Miss Clarke and Miss Rinaldi
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. Nightingales 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.