Welcome to Malvern Class!

In Malvern Class Years 2, and 3 work together to create an inspiring learning environment. Our class is taught by Miss Brown and we are supported by fantastic teaching assistants throughout the day. We strive to make learning fun and interactive and build a nurturing environment as the children move into KS1 from EYFS. 

The children in Malvern Class benefit from regularly having a sports coach to support their PE and tournaments within our sports partnership. Music is a passion of Miss Brown's so there's always a song to learn or an instrument to play! 

This half term we will be exploring the human and physical geography of the world around us. We are then going to use maps to identify different features of human and physical geography. We will recap our knowledge of the 7 continents and 5 oceans. We will also label our own maps using symbols and the 8-compass points to navigate around them.

Linking with our work on Maps, we will be creating Our own abstract maps in a variety of styles using the work of Susan Stockwell, Emma Johnson and Josef Albers to inspire our own relief maps, “stained glass” inspired maps and printed maps.

 Our English work this half term is based on the Book the Tin Forest by Helen Ward. We will explore the imagery of the book before creating non-chronological reports about the forest and also forests from around the world. We will also be writing instructions on how to look after a forest, utilising resources from arborists. We will continue to follow daily phonics and reading at your child’s level. Rhino group will use our scheme of work in line with our Pathways to Write English scheme. Spellings will be sent home at the beginning of the half term for you to practise.

In  maths we will finish off our multiplication and division work over the first few weeks of the half term before moving onto fractions. Whilst the Y2s focus on Halves, quarters, thirds and three-quarters, the Y3s will be finding unit and non-unit fractions of amounts. As always, please continue to practise times tables at home using TTRS. Confidence with times tables will help with our fractions work.

This half term’s Science is focussed on forces and magnets. We have a number of interesting experiments to run, exploring the push and pull forces and the impact of different surfaces on movement. We will also explore what materials are magnetic, and how magnets are used in everyday life.  

In RE this half term we will be exploring different Jewish festivals and traditions, and their significance. We will learn about the importance of the Sabbath, comparing that to Christian

Holy days, before exploring Rosh Hashanah, Yom Kippur and Pesach.

PSHE will be taught in Key Stages, with the Year 1/2s being taught by Miss Randall and the Year 3s being taught alongside the Year 4s by Miss Brown. The Y3s will be finishing off health and wellbeing by exploring ways to support their mental health. The Y2s will be considering the importance of money and banks/building societies.

In computing this half term we will be exploring emailing. We will recap the importance of keeping our data secure and learning our passwords, before sending our own emails, and learning how to recognise spam/phishing emails.

Throughout this year we will be expanding our musical instrument skills on our new chromatic glockenspiels. Each half term will focus on a different musical style from around the world, with the core skills of reading and writing musical notation, playing in time, singing and developing musicality. Our next theme is Salsa music.

PE will be on Monday afternoons with Mr Watkins, who will be working on net and ball with the children. Our second PE session will be on Friday afternoons with Miss Brown who will be covering dance.

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