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! 

To start our English work this half term, we will be reading Troll Swap. We will adapt the story by creating our own characters who have contrasting lives they swap into. We will also develop our use of language, revising the use of adjectives to create expanded noun phrases and ensuring the fundamentals of sentence structure are secure – capital letters, full stops, finger spaces and the beginnings of additional punctuation for the Y2s. 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 focused on place value, addition and subtraction. In Year 2 we will be exploring numbers up to 100 and in Year 3, numbers up to 1000. We will use a variety of methods and equipment to help us including place value counters and grids, dienes equipment and pictorial representations.

This term in Science we will be exploring Habitats and Microhabitats. We will consider what makes a good habitat and how different habitats can be for both plants and animals. We will be exploring our outside spaces to find microhabitats in our Forest School area.

This half term we will be exploring Islamic beliefs, learning who the Prophet Muhammed (PBUH) was and how his teachings impact the lives of Muslim people. We will also learn more about the Qur’an and the lessons and stories contained in that Holy book.

In History we will be discovering Ancient Egypt. By the end of the half term we will have a better understanding of the advancements and legacies of the Ancient Egyptians including the importance of the pyramids, what was discovered in Tutankhamun’s tomb and who Cleopatra was. We will also be exploring the importance of the Nile to the growth of Egypt and the development of agriculture. Linking with our work on Ancient Egypt, we will be exploring the extensive art left behind by this civilisation. We will be designing our own scrolls and using the theory behind turning papyrus into paper to create our own paper to use for our final project.

In computing this half term we are going back to basics and ensuring we can log on to the computers, use a mouse, open a word document and a browser. We will also be doing some of our online safety work as we begin to explore the internet.

This half term in music we will be considering call and response; following patterns and creating our own. We will be using animals as a theme so we will also be exploring Camille Saint-Saën’s “Carnival des Animaux” to consider how different animals can be represented in music. We will then use this to inspire our own use of instruments. 

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 be exploring families and relationships, considering both family and friendship dynamics.

PE will be on Monday afternoons with our new sports coach, who will be working on invasion game skills with the children. Our second PE session will be on Friday afternoons with Miss Brown.

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