Welcome to Fox Class!

WELCOME TO FOX CLASS (YEARS 2,3 & 4)

Welcome to the Spring Term. 

Staff in our class:

Miss Mayne - Class Teacher

Mrs. Cox - Teaching Assistant

Mrs. Lawrence - Teaching Assistant (Monday-Wednesday)

Mrs. Nicholls - Teaching Assistant (Thursday-Friday)

OUR TOPIC FOR THE SUMMER TERM 1 IS:

How does your garden grow?

In Science this term we will be learning all about flowers fruits and seeds. We will be exploring the part that flowers play in the life cycle of flowering plants , including pollination, seed formation and seed dispersal.

In DT this term we will be learning about food and nutrition. We will learn about foods that are grown in this country and those that come from different regions and climates around the world.

We will look at food hygiene and skills needed to create our own pasta or fruit salad.

In PSHE the unit, entitled It’s My Body, explores the choices children can make about looking after their bodies. The lessons look at making safer choices about their bodies, sleep and exercise, diet, cleanliness and substances. Children will learn facts about each of these areas and learn strategies on how to manage them. The message of choice and consent runs through the unit and children are encouraged to get help from trusted adults when necessary.

In R.E we will be learning about Gospel. We will Identify this as part of a ‘Gospel’, which tells the story of the life and teaching of Jesus. We will make clear links between the calling of the first disciples and how Christians today try to follow Jesus and be ‘fishers of people’. We can offer suggestions about what Jesus’ actions towards the leper might mean for a Christian.

In Topic this term our key question is: Where our food comes from, how has it changed?

To answer this question we will be going on the field to food trip and we will be learning about how our land is  used across the UK to produce food and how this has changed over time.

In Math's, Year 2 will be learning all about fractions followed by time. 

Year 3 will be learning about mass and capacity followed by fractions and money.

Year 4 will be learning about decimals followed by more on decimals and then money.

In English we will be reading Cloud Tea Monkeys. This three-week Writing Root begins with the arrival of a Royal Tea –Taster in class seeking apprentice tea-tasters. The children experience an immersive session where they smell and taste a range of different teas before creating descriptive statements to describe a tea. A basket is then delivered and inside is a magical and moving story about Cloud Tea and how monkeys save a young girl and her mother. As the text is read, the children are exposed to range of language activities to stimulate grammatical development and reading comprehension skills. The children then write letters of thanks to the monkeys. Using the authors’ note as further stimulus, children research, plan and then write a non-chronological report on tea, the tea-trade and traditions relating to tea.

We will also be writing a recount about our school trip.