8th March

Dear Parents,

Welcome back! It’s hard to believe we are already half way through the school year. Thank you for joining in class twos wedding day!

This half term looks to be a very busy and exciting one. The children are preparing for their SAT’s tasks at the beginning of next term and are enjoying doing the practise ones. Again these are ongoing and the children do not know that they are undertaking them.

Curriculum

We will be following a unit of work on a theme which focuses on The Things people do. During this unit we will be focusing upon society, history, music technology and art.

In our work on society we’ll be finding out

• How we spend our time

   

• How adults spent their time

   

In history we’ll be finding out

• How people worked in ancient times

   

• How to compare jobs and lifestyles then and now

   

In music we’ll be finding out

• Listening to and responding to music and in drama

   

• Making decisions about instruments

   

• Building a picture of sounds, called graphic score

   

In technology we’ll be finding out

• About products sold all over the world

   

• People who make products from all over the world

   

In art we’ll be finding out

• About the work of famous artists

   

• How jobs and work are portrayed through art

   

It would be great if you could spend some time explaining about your job or what you might do on a typical day.

Literacy:

• Explanations and Glossaries- giving explanations linked to science work, making dictionaries and glossaries of interesting words. The children will have to produce simple flow charts and diagrams again linked to their science.

   

• Syllables- children will need to identify multi syllable words like din-o-saur, fam-i-ly.

   

• Reading and comprehension skills

   

• Re-drafting and checking work

   

• Spelling- checking common high frequency words.

   

• Read and spell words with wh, ph,ch ( as in Christopher)

   

• To use comma’s in lists.

   

• To use verb tenses accurately- catch/caught

   

Numeracy

• Division- sharing equally

   

• Symmetry in shape and sequences in numbers- identifying the jumps, 2, 5,7,10 is sequence of +3+2+3 etc.

   

• Subtracting numbers to 100 using tens and unit’s apparatus.

   

•  Position and Direction

   

• Movement and angles- understand clockwise and anticlockwise, whole turns, quarter turns. Know that quarter turn is a right angle

   

• Ongoing practise of 2’s, 5’s and 10 times tables. Please practise these with your children at home.

   

PHSE- The whole school unit is called Going for Goals. This focuses very much on self awareness. The children will understand how they learn and identify their strengths. They will see how setting goals for themselves is positive and how they can reach these goals especially by breaking them into small steps.

As you can see we are in for a very busy but fun half term. Please let me know if you can help as it is much appreciated, there are always jobs that need doing. Please just pop in and let me know. 

Parents evening will be held at the end of term (details to follow) so I hope to see you all then.

Thank you once again for all your support.

Miss Lawrence