class were logging on to MyOn to do some research about moths and butterflies. Miss Wesbroom noted that that the class were particularly familiar with the system, which was lovely to hear, as I know many of you are using this extensive resource at home. Thank you for supporting your child's love of reading and progress in this way.
We are all enjoying our history topic for this term 'Magnificent Monarchs'. We explored the power of William the Conqueror, Henry VIII and King Charles and the children showed maturity in discussing the different ways in which Monarchs have been allowed to rule over the centuries.
In preparation for our exciting trip to the Wildlife Reserve, we are learning about habitats and the different adaptations that animals and insects have to help them survive in their environments. We are all looking forward to putting this into practise at the Wildlife Reserve in a fortnight's time!
We still have a number of children bringing items to school. Please could you ensure that children are not bringing toys, jewellery, smart watches or home stationery in to school. I think a few treasures are creeping into school bags and are proving a little distracting and can be a cause of tension between children. Can I also remind you that the children do not need pencil cases at school, as we are able to provide all the stationery that they need in year 2.
Thank you for your support in this.
Mother's Day Breakfast - Power of Five presentation
Home Learning:
- MyON Reading: Please ask your child to log onto Renaissance: MyON to make use of this fantastic wealth of stories and non-fiction texts. MyON is accessed using the same login as Renaissance (AR quizzes) asnd is a fabulous resource filled with ebooks that your child can choose to read and then simply quiz straight away, by clicking 'quiz now'. If you need a login please don't hesitate to ask me at the end of the day, or mail the office for an electronic copy.
Reading
Children should be reading everyday and once a week this can be logged on
https://www.boomreader.co.uk/parents
- All children who are on RWI will bring home a RWI Reading book each Friday, please return them the following Wednesday.
- Children in Year 2 also begin to bring 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 https://www.southborough.kent.sch.uk/year-2-1/
Note: some children will bring home both a RWI Reading book and an AR levelled reading book - please read both with your child.
Please make sure your child's reading book is in their school bag every day so that we can read with them at school also. Thank you for supporting your child's learning in this way.
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
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.
Maths
In Year 2 we are currently learning about multiplication and division. Please find a maths game here to help practise fluency uisng times tables and the related division facts.
Spelling
| Mrs Hughes | Mrs Harding | Miss Lewis | Miss Miah | Mr Vater | Miss Rennie |
Leo K Luke Thales | Harriet Rosie Sydney Neve Hendrix Samuel D Amelie Edith Olivia Romi-Grace Albert | Rose Lucas Cora Elisabeth Zachary Edward Harry Theo D Jethro | Dolly Benjamin Theo L Samuel C | Everett |
Leo P Aria |
air fair chair hair lair pair hairy fairy | key trolley chimney monkey hockey turkey honey valley beautiful children | Perseverance thoughtful disappointment refreshment achievement eventually gracefully terrible equipment Tunbridge Wells | chimney alley donkey valley trolley turkey keys monkeys honey kidney | stop stopping shop shopping chat chatting begin beginning run running
| stop stopping shop shopping chat chatting begin beginning run running |
If you wish to practise further spellings, please see the link to common exception words below.
Please also find linked below the list of spellings Year 2 will be practising throughout the year. Strategies to practise spellings can be found on the Oxford Owl website, here.
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/
Meet the Teacher
Curriculum overview
A typical week in Staffordshire 2
| Monday | Tuesday | Wednesday | Thursday | Friday |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Morning | Morning | Morning | Morning | Morning |
Early learning & register Maths morning play Spelling English
| Early learning & register Read Write inc. Maths morning play reading - DC Art | Early learning & register Read Write inc. Reading collective worship morning play Spelling - test maths | Early learning & register Read Write inc. maths collective worship morning play Spelling maths | Early learning & register Read Write inc. maths celebration worship morning play maths reading |
| Lunch | Lunch | Lunch | Lunch | Lunch |
TA story Science Afternoon play Singing Worship PE Home time | TA story Geography Afternoon play Geography cont. Home time | TA story PSHE Afternoon play Computing Home time | TA story Handwriting English Afternoon play PE Home time | TA story RE Afternoon play Music Home time |
Year 2 Class Teachers
Year 2 Teaching Team
Specialist Teachers
