** 1 Lion - Mrs Downing and Miss Carton **

** 1 Crystal - Miss Southall and Mrs Rogerson **

Key Information:

Reading

Reading will take place in various formats, every day in school. Your child will read to adults in groups and one-to-one where appropriate. Every day begins with 10 minutes of the teacher reading to the children for pleasure. Reading frequently at home is essential. The children will be rewarded by moving up the Reading Ladder each day their diaries have been signed, so please ensure they bring their reading diaries and reading book to school each day. Children are rewarded with dojo points and anyone at the top of the ladder on a Friday will receive a special reading star sticker and have the chance to bring home Pudding and Comet, our Reading Puppies!

Home reading books will be changed every Friday. School books should be read at least 3 times per week to help with fluency. Of course, other books from home can be read for pleasure. 

Homework

Spelling and maths homework will be assigned on Doodle Learning each week once the children are settled. This gives the children opportunities to earn stars which they can trade in for online rewards and real treats in their class. 

Water bottles

It is important that children bring a water bottle into school every day. These bottles will be sent home each night to be washed and refilled. Please ensure bottles are the 'sport's cap' variety and do not have large open tops as these easily spill. We find the metal bottles to be most hard wearing as bottles do often get dropped or knocked over and the plastic ones do break easily. Please do not send the children with the bottles that spray water. Children may bring water or sugar free squash in their bottles and we can refill them throughout the day with water. 

PE

P.E days this half term are Tuesday (AM) and Thursday (PM). On Tuesday morning the children will work with our sports coach outside developing and learning ball skills. On Thursday the children will continue to work with Alex developing their skills of focus, respect and self-discipline. 

All children need to be wearing black bottoms, with a red polo or t-shirt and PLAIN black trainers. 

** Velcro or elastic trainers are preferable **

Class Dojo

Your children can now earn dojo points for positive behaviour, learning and displaying our school values. We will also keep you updated with our learning and achievements through our class stories so please ensure your notifications are active. We love to hear your feedback so please respond with likes and comments. We also love to share things that children have done at home so feel free to send us photos of the children with awards and achievements that we can share with the class. We also love to see pictures of what you have been up to with Pudding and Comet, the Reading Puppies.

Please note: private Dojo messages will be responded to within 48 hours so please contact the school office for any urgent/going home messages. 

This Term our topic is​

'Who are Ernest and Mary Stevens?'

This is our HISTORY and GEOGRAPHY topic. This topic will focus on historical events, people and places in our local area. We will begin by identifying who these people are and why they are significant to us as residents in Stourbridge. We will then discuss and explore historical events that have happened within Mary Stevens Park, including visits from Her Majesty the Queen AND Prince William.  

In addition to this historical approach, we shall also explore our local area geographically. We shall look at and explore numerous maps, to identify landmarks and basic human and physical features. We shall engage in simple fieldwork and create a simple map including a key with symbols.  

English

Story writing

In English this term we are focusing on fairytale story writing. We will first familiarise ourselves with well-known fairytales and the characteristics of traditional tales. 

This term we will focus heavily on phonic application, applying capital letters, full stops and finger spaces. We will then progress to understanding and using question marks, adjectives and joining clauses using ‘and’.  

Maths

We will continue to use practical equipment in maths to develop our understanding before moving on to pictorial and abstract representation.

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  In Maths this half term we will be focusing on

- Fractions, during these lessons we will be learning about halves and quarters. We we think about both, halving and quartering objects and amounts. 

- Position and direction, during these lessons we shall learn how to describe turns i.e. half turn, full turn. We will also be focusing on using language such as left, right, above, below, forwards and backwards.

- Ordinal numbers

Science

Our Science topic this half term will be: Plants

We will:

- Identify what a plant is and what the different parts of a plant are

- identify how we can grow plants and what plants NEED to survive

- learn which plants we eat and what part is edible

- learn all about common trees and how we can identify the differences

RE

In RE this half term, we will be asking the question:

How is God loving and kind?

Outcomes:   

- Identify and correctly sequence the main events in “The parable of the Good Samaritan”, 

 - Identify a likely meaning or message that “The parable of the Good Samaritan” might be expressing including that Jesus taught that people have a responsibility to be kind to others and that this view is consistent with words attributed to Jesus in particular, “treat others as you would want to be treated” (Luke 6:31).   

- Identify and name some significant beliefs that most Christians hold about God including that there is only one God and that God created the universe.  

- Share their thoughts and views about the meaning or message Jesus was expressing when he told the parable of the Good Samaritan and be encouraged to give a reason or reasons to support their view