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Southborough Church of England Primary School

Southborough Church of England Primary School

Staffordshire

Easter Holiday Art Challenge – 4th April to 25th April 2025

Week 5-  19/5/25 Staffordshire 

 

Term 5 week 5

We had such a terrific day at the Wildlife Reserve last week. The children were polite and well-behaved and really enjoyed sharing their knowledge and learning more about habitats. We were lucky that it stayed dry, even if it was a little cooler than expected! I hope you enjoy seeing the pictures and thank you again to those parents who came to help on the day. 

 

In maths we have been continuing to learn about telling the time to an hour, moving on this week to quarter past and quarter to the hour.  If you can support at home by encouraging your child to tell the time using analogue clocks and talk about times through the day that will really help them to apply their learning to 'real life'. 

 

     In English we have completed the beautiful book 'Starbird' and the children have written some lovely descriptive poems, using adjectives and adverbs to ehance their descriptions.

We are all enjoying our History topic about Monarchs through History and I know the children are excited to move on to Henry VIII this week! We are also learning a song about him in music lessons, alongside our learning this term about rhythms and structure of music.

 

We hope you all have a lovely half term break and look forward to seeing you for term 6!

 

 We have noticed that a number of children are bringing small resin animals to school and swapping these. Please ensure that children are not bringing these figures into school as they are causing disruption and upset in class that we could avoid. 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

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.

 

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

 

Next test will be Thursday 22nd May 2025

There was some confusion over spelling lists last week. As a result, some groups may be repeating words to ensure all children have covered these rules. Many thanks for your patience and understanding. 

Mrs HughesMiss PackerMiss LewisMiss MiahMr VaterMiss 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

car

start

park

arm

garden

artist

star

are

 

jolliness

silliness

sloppiness

spiciness

giddiness

dizziness

bossiness

chattiness

sleepiness

cheekiness

fearfully

peaceful

spiteful

thoughtful

beautiful

happiness

loneliness

pavement

although

bitterness

silly

silliness

jolly

jolliness

bossy

bossiness

dizzy

dizziness

 

 

 

 

join

jacket

gentle

giant

magic

energy

large

charge

badge

bridge

 

 

 

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/

A typical week in Staffordshire 2

MondayTuesdayWednesday Thursday Friday
Morning Morning Morning Morning Morning 

Early learning & register
Read Write inc. 

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

LunchLunchLunchLunchLunch

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

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