Teacher: Miss Swain
PPA Teacher: Mr Hayes
Teaching Assistant: Mrs Newing and Ms Barlex (student teacher)

This page is dedicated to all the exciting things we will be doing in class this year.

Dear Magpies,

Term 1

Dear Parents/Carers

Literacy/Topic

Our topic this term is ‘What if dinosaurs had never become extinct?’ - I think the children will be very excited about it! In our literacy lessons we’ll be writing dinosaur poetry, creating dinosaur fact files and writing an imaginative story! We will learn about early fossil discoveries from Mary Anning, create our own dinosaur bones and build dinosaur habitats.

In Maths this term we will be learning about place value and addition and subtraction. Our focus for this term will be ‘Living Things and their Habitats’. We will be identifying microhabitats around school and even making our own.

P.E
This term P.E. will be taught on Thursday and Friday. School uniform should be worn into school and children will get changed before their P.E lesson. Please bring P.E kit (plimsolls/trainers, shorts/tracksuits, T-shirt and jumper) to stay at school. This term our units will be cricket and multi-skills.

Reading

Each morning I will ask your child if they need to change their reading books. Every day the children will have the opportunity to read during our afternoon ‘DEAR time’ (drop everything and read time). Some children will be starting our ‘Accelerated Reading’ program where they will complete quizzes that test their comprehension of the books they have read. Others will continue using our Little Wandle books. We will try our hardest to make sure we hear your children read at least once a week. Please do read with your child at home as often as possible, it makes such a difference and really boosts their love of books! If possible, please ask your children questions about the book they are reading to increase their understanding of the text. It is better that a child takes slightly longer to read a book and fully grasps its contents, than speeding through a text without having understood it. We ask the children to read through each book 3 times.

Spellings

Spellings will be sent out on a Friday and a spelling test will be completed the following Friday. Please try and practice these at home.

Homework grids for the new term will be handed out in the first week. These will consist of activities linked to the topics that we are learning this term.
It is up to you and your child how many you complete over the forthcoming weeks.
You can bring work in to show the class or email me
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Please do let me know if you have any queries

Miss Swain

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