Homework
Please encourage your child to sit down with you on a regular basis to go
through their homework.
Year 1 children – Spellings and reading book (10 minutes a day)
Year 2 children - Spellings and reading book (20 minutes a day) and a
weekly piece of written or research homework which will be given on a
Friday and be expected in on the following Wednesday. This will be given
in their homework books which will be kept in their reading folders. Each
week the children will receive a sticker for their completed work and once
3 stickers have been earned they will receive a homework certificate.
LAVANT C.E. PRIMARY SCHOOL
CURRICULUM OUTLINE
Robin Reading Challenge - To help encourage the children with regular
reading we have a reading challenge set out on our class window. Every
time the children are heard read individually either at home or at school
they can progress along the dinosaur trail. When they reach a landmark
point they earn a special sticker and once they reach Jurassic Park they
earn themselves a little model dinosaur! Please could you help us to
facilitate their journeys by signing their reading record books when you
have heard them read at home!
Finally, just a few reminders:
Show and Tell - this where we allow the children to bring in a toy or an
item of interest that they would like to share with the other children.
Please could we ask that Show and Tell only comes into school on a
Friday
Please wash and return water bottles every Monday.
Please read the class noticeboards regularly to keep up to date and
continue to check parent mail weekly – please make sure it is not going
to your spam box! Lots of important up to date information for the
following week is found there. These are also on display in our
classrooms and copies are available from the office.
Please also note that all weekly letters are available to read on the school
website www.lavant.w-sussex.sch.uk
Please continue to keep us informed if someone else is collecting your
child from school.
Please ensure all clothes are clearly named.
Thank you for all your support
ROBIN CLASS
Autumn TERM 2016
Welcome back to the new school year!
Tuesday 6th September
Friday 16th December
TERM DATES:
begins:
ends:
HALF TERM:
Monday 24th – Friday 28th October
INSET DAY:
Monday 31st October
Weekly Drop Ins: Tuesday
Key Stage Assembly: Thursday 20th October 9.10am
We have lots of exciting things planned. Our topic for this half term is
Dinosaur Dinners! and next half term is Let’s Celebrate!
Literacy
The children will continue to follow our phonics programme.
They will also experience a range of fiction, non-fiction and poems
linked to their topic work. These will include stories with recurring
literary language which can be used as a basis for the children’s own
writing, shape poems and non-fiction texts which display instruction and
report writing. Texts that will be used will include: Rotten and Rascal,
The Fossil Girl and Monster Stones. The children will have weekly Group
Reading lessons as well as individual reading each week.
Maths
In maths Year 1 and Year 2 children will be covering the following areas :
Number and Place Value
Sequencing
Number facts
Doubling and halving
Addition and subtraction
Money
Fractions
Shape
Time
Length
Multiplication and division
Science
In Science lessons children will be learning all about carnivores,
omnivores and herbivores. We will also be investigating plants that are
alive and no longer alive. We will also be developing our investigational
skills.
Art
The Year 1 children will be looking at colour, pattern and shape as they
develop observational drawing skills and printing techniques representing
aspects of dinosaurs and decorating our Sukkah.
In Year 2 the children will be exploring colour-mixing, particularly
focussing on tints and shades. They will be looking at the work of the
artist Wassily Kandinsky and create their own dinosaur pictures in this
style.
Computing
In computing the children will be searching for dinosaur pictures on the
Internet. They will learn the skills of copying, pasting and resizing
pictures. They will think about different ways of sorting and create their
own dinosaur fact page.
History/Geography
We will be finding out about when dinosaurs lived. We will find out the
names of the different oceans and continents and relate this to where
different dinosaurs lived. They will also learn about maps, symbols and
keys, using this knowledge to create their own dinosaur island.
Music
In music this term the children will be learning to use their voices
expressively, learning dinosaur rhymes and songs. They will experiment
with tuned and unturned percussion to create sounds to represent
different dinosaurs. They will also be exploring pitch. They will learn
what pitch is, know how to control it, how to respond to changes in
pitch and how to control the pitch of their voices. They will also use
some percussion instruments that produce different pitches and create
a simple tune using these.
PSCHE
In PSHCE we will talk about building a class community and what
makes us all happy in class. We will also focus upon different feelings
that we may encounter.
The children will be settling into their new routine, getting to know the
new Reception children, learning about how everyone is special and
unique, beginning to recognise and consider strategies for dealing with
a variety of emotions.
Religious Education
In RE this half term the children will be finding out about how Christians
celebrate harvest and looking at some aspects of Judaism; how they
celebrate Shabbat and Sukkot, how they show they are thankful at
Harvest time and also about Moses as a leader. Next half term the
children will be looking at various celebrations/festivals across different
religions such as Divali, Christmas and Hanukkah.
Physical Education
Please could the children have their PE kit in school all week, as PE days
may be liable to change due to other events. They will all need plimsolls
or trainers, shorts and T shirt and possibly a track suit for the colder
weather. Please may we remind you that if your child has their ears
pierced, that earrings should either be removed for that session or
covered with micro pore tape.
This term the children will be developing a dance based on our topic
about Dinosaurs which we are hoping to share with you in our Key
Stage assembly. In games lessons we will be exploring team games
using throwing and kicking skills. After half term the children will have
the opportunity to work with South Coast Sports.