Branston Church of England Infant Academy
'The Best We Can Be'
Welcome to Squirrel Class!
Teacher: Mrs Sharpe
Support Staff: Mrs Andrew and Mrs Wilson
Key Information
Reading
Reading is a core aspect of the school curriculum. We ask that our children read to an adult at home regularly each week. Please record your child’s daily reading in their reading diary so that we can see how they are getting on. When they have read their book twice, then please encourage them to put it in the basket so that it can be changed.
It is important for the children to bring in their reading folder each day so that they are able to read to an adult in school.
PE
Tuesday with Mrs Sharpe
Thursday with our PE Coach
Children are welcome to come to school on these days wearing their school PE kit. Please make sure that jumpers have been labelled with their names.
Homework
Each term there will be 9 activities (3 Maths, 3 English and 3 Topic based activities) to choose from. We would like your child to complete one activity each week. By providing a range of tasks, we hope that you will be able to pick something each week which your child will find engaging as well as at the same time supporting their learning. Homework books are to be handed in on a Monday each week and will be returned to your child on a Wednesday. Please could all homework be completed in pencil. We really do look forward to looking at the children's homework each week.
Our Church School Value
This term our core value is
Term Two
Our topic this term is - UK Explorers
The Big Question Year – What makes London our capital city?
Key vocabulary
Building on our previous map work we will be completing the heritage walk around Branston to find out as much information as we can. We will then use maps and atlases to find out about the different parts of the United Kingdom. Finishing our geography work in London and finding out what makes it our capital city. In science Year Ones will be finding out about different types of animals and Year Two will be thinking about what the characteristics of something that is alive are and what we need to survive. In Design Technology we will exploring wheels and designing and making a London bus.
In English we will be reading The Snail and the Whale by Julia Donaldson and poems by Shirley Hughes.
The topics we will be covering in Maths are: Addition, Subtraction, place value and Shape.
So much to look forward to this term. I can’t wait to get started!