Google Services
Search
Search
Translate
Translate
Interactive Bar
Branston Church of England Infant Academy
'The Best We Can Be'
Squirrel Class Year One & Two
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 Six
Our topic this term is - Marvellous Minibeasts!
Year 1 – What is a minibeast and are they all herbivores?
Year 2 – How does a minibeasts habitat support its food chain?
Key vocabulary Year One - Minibeast, habitat, herbivore, carnivore, omnivore, antenna, thorax, abdomen, vertebrate and invertebrate.
Key vocabulary Year Two – Micro-habitat, producer, predator, prey, consumer, arachnids, gastropods, isopods, myriapods and annelids.
We use the big question as a focus for our planning each lesson, so that the children can gain information to help them to answer it throughout the term. In Science children will be observing and classifying minibeasts. In Year One we will be learning about herbivores, omnivores and carnivores and in Year Two about microhabitats and food chains. In Art our lessons we will be learning about the work of William De Morgan. And children will make their own minibeast tiles. In History, the children will be exploring the life of David Attenborough. In RE children will continue to explore the topic of ‘Thankfulness’ and how people of the Jewish faith thank God.
In Maths children will be learning new vocabulary to describe position and direction, how to tell the time to the hour, half past and quarter to and quarter past and measuring in different units.
In English children will be exploring The Big Book of Bugs by Yuval Zomer and Matisse’s Magical Trail by Tom Hopgood and Sam Boughton. The children will be using these texts to write a non– chronological reports and stories.
So much to look forward to this term. I can’t wait to get started!