Welcome to the Summer  Term

 

 

 

This term, our topics will be, 'What's In my Garden'   and 'Explorers' 

This term your child will be working together as a whole class. There will be plenty of practical activities and lessons too.  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. This term we will be saying our sentences, writing and reading them back to make sure it makes sense. We will learning about pre-fixes and suffixes, singular and plural nouns this term.  We will continue with handwriting and making sure our words sit on the line.

In June, we will be completing our phonics screening test. Please practise reading as much as possible at home.

In Maths we will be following Active Learn focusing on mulitiplication and division, fractions, numbers up to 100 and money. .  You will be able to log on to Active Learn at home to play some Maths games to support your learning.  You can support your child further by using numbers in every day life, i.e. going to the shop, making cakes.

This half term our English will be centred around gardens, plants and vegetables. In Science, we will be growing different plants and observing the different plants around the school. We will be tasting fruit and making smoothies in DT. In Summer 2, we will be looking at explorers in History and having a whole school trip to explore the beach.

We look forward to another successful term.

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

PE days are Tuesdays 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.

The Peacock Team