Class 12

Class Teacher: Mrs V Senarathne
Learning Assistant: Miss Bland

Mrs Sen

Hello and welcome to Class 12,

I am very excited and looking forward to a fun, hardworking and successful term in Class 12. Our class page will include lots of important information about our upcoming learning so please remember to check back regularly for any updates. Keep your eyes peeled for any photos too!

In Class 12, we have very high expectations of exceptional behaviour and attitudes to learning. All children are expected to stay on green by following our school rules, listening carefully and trying their best. However, they should be striving for gold by showing the Ghyllgrove Learning Powers. You should aim to be getting your green certificates to take home every Friday to show how fabulous you have been at school.

Curriculum

In the first Summer half term, our topic is “Green Fingers”. During these weeks the children will be learning about the different parts of a plant and its purpose. They will also learn about the different types of farming and how the crops get from the field to our forks! Lucky for the children they have the opportunity to visit a working farm, that is linked to our Food Discovery program. After half term, our exciting new topic will be “Egyptians”. In this topic will be working on our map skills to find out where Egypt is in the world and learning about the Ancient Egyptian civilisation. The children will also study the River Nile.

We will be focusing on improving and consolidating our skills in addition, subtraction, multiplication and division. We will continue to improve our understanding of number and our mental strategies. We will continue to practice our times tables with the aim that all pupils will know their multiplication and division facts for all tables x3 x4 x8 by the end of Year 3. As well as this, we will explore money, measurement, time and fractions during the Summer term too.

In Year 3, we will be reading a variety of Jake Cake stories by Michael Broad. We will be focusing on diary entries, formal letters and the use of speech punctuation. We will also be continuing with our sentence structure and grammatical features such as adjectives, nouns, verbs and adverbs. We will also practice our grammar and our spellings which will be sent home weekly.

Our PE lessons will take place on Thursday and Friday. PE kits (white t-shirt, red shorts and trainers) are to be kept in school and will be sent home half-termly to be washed. Please can you include a cold weather P.E. kit (plain joggers and a sweatshirt) as a number of PE lessons will take place outside.

With so many exciting things going on in school, there will be lots to talk about on those journeys home. Make sure you’re impressing your parents and telling them all about your learning.

Homework

All of the staff in Class 12 will work tirelessly to ensure everybody does their best this year. We will regularly hear the children read and set them times table challenges too, so look out for these in the Home School Diaries.

In order to help your child achieve and accelerate their progress, we ask for the following commitments from you at home too:

Listen to your child read at home at least 4 times a week and record this in your child’s Home School Diary. Please take the time to put a small note and we will also do the same every time we hear your child read in school.
Practise your times tables and spellings regularly.
Look at the homework task on Google Classroom.

We are incredibly lucky to have access to some fantastic online resources, which will also support their learning too. Your child’s login details are included at the front of their Home School Diary.

Times Table Rock Stars is a fun and challenging online programme designed to help pupils master their times tables by playing the different games and answering different questions to improve their Rock speed and status. Children will earn coins for correctly answered questions which they can use to improve and upgrade their Rock Star Avatar. Just go to https://play.ttrockstars.com and use the login information inside your Home School Diary.

Oxford Owl is another excellent resource to help develop your child's spelling skills at home. Just go to https://www.oxfordowl.co.uk/ and use the login information inside your Home School Diary.

Please remember, if you have ANY concerns during the year then come and see us. We will always help you if we know about anything that is worrying you. We want to keep everybody at Ghyllgrove safe, happy and achieving

Mrs Sen

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