Friday 4th March 2022

Dear Parents and Carers of Blue Class pupils,

Re: Blue Class Curriculum – Spring 2 2022

Welcome back! We hope you had a fantastic break. Below I have outlined some key information regarding this term that we hope you will find useful.

Curriculum

Our topic this term is ‘Amazing Animals’. In English we will be focussing on ‘Hair Love’ by Matthew Cherry for World Book Week. We will then we writing a narrative based on the story ‘Lost and Found’ by Oliver Jeffers before writing non-chronological reports on penguins. In Maths some children are focussing on addition and subtraction of numbers within 10, doubling and halving within 10 and to place teen numbers on a number line. Some children are working on multiplication by repeated addition, multiplication by identifying equal groups, understanding arrays and using multiplication to solve problems.

Daily Reading

Children will bring home two reading books a week:

1. A book banded book suitable to your child’s reading ability, which they need to read aloud to an adult.
2. A library book which can be changed each week.

Please read with your child daily. Children’s books will be changed on Fridays.

P.E. Lessons

Your child will be wearing their PE kits all day so please ensure they have the appropriate kit (white T-shirt, dark bottoms), including trainers/plimsols.

The P.E. days are as follows:

All of Blue Class will have P.E. on a Wednesday.

Mainstream P.E. Lessons

Year 2
Year 2 will have P.E. on Mondays

Year 3
All Year 3 will have P.E. on these Mondays: 28^th February, 14^th March, 28^th March

Additionally, they will have P.E. on:

Mint Class: Mondays 7^th March, 14^th March
Emerald Class: Tuesdays 8^th March, 15^th March
Jade Class: Fridays 11^th March and 25^th March

Year 4

Cobalt Class:  25th February and 4th March   
Azure Class: 11th and 18th March  
Turquoise Class: 25th March and 1st April

Uniform

Encourage your child to wear full school uniform and ensure they have a coat appropriate for the weather. It is important that your child does not wear jewellery (unless it is for religious reasons) apart from stud earrings.

Trips

I am pleased to say that Bellingham, Leisure Centre has opened its doors again for our monthly soft play sessions! The next session will be Thursday 17th March. We will be leaving school at 9.30 and back before lunch.

Other information

Please ensure your child brings to school a filled and labelled water bottle each day.

Thank you for all your support, and as always if you have any questions please do not hesitate to ask.

Miss Mayo

Please take a look at our mindmap on the school website for information on our Amazing Animals Learning Journey.

Helping your child with spellings at home

Some children would continue to benefit from regular phonics games to help improve their reading https://www.phonicsplay.co.uk/ (username: kelvin, Password: grove).

Please also see the attached Year 1, 2, 3 and 4 common exception words to support your child with these tricky words.

Helping your child with Maths at home

Your child may also benefit from practising their number bonds, multiplication and division facts:

https://www.topmarks.co.uk/maths-games/hit-the-button

https://www.topmarks.co.uk/maths-games/daily10

Mathletics United Kingdom | Empowering Maths Learning Online

Helping your child with Reading at home with questioning

Helping you child with handwriting at home: Please see the attached sheet on letter formations and how we approach these at school. Your child may benefit from continued practice at home for short bursts of time.