This year your teacher in Miss Fowler!

Supporting us in class will be Mrs Fowles in the morning and Mrs Harrison in the afternoon. 

Forest School will take place every Monday come rain or shine!

For Forest School sessions please bring the following:

- Wellies 

- Waterproof coat or puddle suit. 

- A full set of spare clothes (Please send in old clothes as the children will get muddy!) 

- Warmer clothes such as joggers and hoodies for the winter months. 

Forest school sessions run throughout the Autumn term, ending in December. 

PE will take place on Tuesday and Friday this half-term:

For PE sessions please bring the following:

- Black shorts, leggings or jogging bottoms

- White t-shirt or polo shirt

- Black pumps or trainers

It is usually best to leave your child's PE kit in school for the half-term so that it is always available to use.

Please ensure every item is clearly named.

It is important that your child brings their reading book into school each day as the days on which they will be able to read with an adult may change from time to time. It is also crucial that you listen to your child read each evening and ensure that you sign their reading record highlighting what they have read and how they performed.

Within this class reading records will be checked and books changed on a Monday. Please make sure your child has their purple reading folder with them every Monday.

Homework will be set on a Tuesday through our online learning platform, SeeSaw. A link for which is placed below:

https://app.seesaw.me/#/login

All homework should be completed by the following Monday and will be checked by your teacher on this day. Please make sure that if you are having difficulties with the homework, that you contact your class teacher with plenty of time so that they can assist your child in its completion. In addition, the school also run a homework club which can really help support those children that struggle completing their tasks independently.

                                                                   Topic - Fire, Fire!

As writers we will:
Join words using and
• Punctuate sentences using a capital letter and a full stop
• Use capital letters for names of people and places
• Sequence sentences (link ideas or event by pronoun)
• Spell words containing phonemes already taught
• Use plural noun suffixes -s and -es

As mathematicians we will:
Count beyond 20
Count tens 
Groups of tens and ones
Partition into tens and ones
Use a place value chart
Flexible partitioning
Number lines
Estimate on a number line
1 more and 1 less Step
Compare numbers with the same number of tens
Compare any two numbers
Order objects and numbers

As Historians we will:
Know that we can learn about the past through historical sources

Know that historical sources can tell us different things

Know the Great fire of London started on Sunday 2nd September 1666.

Explain why the great fire spread so quicky (including weather, Tudor house design, compact streets and the lack of a fire service in my answer.)

Know that Samuel Pepys was a famous diarist who kept an account of everything that happened around that time.

Know that the fire of London started in Thomas Farriner’s bakery in Pudding Lane from a spark from an oven.

Know that Thomas Bludworth was the Mayor of London at the time and that he ignored the warning signs of the fire

Know that Samuel Pepys buried cheese and wine because he wrote about it in his diary.

Know that King Charles II was the King at the time

Know that the Great Fire London caused the creation of the fire office

As Geographers we will:

We will be locating the capital cities of each country in the UK and their flags.

We will find out why London is an important city in England and locating some of the famous monuments.

As year one scientists we will:
The name and order of the four seasons: spring, summer, autumn and winter.

That it is unsafe to look directly at the Sun.

The weather associated with the four seasons and how it changes (in the UK).

That day length varies across the four seasons, with fewer daylight hours in the winter

and more in the summer.

About a range of jobs and careers that use scientific knowledge and methods, e.g.

weather reporter.

Explore the world around us and raise simple questions.

To collect data in the form of pictograms and analyse the data, answering simple

questions based on the data.

As year two scientists we will:

Learning about different properties of materials.

Understanding the suitability of materials and why they are used for different purposes.

Plan and complete investigations to test materials for different properties. 

Learn about Charles Mackintosh and his famous invention.

As learners of Religious Education we will be learning:
What can we say about peace as part of the good news Christians believe Jesus brings?
How did Jesus choose his first disciples?
What does the story Matthew and the tax collector tell us?
What do Christians believe Jesus showed them about how to pray? 
What does the story of Jesus and the Ten Lepers tell us?

As learners of PSHCE we will be:

Learning how and who to ask for help.

Learning how medicines work and how to use them safely.

Learning how to stay safe, including at home and when crossing the road.

Learning about some of the changes that have happened to you since you were a baby

Learning about how it feels when there is change or loss

Learning how to keep my body healthy

Learning how to keep my body clean and stop germs from spreading

As Computer Technicians we will be learning:
An algorithm is when instructions are put in an exact order
Decomposition means breaking a problem into manageable chunks, which is important in computing.
Errors in an algorithm are called bugs and fixing these is called debugging.

As Musicians we will:
Listen to work from well-known composers

Explain whether we like a piece of music or not

Be able to talk about successful music compositions and possible improvements we can make

Use our voices to play along to a melody

To use body percussion and percussion instruments to play along to a piece of music

To represent our music using a graphic score