Willow (KS2 DP)

Welcome to Willow Class (Designated Provision 2)

Teachers:

Mrs. Welsby – Monday, Tuesday, Wed morning

Mrs. Bonser – Wed afternoon, Thursday, Friday

Teaching Assistants:

Miss. Lacey

Mr. Boulter

English

We will reading: Nibbles: The Book Monster

We will be exploring the story that focusses on a mischievous, yellow monster who escapes his own story by nibbling through the pages and causes chaos in other classic fairy tales.

The children will participate in activities based on:

sentence structure
using connectives
plurals

They will write a diary entry as Nibbles.

Maths

Addition and Subtraction

We will begin to explore addition and subtraction using the column method. Good recall of addition and subtraction within 20 will support your child when working with the numbers in each column.

Multiplication and Division

We will be recognising, making and adding equal groups. As well as looking at doubling and halving and odd and even numbers.

Number Facts

Children have access to Numbots / TT rockstars to help with quicker recall of number facts. Usernames and passwords for this will be sent out via Seesaw so that you can practise at home.

Science

Living things and their habitats / Animals including humans.

First, we will look at classifying living things. This will take us onto exploring the local area for living things and answering the question, “What is special about our local environment?” We will look at the dangers posed to the local area and beyond and ways in which we can protect it.

History

Our learning question is:

Who were the Vikings?

We will be building on our history learning from Autumn term and continuing our journey through time.

Children will

look at who the Vikings are
why they invaded
discussing different sources of information and bias
learn about the different kings during the Viking reign and their importance

Geography

Our learning question is:

What are the key features of mountains?

We will be learning about:

the features of mountains and mountain ranges
how they are formed

We will locate mountain ranges in Europe.

Other Subjects

Other curriculum areas:

RE	Christianity – God Does how we treat the world matter? Islam Why do Muslims believe in obeying God?
PSHE	Dreams and Goals Healthy Me
Computing	Programming Spring 1 – Algorithms and Debugging Spring 2 – Using Beebot, Virtual Beebot and Scratch Jr
Art	Weaving
DT	Mechanisms – Wheels and Axles – Monsters
Music	Spring 1 – Pitch Spring 2 – Musical Symbols
PE	Gymnastics

Class Notices

Snack

Children can bring in a healthy snack each day or they can buy toast for £1 a week. Please send £1 into school in an envelope with your child by 9.30am each Friday morning to pay for toast for the following week.

Alternatively you can pay for the term by bank transfer direct to school. Please use your child’s name and ‘TUCK’ as the reference.

Account Number: 43836550

Sort Code: 01 – 09 – 17

Each child also needs a named water bottle that can remain in school. If you would like your child to have squash, please send in a named bottle.

PE is on Wednesdays and Thursdays

Your child needs a full named PE kit including: