Southborough Church of England Primary School
Southborough Church of England Primary School
Surrey
Curriculum overview
Surrey 2, Term 5 week 2
This week the children have been working really hard to understand fractions of shapes and quantities. We have explored finding a half, a quarter and a third and related this to dividing by 2, 4 and 3. The children have really applied themselves and begun to see the relationship between fractions and division and thank you to those who are supporting at home by talking about fractions in relation to sharing and preparing food, tidying up etc. Real life maths really helps to imbed the children's learning!
We are all enjoying reading 'The Iron Man' and the children have written some fantastic descriptions using similes ( as... as a....) and expanded noun phrases ( adjective, adjective noun) to describe the Iron Man. The children have been making adventurous predictions about what is still to come in the story. The children have enjoyed looking at some other robots and materials that the Iron Man could be made from.
Our science topic this term has really sparked the children's interest and we all enjoyed a discussion and a sorting activity about invertebrates. We were surprised by some of the things we learned about them, do ask your children to share the facts that we found interesting about the minibeasts and invertebrates that we investigated.
We try to make time for a short 'Show and Tell' session at the end of Friday afternoon. Please remember that items should relate to our learning or be a 'special' item such as a certificate or letter they have received. Please no toys. We do not always have time for all the children to take a turn, but we will endeavour to give children an opportunity to share.
Thank you so much for encouraging your children to use Times Tables Rockstars and Numbots. We all enjoy finding out who our Rockstar and Botstar of the week are and we are working hard to try and win Rockstar class and Botstar class of the week! Please ask if you need login details for these websites.
A few parents have asked me about the methods we use for teaching maths at Southborough. Please see below a link to our calculations policy which shows the methods used in each year group. Please ask if you have any further questions.
https://www.southborough.kent.sch.uk/mathematics/
Home Learning:
Reading
Children should be reading everyday and once a week this can be logged on Boom reader.
- 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.
Both books should be left in their bags so they can read them at school, as well as at home, to enhance their fluency.
Spelling
The new spelling groups have been working well this week. Please see below the spellings per group. Spelling test will be Wednesday 1st May
Miss Bryant's Group
race
ice
cell
city
fancy
face
space
bicycle
circle
spicy
Miss Owen/ Miss Lewis' Group
again
beautiful
because
father
people
water
everyone
everybody
pretty
whole
Miss Bryan's Group
key
donkey
chimney
turkey
trolley
jockey
money
hockey
alley
Mrs Hughes' Group
about
shout
out
loud
our
proud
house
round
Please 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.
Multiplication
Please continue to use Times Tables Rockstars and Numbots to support your child's multiplication learning. Please ask if you need a copy of your child's login details. We all enjoy our weekly announcement of Rockstar and Botstar of the week!
Maths
In Year 2 we are currently learning about measures. Please find a maths game here to help further practise with measuring and reading scales.
Surrey 2 - Usual Weekly Timetable
Monday | Tuesday | Wednesday | Thursday | Friday |
RWI | English | RWI | RWI | RWI |
English | Spelling | Spelling | Spelling | Spelling |
Singing | Collective Worship | Collective Worship | Collective Worship | Collective Worship |
Reading | Reading | Reading | Reading | Handwriting |
Maths | Maths | Maths | Maths | Maths |
Lunch time | Lunch time | Lunch time | Lunch time | Lunch time |
Maths fluency | Handwriting | PSHE | Maths Fluency | Art |
Geography | History | PE | Discovery Centre | RE |
Computing | PE | Music | Science | Show and Tell |
Home time | Home time | Home time | Home time | Home time |
Year 2 Class Teachers
Year 2 Teaching Team
Specialist Teachers
