Miss Brooke and Mrs Crump
Throughout the past two terms the children have worked especially hard, particularly improving their writing quality and independence across all areas of the curriculum. These high expectations will continue as we make our way through the remainder of the year in preparation for Year 3.
Throughout the Summer Term, we will be reading the narratives ‘The Lighthouse Keeper’s Lunch’, ‘Jack and the Beanstalk’ and ‘The Killer Cat’, among other texts in English. The children will have the opportunity to write diaries, letters, character descriptions, narratives and other genres. We will continue to develop our understanding and use of key grammar terms, punctuation and spelling rules.
In Mathematics, we will begin by exploring money by learning how to make specific values in different ways and solving problems involving addition and subtraction, including giving change. We will learn to tell the time to five-minute intervals, explore positions and directions including making quarter and three quarter turns clockwise and anti-clockwise, and also estimate, measure and compare using the appropriate standard units of measure. In Science this term, we will investigate what plants need to live and progress to explore different habitats and why a living thing lives in a particular habitat.
Our Geography topic is India. We will develop our place knowledge through studying the geographical similarities and differences between Chembakolli and Chard. In History, we will research and collect evidence to answer our enquiry question ‘Why was Queen Victoria’s reign significant?’ We will continue to develop our understanding of the Christian faith in RE by exploring their own beliefs about love.
In Art, we will develop our understanding and use of textures, dye and print and in DT, we will learn to use a running stitch to create our own bunting. Magpies will be taught P.E on Wednesday and Thursday afternoons.
Please support your child at home by listening to them read 5 times a week and recording this in their reading record. Homework will be set on a Thursday to be handed in by the following Wednesday.
Welcome to Magpies with Miss Brooke and Mrs Crump. The children are continuously working hard and are striving to deepen their knowledge and develop new skills.
In English this term, we will be reading ‘George’s Dragon Goes to School’, ‘Room on the Broom’ and ‘The Lighthouse Keeper’s Lunch’. We will be writing for a range of purposes including narratives, diaries, character descriptions and much more. We will be learning to use subordinating conjunctions, the singular possessive apostrophe and commas in a list. These will be practised and applied in our writing.
In Mathematics, we will begin by learning and using strategies for multiplication, to help us recall our two, five and ten times tables. We will then explore division and how these two operations are related. Throughout the rest of the term, we will be learning about fractions by finding 1/4, 1/3, 2/4 and 3/4 of an amount, number and shape and developing our ability to tell the time.
In Science this term, we will be exploring everyday materials. We will look at why objects are made from certain materials and how they can change their shape. Our Geography topic is Oceans and Seas. We will be naming and locating oceans and seas and comparing the human and physical geographical features of different coasts. In History, we will be learning about the achievements of two significant individuals – Mary Anning and Grace Darling to answer our enquiry question ‘Who was more significant?’ We will develop our skills with painting and printing to produce ocean scenes in Art and design and prepare our own healthy lunches in DT. In RE, we will be answering the question ‘What do Christians believe about forgiveness?’.
Magpies will be taught P.E on a Wednesday and Thursday afternoon.
Please continue to support your child at home by listening to them read 5 times a week and recording this in their reading record. Homework will be set on a Thursday and will need to be handed in by the following Wednesday.
We hope you have had a restful Christmas Holiday and are looking forward to welcoming you back to Magpies very soon.
Miss Brooke and Mrs Crump.