Seasonal Homework Activity

Talking project: Happy new year! We welcome in the New Year for 2025 this holiday. Later this month the children will also be celebrating the Lunar New Year on January 29^th. Both events are marked by thinking about new goals and the good things to come. At home, we would like you to discuss the topic ‘out with the old and in with the new’.

Think about answering the following questions:

What have we been grateful for this year?

What have we been proud of this year?

What would we like to achieve over the next year?

Is there anything we would like to change?

Be creative with how you wish to present this. It could be a poster, or a piece of writing, or an interview of different people’s responses in your home or wider family. 

Some ideas are pictured below:

Please return your creations to school on Tuesday 7^th January so that we can display them, they may also be included in our personal development assemblies this half term.

 

Have a great day, see you all tomorrow and we look forward to hearing about your fun in the snow!😊

Welcome to 2 Beech Class!

 Hi everyone! Welcome to the class page for 2 Beech. 

Here you will find all the important information you need about our school day and you can also take a look at some of the amazing things we are learning about.

In our class we are always respectful, aspirational and resilient! 

 

Staff

  The class teacher in 2 Beech is Miss Reaney.

We are also supported by Miss Bailey in the mornings and Miss Page on a Thursday and Friday afternoon. 

Important Information

  Have a look at our weekly timetable.

                                       

 

 P.E. will be on Tuesday and Wednesday.

On P.E. days we need to come to school in our P.E. kits. 

Please make sure all items are clearly labelled with the children's names. 

                                               

Reading Books

We need to bring our reading books into school every day and take it home with us every night. We will read to an adult at least twice a week in school and should try to read to ourselves; to our grown ups or to our siblings at least three times a week at home. You should log your reading on Boom Reader so your teacher can see your reading and reward you for it. 

 

Key Dates

                 

This half term we will be learning ....

English

    

In English, we will be reading 'The Gunpowder Plot' by Rob Lloyd Jones. 

 

'On November 4th 1606, a traitor was caught beneath the Houses of Parliament with a plot to kill the king. ' 

 

Guided Reading

As part of our English curriculum, we will practise Guided Reading or Phonics every day.  This half term we will be reading the book 'The Bakers Boy And The Great Fire Of London ' by Tom and Tony Bradman.

 'When Will Farriner wakes to the sound of crackling flames and the smell of smoke, he knows something is terribly wrong! As his family escape the flames engulfing their bakery, Will realises he must stop the fire from spreading. But what can be done before all of London goes up in smoke?'

 

 Phonics

We use a teaching programme called Read Write Inc. (RWI) to teach our children to read and spell.  Our friend Fred will be helping us to learn lots of new sounds. He is a frog who can only speak in sounds, and we call this Fred Talk.  Fred helps the children blend sounds to read each word. Children also learn to read red words on sight. Red words are words that cannot be segmented or blended.

 

Maths

In Maths we will be focusing on Shape and Money.

We will practise identifying and recognising 2D and 3D shapes and practice counting money in pounds and pence. 

We will also continue to practise counting in steps of 2, 5, and 10. 

 

Science

Our Science topic this half term is 'Living things and their habitats'.

n this unit, we will learn about living things and their habitats. We will start by exploring whether things are living, dead, or have never been alive. Next, we will investigate microhabitats and larger habitats, identifying some of the animals that live there.

 

History and Geography

 Our topic this half-term is 'Fire! Fire! '. 

In history, we will learn about The Gunpowder Plot and the Great Fire of London. We will explore what life was like in 17th century London compared to London now, describe the key events and place the events onto a timeline.

In Geography, we are are exploring the UK by learning about its countries, capitals, seas, human and physical features, and comparing urban and rural areas like London, Chickenly, and Yorkshire. 

 

 PE

      

Our PE lessons will be on a Tuesday and Wednesday.

Our unit this half-term will be Ball skills and Gymnastics. 

RE

This half-term we will be exploring the theme of prayer.  We will look at stories such as Daniel in the Lion's Den, to explore the key question of,  'How and why do people pray?'

 

PSHE

 During this half-term we will be continue looking at the new scheme of learning called, 'My Happy Mind'.

We will explore themes such as safety, relationships and respect. 

 

Music

This half term our theme will be - On this Island

We will learn and perform British folk songs, exploring both countryside and city themes, while creating symbols to represent sounds and developing their own musical compositions..

 

Author Focus

 Every half term, we will have an author focus. We will learn about lots of different authors and their writing style.

Our author focus for this half-term is Enid Blyton

Enid Mary Blyton was an English children's writer, whose books have been worldwide bestsellers since the 1930s, selling more than 600 million copies. Her books are still enormously popular and have been translated into ninety languages. As of June 2019, Blyton held 4th place for the most translated author.

Links to try at home

 

Topmarks is full of Maths games to support further learning at home.
Topmarks

Read, Write, Inc is our phonics scheme and here is guidance for parents.

read, write, inc guide for parents

Phonics Play will support identifying sounds and segmenting/blending them to support the children with their reading. 
PhonicsPlay

Oxford owl has lots of free reading books so that your children can read you a story.
Oxford Owl Books

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