Class Teacher - Mrs D Clarkson.             

                                     Welcome to the Jellyfish class. 

Welcome back Jellyfish! We hope that you all had a wonderful summer holiday and are ready for an exciting new school term. I am Mrs Clarkson, and I will be your class teacher, our learning will be focused on the enquiry question: What were toys like in the life of our parents and grandparents?

PE will be on Wednesdays and Thursdays, please come to school in your PE kit on those days, and make sure that any earrings are either removed or covered with surgical tape or plasters. This term in PE, we will be learning a range of ball skills and football fundamental skills.

In English, we will start by focusing on nonfiction texts about toys from the past before exploring the story of ‘Dogger’ by Shirley Hughes, learning about the structure of the story and writing our own story about a lost toy.

In Maths we will be working on place value and number focusing on how number are constructed and developing their understanding of different representations of numbers. They will use these representations to show a number’s ‘10s’ and ‘1s’ and use this to help them compare and order as well as using part-whole models and place value grids to show their partitioning of numbers and use these to support their reasoning when comparing and ordering.

In art, we will be continuing our work on toys by developing our drawing and sketching skills using Jill Murphy and her teddy bear stories for inspiration, learning new techniques and exploring form.

In music we will be developing our skills through listening and appraising the teddy bears picnic and Coppelia and a toy symphony by Malcolm Arnold. RE will involve exploring Christianity to answer the question of What do Christians believe god is like?

In computing we will be working on our keyboard skills, saving and editing a document, we will be using our computing skills across the different areas of the curriculum.

In science we will be learning about materials and their properties. We will be focusing on this topic for the next two terms and will be learning and experimenting on the suitability of the material for the task it is used for.

Jellyfish team