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Orangutans- Year 1 & Year 2

Welcome to Orangutans!

Our grown ups

Mrs Brudzinski is our class teacher on Mondays, Tuesdays and Wednesdays Mrs Tinsley is our class teacher on Thursdays and Fridays.

Miss Snood is our class teaching assistant. Miss Mercer is our extra support teaching assistant.

We are a mixed year 1 and 2 class! We have very positive attitudes towards learning and embrace
new learning experiences and challenges! We never give up even when something can seem tricky, you will
often hear us saying "we can't do it YET" or "just keep trying". We are very hardworking, and understand
mistakes are part of learning. We work collaboratively when working in groups or with a partner; we love to

share our learning, ideas and experiences with each other. Our grown ups like our lessons to be fun, enjoyable
and interactive; they encourage us to immerse ourselves in our learning. They have high expectations for us and
want us to achieve the best whilst being the best versions of ourselves we can be! We are kind, caring
and thoughtful friends, looking out for one another and comforting each other if we are feeling sad or hurt.

Our topic this half term is...

In English our focus texts will be "The Bad- Tempered Ladybird" and "The Bug Girl".
Throughout the week we will have handwriting, grammar and spellings lessons. During Shared Reading lessons, we will be
focussing on fiction and non-fiction texts about minibeasts and habitats.

Year 1; This half term, our Maths learning will focus upon place value, addition and subtraction above 20 and money.

Year 2; This half term, our Maths learning will focus upon multiplication and division, addition and subtraction to 100 and
money.
We will apply our learning in problem solving lessons.

This half term, our Science learning will focus upon Living things and their habitats. We will be learning about minibeasts,
thinking about the different microhabitats they can be found in depending on their needs. We will be conducting a minibeast
hunt, recording where they can be found within the school grounds. We will be setting up an ant farm within the classroom,
observing what the ants do. We will be designing a microhabitat for a chosen minibeast that can be found within our school
grounds and then making them during a Forest School session. Year 1s will be learning about and identifying and sorting
animals that are carnivores, herbivores and omnivores and Year 2s will be learning about and drawing food chain using the
correct vocabulary.

In Geography, our learning will focus on map skills. We will be looking at aerial photos and maps of our school and creating
our own map of the school playground with a simple key. During Art and Design lessons, we will be learning about the
artist Caroline Bell who uses natural resources to print with. We will learn about the primary colours, how to make
secondary colours and how to create shade and tint. In Computing the Year 1s learning will focus on word processing and how
to use GOOGLE docs on the chrome books as well as saving the work they type up into our class folder. Year 2s learning will
focus on presentation skills and how to use powerpoint. During RE lessons the Year 1s will be learning about the stories of
Jesus and retelling them through role play. Year 2s will be learning about the Jewish faith and the festival of Shabbat. In Music
our topics will be " Round and Round" (Year 1) and "Friendships" (Year 2). We will be learning how to use instruments ,
compose music and then perform for others. During RHE (JIGSAW) lessons we will be following the topic "relationships". We
will be talking about the different relationships we have with family and friends, and talking about how to be a good friend.

We have PE on Tuesdays (dance) and Fridays (invasion games, rounders). During dance lessons we will focus our learning
on the story "Where the wild things are". We will create sequences of movements to different pieces of music, to retell the
main events of the story. During rounders lessons, we will be learning the skills needed to attack and defend.
Children will need to come to school in their PE kit on Tuesdays and Fridays (unless there is a Forest School
session on the Tuesday). Children should wear a white or green round neck t shirt, shorts or jogging bottoms and
plimsolls or trainers. Long hair MUST be tied back. If possible, earrings should be removed however they can be
covered with plasters or micro-pore tape if they are unable to be taken out.
26.4.24, children will be participating in a wheelchair skills workshop provided by Express Coaching. Children will
need to come to school in their PE kits on this day!

Summer 1 parent curriculum grid

Homework will be published on WEDUC every Friday. This will be a link to an activity on Education City or a spelling activity. The children need to complete this by the following Wednesday. They will receive a stamp on their Bear Hunt or Stick Man
sheet for each piece of homework completed.

Your child's reading book will be changed once a week, every Friday. Please make sure your child brings their reading book into
school every day. We expect children to read at home, and this to be recorded in their reading diary.

Our Forest School dates this half term are:

- Tuesday 23rd April
- Tuesday 21st May

Please bring wellies or a change of shoes to school in a carrier bag so that we can change into them outside before
the session.

Trips ,Visitors and important dates

- 16th April - Mansfield Town football training sessions (during school time)
- 19th April- Mansfield Town penalty shootout (during school time)
- 2nd May- White Post Farm small animals visit

-6th May- BANK HOLIDAY, SCHOOL CLOSED
- 13th May- Open door, parent book look 2:30pm