Willow Class

Hello and welcome to Willow Class!

I’m Miss Street and I am the class teacher. We are lucky to have Miss. Spencer working with us this year!

Summer 1 Topic

Famous Explorers

We will be asking the question:

"Where did they go?"

Our English text for the beginning of Summer 2.

English - The children will begin the term exploring the story ‘Man on the Moon’ by Simon Bartram. They will describe the characters and settings within the story and they will begin to use a variety of sentence types. They will then compare stories from the same author and write an innovated story in the author’s style.

Science - The children will identify, name, draw and label the basic parts of the human body and describe the function of each part. They will perform simple tests to identify which part of the body is associated with sight, touch, sound, taste and smell.

PHSE - The children will identify things they could do as a baby, a toddler and can do now. They will explain the difference between teasing and bullying and the children will know the difference between boys and girls.

Art-The children will use painting to develop and share their ideas, experiences and imagination. They will explore colour mixing and paint layering before designing and painting their own abstract art. They will then share, discuss and evaluate their final art piece.

History- The children will discuss how we find out about the past. They will be history detectives themselves by looking at pictures of different explorers and saying what they can find out from them. They will then focus on a selection of famous explores including Neil Armstrong and Charles Darwin. 

Maths - The children will recognise the place value of numbers up to 100 through objects and pictorial representations. They will apply this to the four main operations; addition, subtraction, multiplication and division. The children will also recognise coins and understand the value of each one.

Other Information...

· Willow Class have P.E on Tuesdays and Wednesday. Please ensure your child has a full P.E kit in school fully labelled with their name. Kits will be kept in school until the end of term. Please ensure that earrings are not worn inline with school policy.

· Reading book bags need to come into school every day and children will be given new reading books on Tuesday and Friday once a book has been read twice. Please ensure you read with your child every night and leave a comment in their reading records.

· 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.

If you have any queries or worries please let me know.

Thank you for your support!

Miss Street