Teachers – Miss Laing
Summer 1 Curriculum Map
Dear Class 2 Families,
Happy New Year! I hope you have had a restful, magical Christmas break. Now we’ve been in Class 2 for a whole term, we are entirely settled and making excellent progress. Your children make us proud every day through showing kindness and love of learning in everything they do!
As you may have heard, our topic this term is ‘Cold Thing’. To get us excited for our new learning, we had an Iceland Day. We began with a plane ride into the snowy country, felt a block of ice as well as the heat from hand warmers! We learnt about thermals and suitable shoes to keep us warm. We wrote messages in artificial snow and held a hot water bottle. The children were introduced to Icelandic Krona and were shocked to see something that looked like a £100 coin. The children were entirely engrossed in the active volcano in Iceland and enjoyed learning about the tectonic plates. Finally, we made beautiful northern light chalk pastel paintings and ate Icelandic chocolate as our afternoon snack – What a wonderful day we had!
I’d like to thank families for the positive feedback we have received after our Iceland Day!
I really appreciate it.
Although most routines remain the same, here are a few changes for the first half of the spring term.
PE Days
Our PE days are Monday and Friday. On Mondays, a specialist dance teacher will be teaching us dances based on the different types of weather and how we can show this through movement and dance. On Fridays, we will be doing gymnastics with Mr Tyrrell.
Homework
As of this week, spelling homework will be sent out every Thursday. There will be 5 words a week from the statutory spelling list of their year group. This means, by the end of the year they are expected to know these spellings. Our early morning work every day is spelling so we practise them at school too! Please return their homework books on the following Tuesday. As always, reading continues to be super important so please read with your children as often as possible.
RWI Books
We will continue to change RWI books on Monday in line with their guided reading book we are reading together in school. This is also uploaded to Oxford Owl as an additional book if your child enjoys reading both at home! Ensure RWI books are returned to school every Monday so they don’t get lost. They cost the school lots of money to replace.
Staffing
Miss Laing will teach Class 2 Monday to Thursday.
Mr Baxter will teacher Class 2 on Fridays.
Mrs Martin is sadly no longer with us and has begun a new venture in teaching her favourite language… Spanish,
However, we have the wonderful Mrs Hamer with us every morning instead!
If you have any questions or would like to arrange a meeting, please email me. Alternatively, if you need to pass on a small message, I’m available on the gate Monday – Thursday and Mr Baxter will be happy to pass on any messages on Friday!
Thanks again for your continued support.
Kind Regards,
Miss Laing and Mr Baxter.