The children were amazing last week, completing all the assessments and enjoying creating some beautiful cave art too! I was very proud of how well they behaved and how much effort they put into their assessments.

This week in English, we will be spending time revisiting, and building on, sentence construction. We will start with the basics and then use the different building blocks to create more complex sentences. This will continue to be based on the book How to Wash a Woolly Mammoth by Michelle Robinson.

Guided reading this week will continue with the extract from Anne Fine’s book, Bill’s New Frock. The children will have further opportunities to listen to the story to build familiarity, and will then be reading in pairs and answering questions to discuss the narrative and language features.

In Maths this week we will continue to focus on place value, investigating numbers to 1,000 and looking at both straightforward partitioning and more flexible petitioning. Times tables will continue, with the children again completing a times table challenge this week.

We will be investigating what evidence is available and what it tells us about the Stone Age in our Time and Place topic. Plus discussing how digital devices help us in computing.

Mrs Johnson will continue with the People of God unit in RE this week.

Mrs Tompsett will continue with the ‘animals including humans’ unit on Friday, further investigating the function of a skeleton and identifying this in humans and other animals. The children will complete the weekly spelling test (words can be found in the home learning section) and have their weekly French session.

Maple class have PE on Mondays and Thursdays, and both sessions will be with myself and Mr Luckhurst.

Reading Records have been sent home for most children, and will generally be changed on a Monday and Thursday. We would ask however, that children bring their books and Reading Records in to school each day and that they aim to read daily, ideally with an adult – details of this can then be recorded in the Reading Record. The books coming home initially, will be based on advice from the Year 2 team and follow the new phonics scheme for those not already free reading. However, we do understand that children progress at different rates during the summer holidays, so pleased do contact me if you feel your child’s book is either too easy or too difficult.

I am always happy to answer any questions you may have so please do contact me if you have any queries, using the class email address:

maple@st-barnabas.kent.sch.uk

Best wishes

Mrs Smallcombe and the Maple Team