Home-School-Agreement Please read.

Teachers:

• Miss Hemus – Class Teacher
• Mrs Green – TA
• Mrs Elliott – TA
• Melody- TA
• Miss Burnett- TA
• Miss O’ Connor – PPA (Thursday)

Our topic this half term is:

India

Literacy

This half term in Literacy, pupils will begin by planting sunflower seeds, using this hands-on experience to support their instructional writing. They will then explore the story Handa’s Surprise, focusing on developing their use of conjunctions and punctuation to improve sentence structure and fluency. Following this, pupils will write both formal and informal letters inspired by Goldilocks and the Three Bears. The half term will conclude with a phonics focus in preparation for the screening check.

Spelling tests will take place once a week on a Friday.

Maths

This half term in Maths, pupils will develop their understanding of fractions by recognising and finding halves and quarters of shapes, objects and quantities. They will then build upon their confidence in addition and subtraction within 20, including bridging ten and working with two-digit numbers. Pupils will also learn to find the difference between numbers and apply their knowledge in a range of contexts. Towards the end of the half term, they will explore measurement, comparing and ordering lengths and heights, and using both non-standard and standard units.

Science

This half term in Science, pupils will begin by growing sunflowers and monitoring their progress closely. They will learn to identify plants in their local environment as well as name the different parts of a tree and identify a variety of common trees, including comparing deciduous and evergreen types. They will also explore the structure of flowering plants and identify a range of common examples.

Here is our overview for this term’s theme –

Spellings:

Spelling tests will continue to take place every Friday. Paper copies of the spellings will be sent home every Friday to help children prepare for the following week.

Reading:

Reading journals and books should be brought in on Monday and Friday to be checked and changed.

Please have a look at the documents below with advice on how to support your child at home with reading. Thank you!

Reading-with-your-child-Journal-Note-KS1

Reading-with-your-child-Questions-to-ask-KS1-Vipers

For phonics support, please see the school’s dedicated phonics page.

Forest School will not be take place this half term!

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