In our class our teacher is Mrs Cowley (was Miss Wright) with Mrs Taylor as our teaching assistant and dinner lady. 

We start our day at 8:45am and finish at 3:15pm, drop off and pick up is from the KS2 playground.

Our PE days are a Wednesday and a Thursday in the afternoon - your child can come in in their PE kit on those days.

Please ensure that your child has correct PE kit: white top, black bottoms and pumps/trainers. 

The children will have a morning break and we will phase out the afternoon break by Christmas, you will have to bring your own snacks as school doesn't provide them in KS2. Make sure they are healthy snacks such as rice cakes, fruit or vegetables. Make sure to send your child in with a water bottle so they can have a drink throughout the day. A friendly reminder that only water is allowed in your child's in class drink. 

We communicate on Class Dojo, if you need to contact me don't hesitate to message me on there. If you need your code for your child let us know and we'll send home a new code for you to connect. Also follow us on twitter @MrsCowley_LCPS

I will be sending reading books home - make sure you check your child's bag for books, make a comment and sign in their reading record and we will change the book in school the next day. Don't forget about our reading challenge! We would love to see you reach your bronze, silver and gold awards.

Homework will be sent out on a Friday  and brought back in by Wednesday. Each week your child will get their spellings, relevant times tables and some suggested activities to support their learning in class that week. If you feel like your child needs extra support in an area send myself a dojo message and I can send home some more supportive work. At the front of their homework books will be a log in code for Numbots, Timestable Rockstars and Purple Mash - these are all educational and will support them with their learning.

Websites that will help your child:

https://play.ttrockstars.com/auth/school/student/3688   - times table rockstars, this will help your child with times tables skills

https://www.topmarks.co.uk/maths-games/hit-the-button    - hit the button will help with number fact recall (number bonds and times tables)

https://www.purplemash.com/sch/lyndhurst-sk16   - purple mash has lots of educational games on there

If a log in is needed for any website it will be stuck to the inside of their homework book/reading record.

What are we Learning About in Autumn Term?

Maths 

We will be learning about numbers up to 1000. We will be learning how to read them, write them and what each digit is worth in the number. We will be learning lots of different ways to split the number into 100s, 10s and 1s. We will be learning how to add and subtract numbers up to 1000 using the column method. We will also be looking at using arrays and learning our 3s, 4s and 8 times tables. 

Science 

We will be learning all about forces & magnets. We will be looking at what the force friction is, and that magnetism doesn't need 2 objects to touch to exert a force. We will be grouping and sorting different materials into whether they are magnetic or not. We will also be learning all about Rocks! We will be learning that there are 3 different types of rocks with different characteristics. We will be learning how fossils are made and what soil is made out of. 

History 

We will be learning what life was like for people in pre-historic Britain. We will be looking at the changes to their lifestyle from a nomadic hunter-gatherer up until the Roman invasion during Celtic times. We will be learning all about what inventions there were and how some of these still influence us today. 

Geography 

We will be looking at different settlements around the world. We will be comparing villages, to cities. We will be looking at the land use in our local area, spotting the human geography and the physical geography in Dukinfield. We will also be learning about a city in another country - New Delhi, India - and how it is different to our own local area. 

Art & DT

We will be learning to express ourselves as artists with charcoal. We will be looking at key artists like; Heather Hansen and Laura McKendry to inspire us and our artwork. We will be using music as a way to express ourselves. We will be looking at levers and linkages in DT and using these to create a moving picture/moving piece on a card.  

Music 

We will be using the music of South Africa to introduce us to musical notation! We will be learning all about minims, semibreves, crotchets and rests. We will be looking at the different musical genres like Afropop, South African Jazz, Gumboot Dance and Zulu Folk Music.  

PSHE 

This term will be all about settling into our new class. It will be learning about the British Values of Rule of Law and Democracy. It will be looking at who is in our community and how to be a good member of our school/local community and how to manage the ups and downs of friendships now we are on a different playground with new people.  

RE 

We will be learning all about Christianity! We will be looking at what is inside a church, what Christian's believe, how they show their beliefs and how they worship God.  

Spanish

In Spanish we will be learning how to pronounce certain sounds and how to introduce ourselves, say hello and ask some basic questions to someone. 

PE 

In PE we will be learning all about the fundamentals of sport and OAA (outdoor adventurous activity). After half term we will be learning all about dance and basic ball skills.