Coleman

Welcome to Coleman Class!

We are Coleman Class, Miss Boor is our teacher and Miss Tanner, Mrs Vargeson and Mrs Stott are our learning assistants.

Autumn 2023

Our PE days are Wednesday and Friday.

In English this term we will be exploring:

• Persuasive leaflets 
• George and the Dragon by Christopher Wormell
• Poetry based on the poem Firework Night by Andrew Collett

In Maths, Year 1 will be starting with place value within 10, followed by addition and subtraction within 10 and geometry.
Year 2 will be starting with place value within 100, addition and subtraction and geometry.

In Phonics, Year 1 will start by revisiting phase 3 and 4 to help us to spell when writing words, phrases and sentences. More information about the learning each week will be sent out in our Learning Sharing.
Year 2 will be starting to learn phase 6, developing their knowledge and understanding of spelling rules as well as working towards being able to read and spell the 200 high frequency words and the Year 2 common exception words.
 

This term our topics are:

Science - The Human Body and Living Things and their Habitats

Geography - Spatial Sense

History - The Romans in Britain

Art - Craft and Design: Map it Out

Design Technology - Structures: Baby Bear's Chair

PE - Gymnastics and Multi-skills

Computing - What is a computer? and Algorithms and Debugging

PSHE - Money Matters and Think Positive

RE - How did the world begin? and What do some people believe God looks like?

Music - Hands, Feet, Heart and Ho Ho Ho

Home Learning

We expect children to be reading at home daily to enable them to apply their phonics and develop fluency. Please use: ‘What is … doing?’, ‘Who (action relating to a character)?’, ‘Why do you think…?’, ‘How do you know…?’ and ‘What do you think…?’ as sentence starters to help develop their understanding and comprehension. To extend their reading you could ask your child to write a sentence to answer a question that you have asked them.

Each week an overview will be posted to Class Dojo detailing the learning for the coming week, as well as suggestions of activities to do at home to consolidate and extend this learning.

Times tables are an important part of Maths. Throughout Year 2 and towards the end of Year 1 children will be learning about and solving problems involving their times tables. To support their rapid recall of these please encourage your child to use TTRockstars regularly.