Miss Holland is your class teacher this year.

Our teaching assistants this year are Mrs Harrison and Mrs Warren. 

PE will take place on Tuesdays and Fridays this term. 

This half term we will have Yoga with Mrs Ash on a Tuesday afternoon.

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.

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.

Reading

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. 

The children will bring home a Book Bag Book, linked to their Read Write Inc. group and an independent reading book. 

Autumn 1

Topic: Who did it?

In Literacy we will be reading the story Lost and Found by Oliver Jeffers.
As readers, we will be: 

• Listening carefully to stories and talking about what happens. 
• Making predictions about what might happen next. 
• Learning new vocabulary from stories and discussing the meaning of unfamiliar words. 
• Sharing our ideas and opinions about the characters, settings and events in a story. 
• Developing our fluency and confidence when reading familiar texts. 

As writers, we will be:

• Combining words to write simple sentences. 
• Leaving spaces between words. 
• Using capital letters and full stops in our writing. 
• Using capital letters for names and for the word 'I'. 

As mathematicians, we will be:

• Sorting and grouping objects in different ways. 
• Counting, representing and comparing amounts. 
• Recognising, reading and ordering numbers. 
• Using mathematical language such as more, fewer, less than, greater than and equal to. 
• Finding 1 more and 1 less than a number. 
• Counting forwards and backwards within 10. 
• Exploring numbers on a number line. 

As scientists, we will be: 

• Naming parts of the human body and learning about our five senses. 
• Using our senses to observe, explore and find out about the world around us. 
• Sorting, grouping and investigating to answer scientific questions. 
• Understanding how our senses help us in everyday life and how scientists make discoveries. 

As learners of RE we will be: 

• Exploring the big question: Who do Christians say made the world? 

As learners of PSHE we will be: 

• Recognising and talking about different emotions. 
• Understanding that people can feel different emotions in the same situation. 
• Exploring ways to look after our wellbeing and manage our feelings. 
• Identifying what helps us to feel calm, happy and safe. 
• Learning who we can talk to if we need help or support.

As historians, we will be: 

• Naming different ways that we can find out about the past.
• Recognising the difference between the police in the past and the present.  
• Explaining how policing is similar and different between the past and the present. 
• Using common words and phrases relating to the passing of time such as before, after, yesterday, past, last year, a long time ago.
• Recognising who Robert Peel was and how his contribution can still be seen today.
• Recognising who Henry Faulds was and how his contribution can still be seen today.

As geographers, we will be: 

• Learning about our local area and the important places within it. 
• Identifying the country and continent where we live. 
• Talking about and describing our local environment.
• Recognising and identifying the different parts of an address. 

As musicians, we will be: 

• Clapping the rhythm of our name. 
• Clapping in time to music. 
• Singing the overall shape of a melody. 
• Playing in time to music. 
• Copying and creating rhythms based on word patterns. 
• Playing on the pulse. 

As artists, we will be: 

• Researching fingerprint techniques used by the artist Judith Anne Braun.   
• Using paint/charcoal to design, share and create fingerprint designs.   
• Using a range of techniques to create a finger palette portrait.
• Evaluating our finger palette portrait.   

As computer technicians, we will be: 

• Recognising cause and effect when pressing buttons on a Bee-Bot. 
• Discussing and demonstrating how the Bee-Bot works. 
• Recording a video, ensuring everyone is in the shot. 
• Giving several clear instructions in sequence. 
• Programming a Bee-Bot to reach a destination. 
• Identifying and correcting mistakes in programming.