Welcome To Lower Key Stage Two

Here you will find a plethora of information from our class pages. This will include a gallery to share our learning experiences with you and pages to help and assist your child with a multitude of things, including; homework, times tables, spellings and topic. Hopefully you will find this information useful.

Our Curriculum

Autumn Term 1 - Remarkable Rainforest

This is our first topic of the academic year; Remarkable Rainforests. Within this topic we will investigate the location of rainforests, explore the human and physical features of rainforests, the structure of a rainforest. We will explore and compare the climate of rainforests in comparison to our local area using fieldwork skills.

Autumn Term 2 - Remarkable Rainforest

This half term we will continue with our Remarkable Rainforest topic but with a greater historical focus. Looking at the Ancient Maya. Who they were? Chronology of Mayan history. The Maya hierarchy and daily life and looking at historical, primary & secondary sources to inform us about the Ancient Mayan civilisation.

Spellings

Each child will be given 10 spellings to learn each week. These will consist of the phoneme or spelling pattern that your child is working on within Phonics/Spellings for that week along with high frequency words. The children will be tested on these weekly. Your child’s class teacher will inform you of the test date. The spellings will be available on EDSHED for the children to practise their spelling through games, this allows them to compete against their peers too. You will be provided with a login for this from your child’s teacher. A paper copy will also be sent home too.

Times Tables inc. Rockstars

We all love Times Table Rockstars. We will be continuing this for your child to learn their times tables. Your child’s class teacher will inform you when your child will need to start accessing these and which times table your child will need to focus on. Login details will also be provided for this too. Pupils will be tested on these regularly. 

Knowledge Organisers.

We are wanting to strengthen our home - school communications further; sharing information about what your child is learning at school for each half term/term. We have put together a knowledge organiser (See attached) to enable you to see the vocabulary your child needs to know and the information that they should be able to recall by the end of the half term/term.

We would be grateful if you could talk to your child about what they are going to be learning about or have learnt, reinforcing key pieces of information within the knowledge organiser. This will help your child to feel more confident about what they are learning, increase participation in class discussions and for you as parents be able to be a part of their learning journey.

Homework

Homework will be issued every Thursday, in a homework book. This will be in the style of a menu (Children can select to do one piece each week from the menu.) We expect children spend at least 30mins each week on homework. This must be completed & returned to school the following Wednesday where your child will receive Dojo rewards/Team points.