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 “Grandad’s Secret Giant” by David Litchfield. Our focus will be story-writing. We will explore the story, considering how the Giant helps the community and what we can do to help our own communities. We will then retell the story, using our own characters we have created. We will revise key knowledge such as expanded noun phrases, and learn about writing in the past and present progressive tenses.
In Science this half term we will be exploring how the food we eat and the exercise we do keeps our bodies healthy. We will consider the 4 needs all living things have, and how they are provided for in our daily lives. We will also be considering how energy passes through a food chain from producers to tertiary consumers.
In RE this half term we will be considering the importance of Easter to Christians. We will explore the events of Holy Week and consider the traditions and practises that are specific to this period in the
Liturgical calendar. This will culminate in our own Easter celebrations.
In Geography this half term we will be revising our knowledge of the continents, the equator, the Tropics of Cancer and Capricorn and the differences between the hemispheres. We will then be comparing our local environment to the contrasting environment of Kenya, considering differences in weather, seasons and human and physical geography.
Art and Design this half term we will be exploring the work of Ted Harrison, a Canadian artist who utilised hot and cold colours to create abstract landscapes of the Yukon. We will be ensuring we understand the concept of hot and cold colours and mixing primary colours to make secondary colours.
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 Citizenship in Y2 and Health and Wellbeing in Y3. The Y2s will have moved onto Economic practises and the understanding of money by the end of the half term.
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.
In music this half term we will be creating soundscapes of contrasting dynamics. We will be listening and responding to a variety of pieces of music. We will then use these pieces as inspiration to create pitched musical phrases to represent a planet.
PE will be on Monday afternoons with Mr Carter who will be working on Rugby with the children. Our second PE session will be on Friday afternoons with Miss Brown who will be covering tennis.
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