Welcome to Class 2

Dear Parents,

I hope that you all had a great Easter holiday and that you are enjoying this beautiful spell of sunny warm weather. 
Let’s hope it lasts so that we are able to enjoy all our summer activities to the full.

We have a very busy term ahead. Our topic for the term will be Rainforests – see below for more details.

We have a number of exciting activities planned, including a trip to the Children’s Forest and the residential for Year 3 to name but a few!

Sports Day will take place on Monday 2nd June at 2.30pm.

Rainforests
In Class 2 our focus for each subject area will be as follows:

• Art: Henri Rousseau – his life and works; drawing, painting and collage inspired by Rousseau; clay sculptures of rainforest animals
• British Values: respect and tolerance
• Computing: internet research and presenting findings using PowerPoint
• D and T: construction – making rainforest dioramas
• Geography: world map, continents and oceans; location of rainforests on the world map; weather comparisons; features of rainforests – forest layers, forest floor, flora and fauna
• History: the Windrush generation – who are they and what contributions did they make to Britain?
• Music: disco music, glockenspiels, revisiting themes of the year
• PSHE: Keeping safe, internet safety, privacy, growing and changing bodies
• PE: cricket with Fraser and tennis with Bethan, sports day, outdoor and adventurous activities (Y3 residential)
• RE: what difference does being a Muslim make to daily life? Famous Muslims – Mo Salah; the Five Pillars of Islam; the mosque; the prayer mat
• Science: plants, life cycles, parts of a plant, transportation of water, flowers and pollination, seed dispersal, planting and growing seeds, investigations and fair tests

Homework
Homework will continue as before – a brief summary below.

• Reading – little and often, listening to your child and asking questions about the book;
• Spellings to learn for test on Fridays – a few minutes regularly throughout the week;
• Times tables – to learn for test on Fridays – again a few minutes regularly throughout the week;
• Maths and English – one small task for each per week.

I very much appreciate the support given to your children with their homework. Your support really helps your child to achieve their potential. If you have any queries or concerns regarding homework, please do let me know.

KS2 Residential
The Year 3 children will be going on the residential trip to Eskdale (Monday 16th June – Friday 20th June) with Class 3. Miss Pennington and I will both accompany the trip for the whole week. Year 2 will join Mrs Harrison in Class 1 
for a week of themed activities.

Summer weather
Please remember to send your child to school with a full water bottle every day, especially important when it is hot. Sunhats are also a good idea as our field is very sunny all day. Children may bring suncream to school in a labelled bottle, which they can apply themselves before going out to play as and when needed.

I hope that this newsletter will be useful to you. As ever I am available for a chat at the beginning and end of the school day, so please do not hesitate to come and see me if you have any queries or concerns.

If you need to send me an e-mail please do so! fiona.sweetman@irthingtonvillage.cumbria.sch.uk

I am looking forward to another exciting term with the children and I hope they are too

Yours sincerely,

Fiona Sweetman