Welcome to Koalas!

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

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Key information:

Welcome back! We hope you all had a fantastic Easter break and are ready for an exciting new term ahead.

PE day will continue to be a Tuesday afternoon. 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.

This term (Summer 1), Koalas class will be Swimming on a Wednesday afternoon, so please remember the correct swimming kit for this: a swimming costume/trunks, swimming hat, towel and goggles. 

For Swimming/Forest school and PE sessions, the no earrings rule still stands. We are not permitted to remove earrings in school and tape can no longer be used instead of removing earrings. Children will miss their lesson if they are unable to take out their earrings independently.

We are looking forward to having the children back in school and continuing with some fantastic learning. 

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Curriculum Summer 1:

We have an exciting half term ahead, packed with engaging learning opportunities across all subjects! Here’s what the children will be learning:

Maths – We will continuing our learning on fractions before moving on to money and time.

English – Our writing will be inspired by The Last Wolf by Mini Grey as we write a letter in role (recount).

Science – Our focus will be on plants and animals.

History – We will be learning about the History of Peterborough.

RE – Our big question this half-term is: What is the good news that Jesus Brings? 

Music – Our music unit will explore minibeasts

Computing – We’ll be focusing on pictograms, where we collect data in tally charts and using attributes to organise and present data on a computer. 

PSHE - We will be focusing on economic wellbeing. 

We are looking forward to having the children back in school. It’s going to be a fantastic half-term full of exciting learning!

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Curriculum Spring 1:

In English, we will start by looking at the poem From a Railway Carriage by Robert Louis Stevenson, and then we will be writing our own adventure story based off of The Dragon Machine by Helen Ward. 

For maths, we will start off focusing on counting money and solving problems. After, we will move on to looking at multiplication and division for the first time!

In science, we will start looking at living things and their environments. 

We will be going back to History this half term, specifically looking at nurses through history.

For RE, the children will be answering the question Who is Muslim and how do they live? Specifcally looking at the pillars of Islam.

We are looking forward to getting started on some amazing new learning.

We will see you all back Tuesday 7th January

Miss Oliver & Miss West

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Curriculum Autumn 1:

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

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. 

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Curriculum - Autumn 2:

In English, we will be looking at the story - The Owl Who Was Afraid of the Dark by Jill Tomlinson. 

For maths, we will continue looking at addition and subtraction and then moving on to shape.

In science, we will carry on with our topic of understanding materials and their properties. 

We will be starting our year 2 geography topic with food and farming - we may even get to taste some different food!

For RE, the children will be answering the question Why does Christmas matter?

We can not wait to get started on some amazing new learning - not to mention the KS1 Nativity!

We will see you all back Monday 4th November!

Miss Oliver & Miss West

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Autumn 2 Learning

This term in Science, the children learnt that friction is a force that occurs when two objects rub against each other. To help deepen their understanding, we conducted an investigation where cars travelled across different surfaces.

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