Welcome to the Dragonflies !

Hello and welcome to the Dragonfly class page.

*Meet the Dragonfly grown-ups*

The grown-ups in the Dragonfly class are Miss Frecklington (Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Friday) and Mrs Hul (Thursday), and our wonderful Teaching Assistant, Mrs Madin.

We love teaching the Dragonflies and we are so proud of all their achievements!

If you ever have any questions, please do not hesitate to ask. Thank you! 

Our classroom door is always open for you.

*Our Christian Value for the term*

Our Christian value for this term is Respect

This is our value for the Autumn 2 term.  Being respectful is one of our school rules, and children are taught the importance of being Ready, Respectful and Safe.

Being respectful is an important part of our common humanity, and children are taught to respect others as well as themselves. 

We emphasise, too, that we all have a responsibility to respect our world and our belongings. 

1 Peter 2:7 "Show proper respect to everyone."

*Our Learning for this term*

We are so excited for our Topic this term...

INCREDIBLE INVENTORS!!

English

We will continue to develop our writing through Talk for Writing, with our focus on the text Meerkat Mail. We will begin thinking about Sunny’s journey with an exciting ‘hook’ session where we will join the children on a journey to the West Common. Over the term, the children will learn the features included in a journey story. They will explore alliterative phrases, repetition for effect and the use of expanded noun phrases to add emphasis. They will also learn the key features of and how to write a non-chronological report.

Our T4W focus vocabulary: vast, gloom, clutch

Our focus common exception reading and spelling words: most, only, great, even, after, fast, last, past, father, Christmas

Home learning suggestions:

1. Reading practise books will be changed once a week. Please ensure reading practise books and reading diaries are brought back to school every day. Please read with your child at least 3 times a week.
2. Can you write a story about a journey you’ve been on? This could be real or imaginary!
3. Can you create a fact-file or a non-fiction page all about your favourite animal?

Maths

We will be continuing with the White Rose Maths scheme of learning. This term, the children will continue to develop their addition and subtraction skills. We will focus on adding and subtracting 2-digit numbers, especially those crossing 10. After our addition and subtraction topic, the children will develop a greater understanding of money. We will build our money skills by learning the value of different coins in order to make totals and find change. We will also be learning all about 2D and 3D shapes, including their names and properties.

Home learning suggestions:

The 2 QR codes on our newsletter will take you to two different games: Toy Shop and Shape Patterns. These will practise a range of money and pattern skills. If you’d like to show us your work, then play the games and record some answers on paper to bring into school or share on Natterhub. Have fun!

Topic

Science: We will be learning about how to identify and compare the suitability of a variety of everyday materials, investigating how materials can be changed, making predictions and recording our findings.
History & DT: This term, we are going to be learning all about how transport has changed within living memory! We will focus on the changes in cars up until now, through learning about wheels and eventually designing, building and testing our very own toy cars! How exciting!
RE: This term, the children will be focusing on personal expression by exploring which celebrations are important to Christians and a range of other faiths.
PE: The children will be continuing to focus on their fundamental movement skills, including jumping and landing, agility skills and a range of balances.
Computing: We will use technology purposefully to create, organise, store, manipulate and retrieve digital content. Children will use technology safely and respectfully, keeping personal information private; identify where to go for help and support when they have concerns about content or contact on the internet or other online technologies. We will continue to use Natterhub within our Computing lessons to support our PSHE learning.

Home learning suggestions:
1. Can you research some facts about an amazing invention?

2. Go on a journey – create a map of your journey and choose a way to show what you did on your journey.

3. Find out more about a place you’d like to visit.

Extra helpful information
PE days    Monday and Thursday.
The PE uniform is white t-shirt and navy/black leggings/joggers and a navy/black jumper, trainers or plimsolls.

PE kits must be in school every day as timetables can alter at the last minute and all items of clothing must be named and in a named bag.

If you would like your child to wear laces up school shoe or trainers please could you spend a little bit of time teaching them how to tie laces.

Important dates:

1^st Nov – Family reading morning         12^th Nov – Natterhub Talk for parents/carers
15^th Nov – Children In Need               19^th Nov – Library visit (TBC)
20^th Nov – Wonderful Wednesday     26^th Nov – Family Drop Ins
3^rd Dec – Movie Night                        10^th Dec – KS1 Christmas Craft
12^th Dec – Christmas Jumper Day      13^th Dec – Year 2 Performance 9:30am & 2:15pm
16^th Dec – Church Service                  17^th Dec – Party Day

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@DragonfliesStF

@StF_DigiLeaders

THERE MAY BE MORE DATES ADDED THROUGHOUT THE TERM SO PLEASE MAKE SURE YOU CHECK PARENTMAIL AND THE CLASS WINDOW NOTICE BOARDS.

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