Welcome to Elm Class

Happy New Year! Here's what we've got coming up during our first half of spring term in Elm Class.

This half term our text in English is called 'The Last Wolf'. After studying the text, the children will write their own hunting narrative and will also create their own recipe for a hunry wolf.

Our humanities topic is 'Silk'. The children will be building on their knowledge from our previous topic, learning more about what it was like to work during the Victorian era and all about the local silk industry in Macclesfield. We have our trip to look forward to, to The Silk Musuem in February to finish our topic. 

Our maths focus will be finishing our Addition and Subtraction unit and moving on to Multiplication and Division.

In science we will be exploring living things and their habitats as well as looking at their food chains.

Please see the curriculum overview for the Spring term (under the curriculum tab) for a learning overview for each subject. 

Forest School

Forest school is every other Wednesday, led by Mrs Darlington. Children should come into school in their forest school clothes and have appropriate footwear with them.

PE

Year 2 will have PE on a Thursday afternoon, led by ASM.  Please ensure that your child has their PE kit and that it is in school all week. 

Helping your child at home

Reading: Please read regularly at home with your child and our school expectation is to read a minimum of 4 times weekly. All children will have a school reading book, however there is nothing stopping you and your child from finding other interesting texts to read together e.g. articles in the local newspaper, non-fiction books about a hobby or even comic books.

Maths: It is key at this stage that all children are confident and fluent with their number bonds to 10 and 20, as this will help them moving forward as we start to work with bigger numbers. NumBots is brilliant for building fluency as well as using apps such as One-Minute maths. Children can also practise counting in 2s, 5s and 10s. 

If you have any questions please get in touch via class dojo or bmatthews@smallwood.cheshire.sch.uk