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Our Amazing Learning Environment

Please find photos below of our learning environment including photos of inside the Robin's classroom, the Atrium (our continuous provision space attached to our classroom) and of our outdoor area.

Hi everyone,

Welcome back to school for Summer 1 in the Robins class! :)

This year your teachers will be;

Miss Laflin - Monday - Friday

Mrs Ingate - Monday - Wednesday

Miss Palmer - Thursday & Friday

This term we will be exploring a new text called 'Lila and the Secret of Rain'. In English, we will be exploring the culture of different African countries alongside our focus text and other African tales. We will be describing settings, asking questions, creating some beautiful poetry and performing these. We will also be writing a diary entry in the role of our book character Lila, conveying her thoughts, feelings and wishes.

In Maths, we will finish looking at 2d shapes and lines of symmetry before moving onto measurement. This will include length and height, mass, capacity and telling the time.

During our Science lessons, we will be looking at 'Living things and their habitats'. We will consider things which are dead, alive or things that have never been alive. We will then progress onto looking at different animals' habitats, along with their microhabitats. Finally we will be learning about food chains.

In Geography, we are learning about the differences between the UK and another area of the world. We will primarily be researching and exploring life in Kenya (alongside our focus text 'Lila and the Secret of Rain'). This will include looking at landscape, weather, vegetation and wildlife.

In PE, we will be developing our jumping skills. With Mr Bolton, we will be working on attacking and defending principles within team games.

In Art, we will be looking at and creating African textiles and patterns in our own little projects.

In PSHE and RSHE we will be learning about basic First Aid and how to contact the Emergency services.

In Computing we will be using technology to make music!

Lastly in RE, we are looking at the religion Judaism with our focus question being 'Why is the Torah such a joy for the Jewish community?'

We will use our lovely COOL (Choosing Our Own Learning) area to further extend learning (both indoors and outdoors), which provides lots of different opportunities for every child's individual interests - including Writing, Reading, Maths, Computing, Construction, Small World, Fine Motor, Investigation, Art, Sand and Water areas.

The following links will help support your child's learning this half term:

https://www.topmarks.co.uk/Search.aspx?q=suffixes

https://www.phonicsplay.co.uk/resources

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N8wsIajrsZE

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC7sW4j8p7k9D_qRRMUsGqyw

https://www.sats-papers.co.uk/ks1-sats-papers/

Keep updated on ClassDojo and Twitter for photos and pieces of work that we complete!

Need help connecting to our class on DoJo? Follow the link below;

Robins class dojo

Summer 1 - Lila and the Secret of Rain - Medium Term Plan

Year 1 and 2 Summer 1 - Cycle 2.docx

Reminders

Please ensure that you child has a water bottle every day and any of their belongings are named.

Please try to read with your child everyday (at least 3x per week) and record any reading sessions in your child's reading journal. This can just be a date and a signature. Your child will be entered into a half termly raffle every time they read 3x a week so please remember to record any reading in their journal to maximise their chances of winning a voucher/book!

Ensure homework is completed each week and the homework book is in your child's book bag to be collected in every Monday.

Please also encourage your child to access TTRockstars 3x per week (for 10 - 15 minutes a time). This will have a great impact on their times tables recall.

PE kit to be worn on Thursday and Friday.

Thank you

If you have any questions or messages please either email on our class email address which is teacher.robins@ranelaghprimary.net or on Class Dojo.