Kingfisher Class

Hello everyone and welcome to the second half of our term! I hope everyone had a lovely week away and that there were some fantastic costumes on show this weekend! We have an exciting and busy couple of weeks leading up to the winter break and I hope everyone is looking forward to getting started!

As always remember to check the Home Learning page for this term's home learning projects. We will do our presentations in the final two weeks of the term. We had a lot of really fantastic presentations at the end of the half term so I am excited to see what everyone chooses this one! There is also useful advice and resources for extra practice you can do at home to help support your child's learning.

 

Our topics for this year

In English, we are starting out by looking at the experiences of refugees in literature for our refugee week. After that we will move onto doing some descriptive writing using our expanded noun phrases and verbs. For the final unit of the half term we will work on creating an instruction text.

In Maths, we are continuing our work last term on adding and subtracting within 100. We will continue working on our understanding of reasoning and word problems and how to apply our maths to these questions. The students will also be working on their knowledge of shapes and angles.

In Science, we are lstudying the human lifecycle and what humans need to survive and be healthy. For this we will be examining how humans grow throughout their lives, as well as the need for exercise and a good diet.

In RWE, we reviewing the story of the incarnation from last year and digging deeper into how Christians celebrate the nativity and what values are on display in this celebration.

In DT we are looking at the mechanisms of slides and levers and how we can design our own to use in school. We will work on making holiday and Christmas cards utilising these mechanisms at the end of the term. 

In Music, we are using our voices and instruments to create sound patterns and produce our own piece of music. We will also be learning to discuss different pieces of music and incorporate outside ideas into our own work.

In Computing, we are developing our understanding of what a computer is and how they are used in our day to day lives.

In PE, we are working on developing our knowledge of attacking and defending using different games as well as learning yoga moves to develop our balance and mobility skills.

  

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

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 Papworth - Tuesday                                                                                                                        

Mrs Nicklin - Wednesday                                                                                                                             

Mr Thompson - Wednesday

Mrs Kim - Tuesday, Thursday