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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 and Mrs Wilson
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.
Seeds, Soil and Sunshine
Our topic this term is Seeds, Soil & Sunshine. The children will be investigating what plants need to grow, naming parts of plants as well as learning the name of a variety of common plants and trees. The Big Question which we will be focusing on this term is:
Do all plants need the same conditions to grow and stay healthy?
Key Vocabulary: bark, bud, bulb, branch, flower, fruit, leaf, petal, root, seed, stalk, stem, trunk, temperature, germination, nutrients.
Our Seeds, Soil & Sunshine topic is reflected in our English lessons. We will be delving into nature and plant themed books to fuel our imagination so that we can write poems and non-chronological reports. In Maths, we will begin the term by continuing to learn about multiplication and division and then delving into our measurement topic: length and height.
Through our Music lessons, the children will learn how to recognise different instruments from the orchestra and explore the sounds that they can make. In Computing, the children will be creating music using technology. This term, in our PE lessons, we will be focusing on gymnastics where the children will continue to work on their balance and agility, moving towards performing movements on and around apparatus. In Design Technology we will designing and making a rainbow salad: we will then evaluate our salad and enjoy tasting them together.
In RE, we will be exploring the question ‘Is it possible to speak to God?’ During this topic, the children will build on their understanding of the Muslim concept of God by considering how Muslims prayer to God. They will begin to ask philosophical questions about the idea of communicating with God in a variety of religions and explore some different ways in which religious people pray.
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.
We will be exploring the Bible story of Moses and the parting of the Red Sea. After leading the Israelites out of slavery in Egypt, Moses faced a trapped position at the edge of the Red Sea with Pharaoh’s army pursuing them. Following God's command, Moses stretched his staff over the water, which parted to create a dry path. The Israelites crossed safely, but the water returned to cover the pursuing Egyptian army. We will explore how Moses and the Israelites preserved during such challenging times and how they looked to God for help and reassurance.
"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