Kingfisher Class

Hello everyone! We've come to our final term of the school year and it is amazing that we are almost at the summer holidays! It has been a fantastic year and were going to end it with some really fun lessons and work this term.

In English we will be using the knowledge and ideas we created using The Secret of Black Rock to write our own nonfiction entry for the Big Book of Blue. After that we will be using our narrative and fairytale knowledge to write our own alternative story based The Last Wolf by Mini Grey.

In Maths the Y1s will be continuing our work on multiplication before moving onto looking at place value to 100. The Y2s will be finish up with our work on fractions and will then move onto position and direction, and time. Both year groups will be looking at money together.

In Science we will be looking at allotments, including growing plants and studying minibeasts that are present in our gardens. We will also be travelling to Wandlebury to look at these two subjects in action!

In History we will be studying the early human attempts at flight, including the Wright brothers' first flight.

In RWE we will be looking at Islam and the depictions of Allah as compassionate and merciful by Muslims. We will focus on how Ramadan and Eid reflect these values within Islam.

In DT we will be learning about the safe preparation of vegetables and creating our own meal using these techniques.

In Music we will be looking at different instruments and understanding how they are used to create pieces of music.

In Computing we will be learning to recognise, sort, use, and present data in different ways, using both technology and physical means.

In PE we will be learning about the sports and cricket and swimming and developing the childrens' skills in both.

This term our PE days will be on Tuesday and Thursday. 

On these days children should come into school wearing their PE kits. As a reminder, this should be a white t-shirt, black or navy shorts/joggers (weather dependent), and their school sweatshirt or fleece. Long hair should be tied back, and earrings should be covered or removed. Please do not send your child to school in non-school uniform items on PE days, such as hoodies or other sportswear from clubs.

On the first Wednesday of each month, with the odd exception, we would like to invite parents, carers or any family member dropping off a Kingfisher Class child to come into class before registration and sit alongside them for a few minutes.  'Welcome Wednesday' is an opportunity to share in the children's work, read with them, or simply discuss the current learning summarised on our classroom working walls.  We hope this will become a precious and rewarding 10 minutes for the whole school community to get together regularly in class. We hope to see you there!

Please do look at the General Information page where you will find a summary of this half term's learning, an example timetable and lots of other useful information. 

Staff in Kingfisher class:

Mr Burn- Monday to Friday

Mrs Bowes- Monday to Thursday