Welcome to the Spring Term

 

 

 

This term, our topics will be, 'It's a Wonderful World'   and 'Into the Wild' 

This term your child will be moving towards more whole class learning. There will be plenty of practical supporting activities, learning by doing and opportunities to play and learn throughout the week.  We expect Peacock class to always try their best, making 'every second counts.' Children are encouraged to share, be resourceful, imaginative and be able to respect the resources and tidy them away. 

In English, we will be continuing with Curious Quests - using our imagination, drawing skills, helping Professor Klunk along the way to  continue to develop our sentence writing. We will be writing our own poetry, narratives and recounts.  Alongside this, we will use Rainbow Grammar to understand different terminology and to write simple sentences.  We will continue to try to write neatly, holding the pencil correctly and following penpals handwriting scheme.

In Maths we will be following Active Learn focusing on numbers to 20. We will be ordering the numbers, adding and subtracting up to 10. Towards the end of the term we will learn about length, height, mass and capacity.  You will be able to log on to Active Learn at home to play some Maths games to support your learning. 

In Science, we will learn about seasonal changes and animals. There will be lots of practical activities to develop our scientific skills.  In Geography, we will learn about what it is like here - looking at our school environment and then learning about a contasting environment of Shangai. . In Art, we will look at colour mixing before creating our own puppets in DT. We continue to think about our wonderful world in R.E learning about why we should care for our world.

 

We look forward to another successful term.

 

 Please ensure ALL clothing, coats and shoes are clearly named.

PE days are Mondays and Fridays. Please come to school with appropriate PE clothes, hair tied back and no earrings (staff are unable to remove earrings for the children).

Please make sure shoes, including PE shoes, do not have laces unless your child can tie them independently. 

 

Phonics is key to all learning. Children are expected to read each day and are expected to change their own books independently.  Keyrings will be collected in and practised at school, please practise as much as you can at home too.

Spellings will be set on a Friday, with spelling tests to be carried out the following Thursday.

Homework books will be handed out on a Friday and are due back in the following Wednesday.

We look forward to teaching your children this year.

The Peacock Team