Team Venus 2024 - 2025
Mrs Durban
Miss Atherton
Welcome to Team Venus
2024
We hope that you had a fantastic christmas break and are refreshed and ready for another term as Team Venus. We are looking forward to having a fun Spring term full of exctiing learning.
This term our topic is called ''Come Fly With Me'
The children will be working hard to achieve their goals in all areas of the curriculum. Have a look at some of the things they will be learning!
Maths
In Maths, we will be learning about properties of shape, money, multiplication and division, length and height, mass, capacity and temperature.
English
In English this term we will be exploring the stories ‘Grandad’s Camper’ by Harry Woodgate and ‘My Name is Not Refugee’ by Kate Milner. These texts have so many opportunities for fantastic writing and getting the children using their imaginations and creativity. These stories have clear focuses which have clear links to our Learning Adventure project. As well as developing further those skills previously taught; the children will be asking and answering questions, building vocabulary, making predictions, making inferences and writing sentences with different forms. They will also be writing captions for pictures, creating dialogue, writing character descriptions, letter writing, instruction writing and creative writing. We cannot wait to see where these texts will take us!
Learning Adventure - Come Fly With Us
This area of learning links to many areas of the curriculum. The history focus will take children into the life of a significant individual called Amelia Earhart. They will learn about the key events in her life and using photographs and account stories they will find out about how she contributed toward aviation
Our adventures in Geography will continue with Amelia Earhart where she will take us over the world’s seven continents and five oceans. We will also be exploring the human and physical geography around Knutsford and we will be comparing it to a small area in Kenya.
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Our Ready Steady Go topic lends itself nicely into our Science during the Spring term where we will be investigating animals including humans. We will be exploring that animals, including humans have offspring which grow into adults. We will be talking about the basic needs for survival and the importance for humans, of exercise, food and hygiene.
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PE will be delivered twice a week on Monday and Wednesday. Please ensure that your child has their PE kit and pumps or trainers, in school at all times.
Reading
We put a high emphasis on reading in school with daily reading and spelling activities. It’s our expectation that all children read at least 3 times per week at home. We ask that parents read with their children and sign the home journals at least 3 times a week (ideally every night).
Planners/ Messages Please ensure your child’s home journal is in school everyday. If you wish to deliver a message to your child’s teachers please use the home journal as a form of communication, however please send your child into the class with their journal if there is a message in it.
Homework:
Spelling – 5 practice games on EdShed every week.
Maths – 5 practice games on EdShed every week.
Grammar on quiz shed every other week.
Homework is set on a Friday and needs to be completed by the following Wednesday. Rockstars is also set weekly through the garage section, where children will work on 2,5 and 10 times tables. All passwords are at the front of your child’s reading journal.
Useful Links
http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/ks1bitesize/numeracy/multiplication/fs.shtml
We cannot wait for an exciting term of fun filled learning.
Miss Atherton, Mrs Durban, Mrs Caveney and Miss Dixon
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