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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.
Amazing Africa
Our topic this term is Amazing Africa! The children will be learning about the African continent: they will be comparing specific places in Africa with Branston, exploring the human and physical geographical features and climate. The Big Question which we will be focusing on this term is:
Is it ever cold in Africa?
Our Amazing Africa topic is reflected in our English lessons. We will be delving into African culture through a variety of fiction and non-fiction texts so that children can develop an understanding of life in Africa through a range of sources.
In our Science lessons, the children will be learning about animals including humans. They will be learning about what animals need to survive as well as exploring different habitats.
In Maths, our topic at the beginning of term mass, capacity and temperature before we move on to explore fractions. The children will be learning how to recognise and find half, quarter and third of objects, shapes, and quantities. They will also learn about the equivalence of two quarters and one half, as well as learning to recognise three-quarters.
Through our Music lessons, the children will develop their learning of improvisation. They will work with partners to improvise simple 'question and answer' phrases, to be both sung and played on untuned percussion, creating a musical conversation. The children will create a replica ‘Kente Cloth’ using mixed media of printing and weaving during their Art lessons. In Computing, they will program quizzes using their programming skills to create and debug simple programs.
This term, in our PE lessons, we will be focusing on team games especially developing striking and fielding skills.
Our topic in RE poses the question: What is my view of the world? The children will be introduced to the idea that ‘no-one stands nowhere’. We will explore the ways in which context affects our ways of seeing and understanding the world, each other and ourselves. Through the lessons, the children will learn about the concepts of ‘worldview’, ‘empathy’ and ‘context’. They will explore what it means to be part of an ‘organised’ worldview’ and what it means to have an ‘individual worldview’.
Our School Value
Our school value this term is forgiveness. Through our Collective Worships, we will be exploring what it means to forgive and understand why it is important to forgive people if they have upset us in some way. We will talk about how everyone makes mistakes and these mistakes can hurt others, or even ourselves. Then we need to forgive and accept someone’s apology. This way can forgive and make a fresh start in order to move forward.
We will be exploring the Bible story of Moses receiving the 10 commandments from God. After leading the Israelites out of Egypt, Moses climbed Mount Sinai, which was covered in smoke, thunder, and lightning. There, God gave Moses two stone tablets inscribed with the Ten Commandments, offering them as special rules to help His people live with love, kindness, and respect.