Welcome to Koalas!

 

Our team: Mrs Cowley (Teaching assistant), Miss West (Teacher) Thur - Fri, Miss Oliver (Teacher) Mon - Weds

Key information:

The doors to the classroom will be open at 8:30, ready to see all children in for 8:35.

The school day finishes at 3:20.

PE day is Tuesday. Children must bring in a full PE kit (a plain white t-shirt, black bottoms and trainers). Children must have their hair tied back and earrings taken out.

Forest School/Swimming is Wednesday.This term (Autumn 1), Koalas will be swimming. For swimming, children must have a swimming costume/trunks, a towel and a swimming hat. Like PE, children must have their earrings taken out. 

 

Curriculum:

In English, we will begin by exploring the story Troll Swap by Leigh Hodgkinson and writing our own stories based on this. This will be followed by a poetry unit looking at Zebra Question by Shel Silverstein.

For maths, we begin by looking at place value, consolidating our knowledge of numbers to 100. This will then lead into some work on addition and subtraction later on in the term. 

In science, for the first term, we will be focusing on a range of different materials and their properties. 

Moving on to History, the children will be learning all about the fascinating topic of the Great Fire of London. This will help to inspire us for our PE topic which is a Great Fire of London dance!

In R.E., the children will be answering the question Who is Muslim and how to they live?

We are so excited to welcome you back on Thursday 5th September and can't wait to get started on our learning journey together. Welcome back!!

Miss Oliver, Miss West and the Koalas team :)

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Autumn 1 Learning

18.9.2024

This week, in English, we have been writing diary entries for Tabitha Lumpet, based on the story of Troll Swap by Leigh Hodkinson. We have been thinking about the use of capital letters, noun phrases and using conjunctions and or because to join. 

Here are a few snapshots of our fantastic writing.