Southborough Church of England Primary School

Surrey

Summer Home Learning 2024

Home Learning Task Summer 2024

Dear Children

Teachers have chosen a theme from your key text for Term 1 for you to explore over the summer. This is an opportunity for you to be creative and widen your knowledge about our wonderful world so you can use your new knowledge throughout Term 1 to support yours and your classmates learning. Your task is to create a knowledge organiser to use in class. Think about the learning you did in class around using pictures and words to help us remember information. If you want to create anything in addition to your knowledge organiser, or bring photos, artwork etc. which link to your theme, your new teachers would be delighted! We will be using and displaying your work throughout the term.

Please bring your learning into school on Tuesday 3rd September to share with your new teacher and classmates.

Curriculum overview

YEAR 2 Curriculum Overview 2023 2024.pdf

Surrey 2 – Term 6 week 7

This week we have been consolidating our learning about telling the time and fractions. The children have been able to recall this learning from earlier in the term well, but please do ask them to tell the time on analogue clocks whenever possible to keep that ticking over...

In English we have completed our beautiful book 'Leaf' and the children have enjoyed thinking about the implications of climate change in reference to this lovely text. They have also noticed the themes of kindness and compassion and it has been heart-warming to hear them talk about the actions of the animals in the story in this way.

In history we are exploring Royal residences, including Buckingham Palace, Osborne House and the Tower of London. On Thursday 18th and Friday 19th July we will be making our own Royal Residences in class. Thank you to those who have already brought some boxes in named bags, please bring anymore that you have tomorrow and Friday! Royal Residences will come home at the end of the week or on Monday if we are waiting for paint to dry!

Some parents have asked about Star Reader book quizzes. If you need your child’s login for Accelerated Reader again please do ask. We are also beginning to do more of these quizzes in class time with children, but any you can do at home will also help to progress your child’s comprehension skills when reading.

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

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.
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 17th July

Miss Bryant's Group

because

pretty

improve

would

should

could

everybody

climb

sugar

clothes

Miss Owen/ Miss Lewis' Group

Enjoyment

Treatment

Amazement

Attachment

Employment

Payment

Replacement

Development

Movement

Measurement

Miss Bryan's Group

enjoy

enjoyment

treat

treatment

amaze

amazement

agree

agreement

replace

replacement

Mrs Hughes' Group

this

put

them

there

asked

could

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 statistics and data handling. Please find a maths game here to help with creating and interpreting charts..

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