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Branston Church of England Infant Academy
'The Best We Can Be'
Hedgehog Class Year Two
Welcome to Hedgehog Class.
Hedgehog Class is our Year 2 Class.
Class Teacher - Mrs Savage
Teaching Assistants - Mrs Hutton, Mrs Stephenson and Mrs Macdonald
We would like to warmly welcome you to Hedgehog Class. On our web page, you will find information about our class as well as all of our super learning.
Important Information
Reading
Reading is at the core of our learning at Branston Church of England Infant Academy. Throughout our school we promote a love of reading that will last a lifetime. Whether it be reading our class story to the whole class, the children reading to an adult or the children reading to each other, we recognise the importance of taking pleasure from a story and sharing that with our friends. Please fill in your child's Reading Record to record what they have read. We love to hear about your child's amazing reading!!
Homework
Homework will be set at the beginning of the term. There will be 9 activities for you to choose from: 3 English tasks, 3 Maths tasks and 3 topic tasks. Please choose 1 activity each week. Homework books are due in each week on Monday and will be returned to your child on Wednesday.
PE
Our PE days are Tuesday and Thursday. Please can all children arrive in school wearing their PE kit on these days.
Magnificent Mexico
Our topic this term is Magnificent Mexico. The children will be learning about this wonderful country and where it is located in the world. They will begin by revising the names of the world’s seven continents and five oceans, and be able to locate them on a world map or atlas. The children will also compare Branston to a village in Mexico by exploring the key human and physical geographical features of both places.
The big question that we will be exploring this term is:
Where in the world is Mexico?
Our Magnificent Mexico topic is reflected in our English lessons. The children will be delving into books that are rich in Mexican culture to fuel their imagination to write our own versions of Mexican inspired poems and non-chronological reports about one of the country’s best known artists, Frida Kahlo. In Maths, we will begin the term by exploring height and length before learning about scales and capacity.
The children will be learning about animals including humans in their Science lessons. The children will think about what animals need to survive as well as exploring different habitats. Through our Music lessons, the children will be exploring improvisation: they will work with partners to improvise simple 'question and answer' phrases, to be sung and played on untuned percussion, creating a musical conversation.
The children will created a tasty fruit salad in Design and Technology. They will learn where different foods come from, food groups and the importance of eating a healthy, balanced diet.
In Computing lessons, we will be programming animations. The children will learn what algorithms are and how they are implemented as well as create and debug simple programs. At the beginning of each Computer lesson, we discuss safety and how to be safe online.
This term, in our PE lessons, we will be focusing on developing striking and fielding skills. The children will practise their throwing, catching, and batting skills in order to take part in simple striking and fielding games with their class.
Our topic in RE is ‘Thankfulness. The children will be thinking about and exploring the big question:
- What different things and times do we associate with saying thank you?
- How do religious and non-religious people say thank you?
The children will learn about the importance of showing gratitude in Christianity and the different ways which Christians say thank you to God. The children will learn why Christians celebrate harvest and how this festival is celebrated around the world.
Our School Value
Our school value this term is perseverance. Through our Collective Worships, we will explore what it means to demonstrate perseverance even when something is a little bit tricky. Perseverance is a key life skill and is needed in many situations or tasks. Through lots of wonderful picture books, we will explore 'Growth Mindset' and how it is very important not to limit ourselves in what we can believe that we could do. Let us always aim to be the very best that we can be - and perseverance is a value that we will need to show everyday in order to be that.
"Be strong and courageous for the Lord your God is with you wherever you go." - Joshua 1:9
“It always seems impossible until it is done.” – Nelson Mandela
"Believe you can and you are half way there." - Theodore Roosevelt