Southrop Church of England Primary School
Southrop, Lechlade, Glos. GL7 3NU.
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Head Teacher: Mr A D Brown
www.southrop.gloucs.sch.uk
E-Mail: [email protected]
4th May 2017
Dear Parents
Our topic this term is Percy the Park Keeper.
In English, the children will be looking at stories written by Nick Butterworth. They will be retelling
them and writing their own versions of a Percy the Park Keeper story. The children will looking at
letter writing and will start off by looking at the Dear Zoo book and then writing letters to a park
keeper instead. Finally they will be looking at poetry based on the park.
In Mathematics the children will be looking at reading numbers and place value and looking at
counting patterns including counting in halves and quarters. They will half and quarter small numbers
too. They then move onto multiplication (lot of) and division (sharing). In their addition and
subtraction work they will be adding or subtracting numbers bigger than 10 and partitioning numbers
to make this easier for them. The children will be recognising features of 3 D shapes and looking at
the nets of these shapes. They will be telling the time to the nearest half hour and quarter hour.
In Science the children will learn about what makes us alive! We will be looking at the characteristics
of something that is alive, how habitats can help us and how we can keep a plant alive. The children
will be growing a range of plants and vegetables.
In PSHCE the children will be considering Friendship. The will be considering what is a friend and
how they can be a good friend to everyone.
In Geography and History the children will be looking at parks. They will be learning that a park is not
just a playground! We will be visiting the playground in Southrop and Pitville Park in Cheltenham.
The children will be comparing the features of the two. They will be using maps to find the parks.
They will be learning about why parks were created and how they have changed though history and
finally they will be creating their own map of a park that Percy will have to look after in the future.
In D&T the children are making scarecrows. Percy has problems with rooks in one of his stories and
he uses his old knitted clothes to make scarecrows to scare them away. The children will be
designing their own scarecrows and thinking of ways they can fix their materials together.
The children will be using clay in Art. They will be making the animals that Percy is friends with.
In PE the children are doing Gym and Games. Please can the children have their kits in school on
Monday and Friday each week? If they are staying to sports club please remember to have them in
school the next day. Also please can you make sure all kit, including daps are named, so that we
can ensure all the right kit goes into the correct bag.
We are going to use both the inside and outside role play areas this term. The inside area is going to
be a science laboratory. The children will be creating their own investigations as well as following
some experiments too. The outside area is Percy’s hut. If you have anything that you think will be
useful please could we borrow it for this term.
Finally, it is the summer term and I am hoping we will have some warm weather. All the children are
outside during the day so please can all children have a named sun hat in school, water proof coat in
school and a named water bottle each day. Please make sure the children have sun cream put on
before they come to school.
Yours sincerely
Miss M Davies
Infant Class Teacher