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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.
Marvellous Minibeasts
Our topic this term is Marvellous Minibeasts. The children will be learning about minibeast, their habitats and food chains.
The big question that we will be exploring this term is:
How does a minibeast habitat support its food chain?
Our Marvellous Minibeasts topic is reflected in our English lessons. The children will be delving into books that are feature a range of minibeast and non-chronological reports based on the book The Big Book of Bugs by Yuval Zomer. In Maths, we will begin the term by learning to tell the time to the nearest quarter of an hour.
The children will be performing their own concert in Music. The children have been singing throughout their whole school journey and will now use their voices expressively and creatively. They will play tuned and untuned instruments musically and perform confidently to an audience.
In Art, we will be expanding on their knowledge and skills of manipulating clay to create an intricate piece of artwork. The children will experiment with a range of techniques including joining. In Computing lessons, we will be making their own digital creation. The children will use technology purposefully to create, organise, store, manipulate and retrieve digital content
This term, in our PE lessons, the children will revisit and apply the skills learned earlier in the year. They will take part in competitive games and use the balance, and agility skills that they have developed throughout the year to take part in athletics lessons. This term we also have our annual Sports Day!
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 Judaism and the different ways which Jewish people say thank you to God. The children will learn why people of the Jewish faith celebrate Passover and Sukkot.
Our School Value
Our school value this term is honesty. Through our Collective Worships, we will be exploring what it means to be honest and understand why it is important that we must tell the truth. We will discuss the importance of being true to yourself and others, and that sincerity is also an important value to hold. We can show we are honest through our actions and our words. By being honest, it helps us to think clearly and moves us forwards in the correct direction.
"Dear children, let us not love with our words or speech, but with our actions and in truth" - 1 John 3:18
“Telling the truth and making someone cry is better than telling a lie and making someone smile” – Paolo Coelho