BEECH CLASS

Hello and welcome to Beech Class!

Mrs Sopel and Miss Mawdsley are the class teachers and Mrs Talbot also works within our class.

Our Core Text for this half term to support all of our learning within English is titled

'Little Red' by Bethan Woollvin

Our Spring 2 Term Topic is:

Toy Time

Enquiry Question:

How have toys changed over time? 

We will be covering many subjects through this topic:

Science - The children will identify and describe the simple physical properties of a variety of everyday materials. They will question whether a material floats or sinks and they will investigate and identify which materials absorb water.

PSHE - The children will learn how a person's behavior, including their own, can affect other people and they will understand the importance of looking after things that belong to themselves or to others. The children will also responsibly care for a class plant.

D.T - The children will design and construct their own moving toys using skills such as cutting, joining and decorating. They will research and explore how simple wheel and axle mechanisms can make them move. They will then test and evaluate their finished toys, reflecting on how well their designs met the user needs.

Maths - The children will explore the place value of numbers up to 50 and use this to partition numbers into tens and ones. They will also find 1 more and 1 less of given numbers to 50. The children will explore weight, height, length and volume and the unit measures linked to these.

English - The children will share their family’s favourite stories and they will use simple adjectives to describe the characters and settings within each story. The children will write accurate, interesting sentences and they will continue to extend their sentences using conjunctions. They will also focus on a number of quality texts linked to their topic including ‘Little Red’ by Bethan Woolvin.

 P.E. - The children will develop the core skills of spinning, skipping and bouncing. They will also use their bodies to create theme related shapes, movements and actions during focused dance lessons.

R.E - The children will explore how and when we celebrate special and sacred times. The children will learn from different religious and spiritual ways of life linked to Easter and Pesach (Passover).

Computing - The children will explore how stories can be presented in a variety of ways. They will learn how to add animations and sound effects to an image and they will create their own digital story

Other Information

· Beech Class have P.E. on Tuesday and Wednesday. Please ensure your child has a full P.E. kit in school fully labelled with their name. PE Kits will be kept in school until the end of a half term. 

· Reading book bags need to come into school every day and children will be given new reading books once a book has been read twice. Please ensure you read with your child every night and leave a comment in their reading records stating when you have read and how many pages you have completed.

 · Homework will be given out on a Friday with a task for children to complete at home. Homework Books will need to be returned to school and completed by the following Thursday.

· Alongside Reading, to further support your child at home you can allow them time to work on free games to support their Phonics Learning. They can access these using the link and log in details below for the website Phonics Play. Click the image to take you straight to the website!

If you have any queries or worries please get in touch.

Thank you for your support!

Mrs Sopel and Miss Mawdsley

J