1. English Maths Geography ICT DT Music Taught by Miss Keen. PE We will play team games during PE. Please make sure you have your kit in school. RE We will focus on the Judaism as a different religion to Christianity. Art Science Seasonal Change Learning about the seasons and the weather. PSHE We will be looking at our new value Truthfulness. Trips & Workshops Unfortunately we have no trips or workshops this term. If you are free in the afternoons and would like to come in to help let us know. Special Days This term we have Sports Day, the whole school Transfer morning – where you go to your next years classroom and spend the morning getting to know your teacher. Using nature to make art work. Making textured pictures and prints from leaves. Design and construct an insect money bank. Please bring any junk modelling tubes, boxes, etc. We will continue learning how to use the laptops to improve our ICT skills. We will be learning all about insects and creepy crawlies from all over the world. We will investigate what insects live in our schools grounds. Information texts, Explanation texts, Spelling rules, grammar and punctuation. Continuing with calculations, Estimating, Measuring, Digital time, Place value, Comparing and ordering numbers, 2D & 3D shapes. Insects

2. Welcome back Class 2! I hope you all enjoyed the half term break and are ready to get back into the swing of things! This letter is to inform you about what we are up to in Class 2 this term, if there is anything that is unclear or you have any other questions or queries – please do not hesitate to contact me at school or via email: srock@hartpury.gloucs.sch.uksrock@hartpury.gloucs.sch.uk The Classroom For this term the special topic area is set up with 2 different habitats trays. As well as a special selection of information and story books all about insects. There are also butterflies and dragonflies hovering around. Homework Spellings Spellings for your child this term are attached to this letter, please check the date of the test above the list. For this term spellings will be linked to phonic families, using the same focus sounds in words, or spelling rules. Children will have different spellings depending on which phonic phase they are working on. Spelling tests will always take place on a Friday morning, spelling books will come home on Friday so you can see which words need to be practised further. This needs to be returned and handed in by Thursday. Use the green spellings book at home to write sentences containing the word to help them apply their spellings not just remember it for the test. Reading Books Children can have as many reading books per week as you would like, please feel free to change your books before or after school. Children will have a colour sticker on the front of their reading record book so you know which books are the right level for your child. Remember to record when you have read at home as I award a merit for each time. Maths Children will be given a mental maths target to practise, this will be noted in their yellow communication book. The children earn a bronze, silver and gold star then are given a new target to work on. These are also kept on the front of their maths books. The targets may be writing certain numbers correctly, learning number bonds or times tables off by heart. Occasionally there might be an online activity or game pack sent home (there will be a note sent home in this case). Remember to check for games and activities on the active learn site, try to collect as many coins as you can to spend! https://www.activelearnprimary.co.uk/login Other information Please ensure all your belongings are named to avoid confusion, anything unclaimed will be placed in lost property at the end of the day. If you have any insect themed books/toys/figures we could use this term please bring them and make sure your name is on them. Many thanks Miss Rock