Mrs Moran

Welcome

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We hope you’ve all had a fantastic summer and are ready for the new term. We’ve got an exciting few months ahead, and we can’t wait to dive in! The Autumn Term is always a busy one, so here’s a little peek at what’s coming up:

English

To begin the school year, we are starting with the text ‘The First Drawing’ by Mordecai Gerstein, this is a great book, linked to our topic about ‘The Stone Age’. This book will develop our knowledge about life in the stone age and will also provide lots of great writing opportunities. We will be creating our own exciting stone age adventure to share with our families.

We will continue to work on our common exception word spellings and looking at a range of punctuation to make our writing exciting.

Maths

We are starting the year with the ‘Place Value’ unit in Power Maths, then moving onto addition and subtraction, partitioning numbers, comparing numbers and adding numbers on a number line.

We will be continuing to work on our times table knowledge and times table rockstars will really help to support this.

Science

This half term our science unit is ‘Animals including Humans’. We will be learning about the links between animals and humans. We be exploring vertebrates and invertebrates, looking at the function of muscles in the human body and learning about a balanced diet.

Topic

Our topic this half term is ‘The Stone Age’, we will learning all about this period of time and life in the Stone Age. There will be a stone age workshop, with lots of artefacts and information for us to enjoy and we will be creating our own Stone Age menu, then making the food,

Jigsaw

Our first Puzzle is called Being Me In My World. We will be discussing how we learn, how we can help others and our school community.

PE

PE will be TUESDAYS.

PLEASE REMEMBER TO BRING YOUR PE KIT. This should include a plain white t-shirt or Corrie t-shirt, plain black shorts or leggings and black pumps.

FOREST SCHOOL

Forest school will be on:
Wednesdays 3AC
Thursdays 3M

PLEASE REMEMBER TO BRING YOUR FOREST SCHOOL CLOTHES. This needs to be suitable clothing and footwear for wet, muddy activities.

HOMEWORK

We will continue to have a creative approach to our homework this term. You will be given Maths and Spelling homework each week as well as being able to choose from a range of creative activities in Topic.

Homework is given out on Friday and is due in the following Wednesday.

We read in class every day, so make sure you always have your Reading Log in school.

Please make sure you also read twice each week at home and ask an adult to sign your Reading Log for you.

We will check your Reading Log every WEDNESDAY to see that you have read at home, so please don’t forget!!

We’re really excited for this term, and we’re sure it’s going to be a great one!
Mrs Moran and Miss Allen-Cawley

Welcome to Year 2

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We hope you’ve all had a brilliant summer and are feeling refreshed and ready for the new term. We’ve got an exciting few months ahead, and we can’t wait to dive in! The Autumn Term is always a busy one, so here’s a little peek at what’s coming up:

English

To begin the school year, we are starting with the text ‘The Naughty Bus’ by Jan and Jerry Oke, this is a really fun book to kick start our brilliant work in English and will provide lots of great writing opportunities. We will be creating our own exciting adventure stories to share with our families.

We will be continuing to enhance our phonic knowledge and will be looking at lots of strategies to help us with our spelling of the Year 1 and 2 words.

Maths

We are starting the year with the ‘Numbers to 100’ unit in Power Maths looking at counting in 10’s to 100, partitioning numbers, comparing numbers and adding numbers on a numberline.

We will then be moving onto addition and subtraction, looking at the column method.

Science

This half term our science unit is ‘Uses of everyday materials’. We will be learning about different materials and how we use them in our everyday lives.  We be exploring the range of materials used in our school and will carry out a range of experiments to test the most suitable material for a particular task.

Topic

Out topic this half term in ‘Our Town, Our Denton’, we will be studying the history of Denton, the hatting industry and some local historical landmarks.

We will be carrying out fieldwork activities, using map and getting out into the local area.

Jigsaw

Our first Puzzle is called Being Me In My World.  We will be discussing how we learn, how we can help others and our school community.

PE

PE will be on Wednesdays.

PLEASE REMEMBER TO BRING YOUR PE KIT. This should include a plain white t-shirt or Corrie t-shirt, plain black shorts or leggings and black pumps.

FOREST SCHOOL

Forest school will be on Tuesdays.

PLEASE REMEMBER TO BRING YOUR FOREST SCHOOL CLOTHES. This needs to be suitable clothing and footwear for wet, muddy activities.

 

 

HOMEWORK

We will continue to have a creative approach to our homework this term. You will be given Maths and Spelling homework each week as well as being able to choose from a range of creative activities in Topic.

Homework is given out on Friday and is due in the following Wednesday.

We read in class every day, so make sure you always have your Reading Log in school.

Please make sure you also read twice each week at home and ask an adult to sign your Reading Log for you.

We will check your Reading Log every WEDNESDAY to see that you have read at home, so please don’t forget!!

We’re really excited for this term, and we’re sure it’s going to be a great one!

Thanks for your support, and we’ll keep you updated on all the exciting things your children are doing in class.

Mrs Moran and Miss Read