Here is a class charter that the members of Hawthorn created together. They discussed the classroom and school and how the environments should be safe and happy places, and they then talked about different ways that we could work together to make this happen. For each idea, the children then explained their answers and for some extended them. Some answers even needed extra bits noting. For example, we know that we don’t run in class, but if it is P.E. then that is okay.

Once we had discussed, explained and agreed to the new rules, the class then signed their names to say that they would try their hardest to follow them. We are a team, so we also agreed to help each other remember the rules if we ever noticed that someone had forgotten one of them.

Our Weekly Timetable

We do P.E. twice a week: Wednesday and Thursday. The children need their kit in school for this. If they do not have their kit then they miss a chunk of their learning.

Kit:

• Black shorts or jogging bottoms
• A white t-shirt
• Appropriate footwear
• No earrings – silicone ones can be worn

The children should bring a full water bottle in each day. These can be topped up in class.

Reading books will be changed and sent home each Wednesday. The book sent home should have been read at least three times by the child. This is a chance for them to build their fluency with a text that is familiar to them.

Spellings/sounds will be sent home each Friday. These can be recorded in different ways. We have provided a green book for this purpose, but it does not have to be done in these.

Homework will be set every two weeks. This should lend itself to pre-teaching or post-teaching some of the content that will be taught over the half term.

Important things to note:

PE days are Wednesday and Thursday. Kit is to be kept in school for the whole half term.

Phonics and Reading

We follow the Little Wandle scheme. We read every day, and we run two phonics lessons each day. The first recaps on our known graphemes and words, and then we learn our new grapheme of the day. This knowledge is then tested with the introduction of new words. Our second phonics lesson secures this knowledge by repeating our learning, but at a faster pace.

Literacy

In literacy we will focus on two texts. The first being Jack and the Beanstalk. The second book will be Katie in London. These books have curriculuar links to our science learning (plants and growth) and also to our geography work (the UK).

We will be using our phonics knowledge in our writing as well as ensuring we are using our capital letters, full stops and finger spaces. We will go over nouns, verbs and adjectives, and how these will ensure our writing is interesting and makes sense.

We will be adding new concepts into our writing. We will begin to use question marks in our work, and we will also be developing our dictated sentence writing skills, alongside our revision and editing skills.

Maths

In maths we follow the White rose scheme of work. This term we will be focussing on place value within 20 before moving onto addition and subtraction within 20.

Alongside the scheme we will also teach Mastering Number. This is to assist with fluency and the skill of subitising. We use concrete resources such as Reknreks to support with learning.

Computing

The focus in computing is on creating media. We will do this through digital writing.

Geography

In geography, we will be looking at the UK. We will find it on maps, focus on which countries make up the UK, and we will also find out some of the geographical and human features that are present within the UK.

Science

In science, we will spend the first couple of weeks looking at the season Spring. We will discuss the changes that comes with spring and we will compare it to the seasons which have preceded it.

Following this, we will change our focus to lifecycles and plants.

PSHE

In PSHE, the topic will be: Keeping myself safe. This area will cover:

• How our feelings can keep us safe – including online safety
• Safe and unsafe touches
• Medicine Safety
• Getting help

Physical Education

In PE, we will have two different focuses: fitness and dance. The lessons will build up the skills that the children need in these areas.

Please remember that we have PE on a Wednesday and Thursday. The children can keep their kits in school for the entire half term.

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 Mr Taylor