Welcome Back to the Summer Term

I hope you all had a wonderful Easter Break and you are all rested and ready for an action packed Summer Term! 

Our whole school topic this Term is 'Ancient Civilisations'! The first Half Term we will be learning about the Ancient Egyptians', a much loved topic by all!

We will be exploring DB Primary, our virtual learning environment during our ICT lessons.This enables your child to communicate with their friends from the comfort of their own home! The children will be able to participate in quizzes and surveys, they will also be able to explore links to various educational websites! 

Homework

Please listen to your child read little and often. We suggest a few pages a night or morning if they prefer. 

Daily handwriting practice of the high frequency words.

Literacy and numeracy will be set on a Monday and will be expected in by the Friday! 

Spellings are to be learnt for a weekly test on Wednesday afternoon.

Please may your child bring a drinks bottle containing water only on a daily basis! 

I hope you have had a great Christmas Break and Father Christmas managed to visit you all.

Whole School Topic for Spring Term

Our whole school topic this term will be Food & Farming. During the course of the term we will be looking at: Where food comes from, to identify whether food groups originate from animals or plants, how animals are farmed, how plants/crops are farmed, to understand that people can grow their own food, to understand food needs to be changed from farm to fork to make it safe to eat and some basic farm to fork processes e.g. potato to chips, cow to milk etc.

We hope to visit a working farm to see firsthand how animals are looked after and how crops are grown. 

Homework

Your child has had a term to settle in and get used to the increased work load in the classroom. I feel they are all now ready for extra regular homework. Below is a weekly homework timetable. Your child must complete their homework and hand it in on time. Your child will be encouraged to be responsible for handing in their homework, in the morning with their reading book and reading record.

Daily –              Reading (at least a few pages)

                        Handwriting, a page a day.

Wednesday -      Spellings

                        Numeracy (to be returned on Friday)

Friday -             Literacy (to be returned on Monday)

Update on Thursday, April 25, 2013 at 3:39PM by Class 1

Year 1 & Year 2 combine on a Thursday afternoon, for ICT and History! This week in History we have been learning about Hieroglyphics. The children explored the different symbols which represent our alphabet. They then went on to create their own Cartouche! We found some of the symbols very tricky to copy and decided we liked our alphabet the best!

Update on Thursday, April 25, 2013 at 3:47PM by Class 1

We have been focusing upon Esafety during our first ICT sessions this term! We feel it is important that your children are educated on how to use the Internet safely! We have been watching and discussing Esafety clips on the website,

www.thinkuknow.co.uk/5_7/

We would strongly encourage you to explore this website further with your children and discuss Esafety as a family! Please make sure that you only explore the relevant age related pages! 

Welcome to Class One

This Autumn term our whole school topic is Dragons.  In Class One we will be linking Dragons across the curriculum, where possible.  We have already made our own Class One Dragon (he looks pretty cool and he is a very nice friendly dragon). In literacy, we have been looking at the book 'We're going on a Bear Hunt' and have transformed it to 'We're going on a Dragon Hunt'! If you want to bring in any Dragon related toys or books then please feel free to.

We have just started to look at China, and have created our own Chinese lanterns (displayed in our classroom).  We have a wonderful Chinese Takeaway Role-play area set up in our classroom, which is proving very popular with the children. In the coming weeks we will continue to study China and hope to cook our own chinese food. If you are able to help aid our learning then it will be much appreciated.

Thank you very much for listening to your child read on regular basis. We are trying our best to listen to each and every child read at least twice a week, as you can imagine this can be difficult at times. If you have any spare time and would like to come into school to listen to readers, please come and see me.

Please regularly check our Class One page to see photos and read what we have been up to