What a wonderful start we’ve had to Year 2! The children are settling in well and are beginning to get used to the new routines of Year 2. They have enjoyed getting to know new friends and their teachers, and have loved being able to meet all of their friends across Year 2 at playtimes and lunchtimes. We have also been lucky enough to have had two Year Group worships where we were all able to meet in the hall and see each other in person rather than on a screen. A further excitement, was being able to sing together; something we have all missed and really enjoyed!

We have begun our new topic, ‘Beauty Inside and Out‘, where we have started with the geography part of our topic work by learning about our local area. So far, we have explored inside our school grounds and located features of our school grounds on aerial photographs and maps. Later, in the half term, we will have a ‘mini trip’ out around Hatch Warren to explore the beauty in our local environment and to complete our mapwork. We will also link in our science work on materials, and carry out investigations on the properties of materials, to pick the most suitable materials for items that we need to take on our trip with us. Please see our Knowledge Organiser and Topic Web below for more details: 

Year 2 Beauty Inside and Out Topic Web

Year 2 Knowledge Organiser Autumn 1

A couple of notes: 

• Homework will be set on Google Classroom in your child’s class. This will begin on Friday 17th September and children will be given a week to complete it. This will be a mixture of Numbots, BugClub and maths/reading tasks.
• Work for children who are isolating (but well enough to complete work) will be found on the Year 2 page of Google Classroom. Please note that we will get this online as quickly as we can once we are aware of your circumstances.
• PE starts on Wednesday 15th September for Year 2- the children should come into school in their PE kit each Wednesday.
• Children will be issued with reading books each week and will visit the library each week to pick a library book on a Monday.
• RWI book bag books matched to each child’s phonic learning will come home from Monday 20th September, once we have begun our RWI lessons. These lessons will be in addition to our whole class phonics sessions that are already happening twice each day. 
• Please make sure your child’s reading books are in school everyday so that they can be read with. 
• Please make sure that children bring a coat into school each day as the weather is very changeable and we do our best to get outside as much as possible even on wet days.

We have all really enjoyed our first week back and look forward to getting to know both you and the children better in the coming weeks. Please do not hesitate to contact us if you have any questions or concerns, using the year group email: year2@stmarksce.org.uk

Thanks for your support, 

Mrs Rosso, Miss Burgess, Mrs Brackenridge and Mrs Tickle

Welcome back to school and the beginning of Year 6!

What a successful start to the year so far! It has been wonderful to see the children settle into their new classes so quickly and enjoy being able to play with their friends from the other classes as we reunited as a whole year group bubble!

We have begun our brand new topic ‘Ola Brazil!’, a geography based topic studying the diverse and unique culture of Brazil. On Tuesday, the children certainly had a taste of Brazil as we tried some of the country’s favourite foods: pineapple, mango, bananas and brigadeiro (Brazilian Chocolate Truffles!) This was a welcomed treat after decorating Carnival masks for our bright and beautiful display board where lots of our work this half term will be celebrated.

Just a little reminder that PE begins next Wednesday 15th September and they need to come into school in their PE kits. Please also remind your children to come into school with raincoats each day as this morning’s shower certainly caught a lot of them by surprise!

Please find our Knowledge Organiser and Curriculum Information for this half term below.

Y6 Curriculum Information

Y6 Knowledge Organiser

We are looking forward to a wonderful year with our superstar Year 6 children! If you have any questions throughout the year, please feel free to email year6@stmarksce.org.uk

Many thanks,
Mrs Silvester, Mrs Chapman and Miss Barnett

We have had a great start to Year 3 and the children have settled quickly into their new classrooms. On Monday, we started the day with a letter from Mr Blake. During the holidays he had discovered a possible site that would be of interest to archaeologists, so asked if we could help him and become archaeologists. We started by learning all about our new role and then headed to the site to complete our dig. We had to be very careful as the artefacts we found looked extremely old. Once we were back in the classroom, we examined what we had found and then decided to send away the items to the lab at the official Forensic Archaeological Society.

On Wednesday, we received a thank you letter and they confirmed the artefacts we found were very old, and were from the year 5432BCE. We then completed an activity to make a timeline (Using a toilet roll) to help us understand just how long ago the Stone Age was.

The children will be bringing home a copy of our Knowledge Organiser for this half term. Our project is called ‘Dig and Discover’ and will be History led. We have also attached our topic web for you to see what your child will be learning this half term.

Knowledge Organiser – Dig and Discover
Dig and Discover topic web

A couple of notes:

• Homework will be set on google classroom in your child’s class
• Isolating work can be found in the Year 3 isolating classroom – please note we will get this online as soon we are aware of your circumstances
• Children have been issued with their reading books – we have use of the main library on Tuesday’s and Year 3/4 library on Tuesdays and Thursdays
• PE starts next week and is Friday – the children will come to school in PE kit
• Don’t forget that your child can bring fruit for playtimes, please be aware that they only have 15 minutes for morning play so, one piece of fruit is more than enough

If you have any concerns or questions please don’t hesitate to contact us on year3@stmarksce.org.uk

Have a lovely weekend,

Mrs Boyle, Mrs Spiers, Miss Crow and Miss Tamblyn