Elm Class

Welcome to Elm Class!

Important Information:

PE sessions are scheduled for Thursday and Friday afternoons. All children are expected to arrive at school dressed in their PE kits on these days. Kindly ensure that your child is wearing the correct kit. PE kit, which can be viewed here.

Spellings will be tested on a Monday. The children will be tested on the Year 1 and 2 common exception words (below). These are the spellings that your child is expected to know by the end of the year. However, additional words may appear in the weekly spellings to aid the learning of spelling rules. Spellings will be tested at random so please practise them all throughout the year and we will be able to see the progress!

Reading is extremely important and serves as a doorway to the rest of the curriculum. Your child will receive either a phonics reading book or a colour band book to bring home to practise. Please attempt to read for at least 10 minutes a day with your child and encourage any other opportunities for reading for pleasure.

Come back to our class page regularly for updates.

In English…

This half term in English, we will be working on our report writing skills using the book ‘The Lost Species’.

The children will be consolidating their skills of descriptive writing. The children will be continuing to practise using conjunctions to develop their sentence structure and increase the level of detail in their work.

In Maths…

This half term in Maths we will be working on Fractions, Time and Statistics.

Both Year 1 and 2 children will also be continuously practising their operations – Year 1 (add and subtract) Year 2 (add, subtract, multiply and divide).

The children will continue to practise their 2s, 5s and 10s times tables daily.

In Science…

This half term in Science, we will be learning about living things and their habitats. We will be exploring and comparing the differences between things that are living, dead, and things that have never been alive.

In RE…

In this unit pupils will start to think about the term’s
secular and religious. Drawing from their knowledge from Foundation Stage, they will talk about the key events from the Christmas story in more detail. Pupils will find out about how Christmas is celebrated today and begin to consider which traditions are secular and which are religious. They will focus on religious artwork, saying how and why it helps Christians today to celebrate the key events from the story.

In History…

This term in History the children will study the unit “How Did We Learn to Fly?”.

In this unit, the children will identify important events in the past. Explain how a significant events, such as walking on the moon, has changed the lives of others. They will consider why flight travel has changed over time using a range of primary and secondary sources.