WELCOME TO Swallow Class

Years 1 & 2

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Teachers: Miss Miller (Monday and Wednesday am, Tuesday, Thursday and Friday all day) and Miss Lake (Monday pm and Wednesday pm)

 

Our Topics for the Summer Term:

· Science: Plants, Materials and Magnets

· Geography: The UK

· History: The Tudors

· ICT: Computing systems and networks 1: What is a computer? Programming 1 and Online Safety

 

Please see the below long term plan for Swallow Class:

Swallow long term plan 

 

Homework:

Reading:

The children are expected to read with an adult for 10/15 minutes each day. Please support your child by listening to them read, asking questions about the text and helping children use their phonic skills to decode any unfamiliar words.

Maths:

Homework will be set on a Friday and is due back on the following Wednesday. This will be set on Mathletics. Please continue to focus on having instant recall of addition and subtraction facts within 10 and 20. In addition to this Year 2 children will be working on learning multiplication and division facts for the 2 times table, then the 5, 10 and 3 times tables. We also ask you regularly practise addition/ subtraction facts and multiplication/ division facts using -The White Rose 1 minute maths App.

Phonics/ Spellings:

Spelling homework will be handed out on a Tuesday and is due in on a fortnightly basis but it is always on a Monday.

The children are expected to work between 5- 10 minutes every day on their Phonics/ spellings throughout the fortnight.

Spelling Letter

Spelling Homework Template

Spelling Homework Examples

 

Reading:

The children are expected to read with an adult for 10 minutes each day. Please support your child by listening to them read, asking questions about the text and helping children use their phonic skills to decode  any unfamiliar words. 

 

Topic:

Children are welcome to complete extra home learning based on our topic.

 

P.E. days:

Our PE days are Tuesdays and Thursdays- please ensure that your children come into school wearing their PE kits on these days.

Tuesday P.E:

• Games (outside)

Thursday:

• Gymnastics (indoor)

 

 

Link to Safeguarding resources for parents from the NSPCC.

Link to Mathletics

Link to TT Rockstars

Link to  Spelling Activities