Malvern Class (Year 2, 3)
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!
What are we doing this half term?
This half term we will be using the ‘Owl who was Afraid of the Dark’ by Jill Tomlinson, both picture and chapter books, to inspire non-chronological reports about owls. We will use the information from the text and our own research to explore grouping related ideas under sub-headings and writing in a more formal, scientific manner. We will continue to follow daily phonics and reading at your child’s level. We will be utilising Jungle Club – the continuation of Success for All Phonics for our spelling provision. Spellings will be sent home at the beginning of the half term to be practised weekly.
In maths we will be moving onto multiplication and division skills, Y2s focusing on 2s. 5s, 10s, 3s and Year 3s adding in 4s and 8s. We will be exploring what the terms equal and unequal mean and recognising the structure of multiplying and dividing. Year 3s will move onto written methods to calculate bigger numbers using known facts. This would be a wonderful time to dig out the TTRS password!
In science this half term we will be exploring what parts make up a plant. We will be looking at the functions of the different parts of plants and how they help the plant to grow and thrive. We will also explore how the different parts can look different between plants and explore how that effects the plant in its environment.
In RE this half term we will be returning to our understanding of Muslim festivals and celebrations. We will be exploring the importance of the mosque as a meeting place for communities and consider the festival of Ramadan and how it supports Muslim people to follow the teachings of the Qu’ran.
In History this half term we will be exploring the significance of the sinking of the Titanic. We will know the difference between primary and secondary sources and the importance of the validity of evidence when exploring historical events. We will also consider how life was different on board between the different classes of people travelling.
In art we will be researching the work of Antony Gormley and Henry Moore to inspire our own sculptures of the human form. We will then consider the inside of a sculpture – thinking about the inside of the Titanic compared to the outside, and create inside/outside sculptures in the hall.
In computing this half term we will be creating algorithms using Scratch, investigating how we can move sprites in different ways, problem solving and debugging our algorithms and creating our own animations.
PSHE will be taught in Key Stages, with the Year 1/2s being taught by Mrs Gomersall and the Year 3s being taught alongside the Year 4s by Miss Brown. Both groups will begin by finishing Health and Wellbeing in Y2 and Citizenship in Y3. We will then swap and Y2s will learn about Citizenship and the Y3s will explore Health and Wellbeing.
In music this half term we will be using music to tell stories. We will consider how music is used to create feelings within videos and considering how we can create our own sounds and sound effects to tell our own simple stories. We will then record and perform these for each other.
PE will be on Monday afternoons with Mr Carter who will be working on Gymnastics with the children. Our second PE session will be on Friday afternoons with Miss Brown who will be covering different ways we can move our bodies in circuits.
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