What are we learning in the spring term?
Class: Explorers (Years 2 and 3)
English
Texts for the Autumn Term for Talk for Writing
My Uncle’s Dunkirk, Tail end Charlies and Taff in the Waff.
Within our topic we will be looking at these styles of writing:
Letters from evacuees, newspaper reports about key events, story planning about air raids and the
blitz, writing instructions, diary entries.
Grammar Year 2
Grammar Year 3
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Adjectives
Verbs
Commas
Contractions
Adding suffixes
Nouns
Plural nouns
Commands
Capital letters
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Inverted commas
Prepositions
Plurals
Adding suffixes to make adverbs
Verbs
Capital letters
Adding suffixes
Adjectives
Conjunctions
Commas
Nouns
Using ! and ?
Contractions (using apostrophes)
Maths
Year 2
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Year 3
Number and place value
Mental addition and subtraction
Problem solving, reasoning and
algebra
Measurement
Geometry: properties of shapes
Geometry: position and direction
Mental multiplication and division
Fractions, ratio and proportion
Statistics
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Number and place value
Mental addition and subtraction
Problem solving, reasoning and algebra
Mental multiplication and division
Statistics
Fractions, ratio and proportion
Geometry: properties of shapes
Geometry: position and direction
Measurement
Written addition and subtraction
Written multiplication and division
Other curriculum areas
History and Geography – World War 2 and the countries that were at war.
Design and Technology – Designing shelters and knitting.
Art – Colour mixing and cutting skills to design Blitz pictures.
Science Year 1 and 2 – Living things and their habitats
Science Year 3 – Light
Computing – Computer science – using algorithms to move sprite, bee-bot or roamer. Digital
literacy – using the computers for writing and drawing. Sending emails and learning about internet
safety.
RE – Journey of life
PSHCE – Understanding and managing feelings
Music – World war 2 songs and learning how to play the ocarina.
Special Events:
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DT week – knitting! Can anyone knit? Do you know anyone that can, who would be willing to
come and help us all to learn? (Date to be arranged.)
WW2 day – children can come dressed as evacuees.
Mums to tea.
Easter Disco
Homework will be sent home on a Friday it will include
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Spellings – please find a help sheet in your child’s spelling book for ideas of how to practise their
spellings.
Times tables to learn and a supporting worksheet
Either a maths activity or a reading comprehension – to be handed in the following Thursday.
Please also read as often as possible with your child.