Southborough Church of England Primary School
Southborough Church of England Primary School
Surrey 2 - Term 4, week 3
Term 4 week 4
We have been very busy this week in Surrey class!
We all enjoyed World Book Day and had the opportunity to read with a year 5 class. We all liked reading to an older child and have them read to us too! We enjoyed sharing our favourite books and seeing what we had all decided to bring.
In maths we have moved on to learning about mass. We have compared the mass of different objects and used the language lighter and heavier and begun to read scales to measure in grams and kilograms. It would be lovely if you could encourage your child to look at reading scales while cooking and talk about the comparative weights of ingredients!
We have been writing letters in English this week, as if we are the Starbird describing his ‘perilous journey’. The children have enjoyed describing the different settings of the jungle, the ocean and the mountain top and have successfully written in the first person.
This week is British Science Week and we have been investigating ‘Time’. We enjoyed making sand timers and experimenting with calibrating them to time one minute! We will be using them to investigate time further later this week.
A few parents have asked me recently 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/
Children should be reading everyday and once a week this can be logged on Boom reader.
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.
The new spelling groups have been working well this week. Please see below the spellings per group. Spelling test will be Wednesday 20th March
Miss Bryant's Group
jumping
jumped
calling
called
shouting
shouted
buzzing
buzzed
washing
washed
Miss Owen/ Miss Lewis' Group
because
Wild
cold
Plant
Beautiful
People
Parents
Who
Climb
kind
Miss Bryan's Group
many
some
should
come
any
would
there
their
Mrs Hughes' Group
oil
join
soil
spoil
coin
foil
point
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.
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 measuring in centimetres.
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 |