St Peter’s Primary School, Devizes
A Church of England Aided School

Class 2

Class Teacher: Mrs Olivia MacInnes - Year 1 / Year 2
Subject leader Literacy

Welcome back to a new term, our last in our old school building.

Our topic this term is going to be Wonderful Water. We are going to use a study of the canal as a way of linking our old school site to our new school. We will be visiting the new school and taking walks along the canal, in the second half of term. As part of our topic and upcoming move, we will be exploring the history of the old school building. If any of the children’s’ parents or even grandparents, went to St. Peter’s School, we would love to collect some records and artefacts together. It would be wonderful to be able to talk with some former pupils as well about how the school has changed over the years.
Please let us know if you know of anyone who would be willing to come in to talk with the children. Thank you.

Homework will still be sent out on Wednesdays to be returned by the following Monday

Reading -The most important homework the children can do, is lots of reading.

Spellings - weekly spellings to learn, for a test on Mondays.

The Homework sheet may also contain any other class information for the following week. Please could you sign the bottom of the homework sheet to show that you have seen the information. All your hard work from last term is making a real difference.

Thank you for all your help with this.

Things to bring to school

P.E. kit- please have in school every day. PE this term will be on Tuesdays and Thursdays.
They also need water bottles in school so that they can have drinks during the day.

A summary of our learning this term:

Literacy: Traditional Tales involving water (Little Mermaid, Billy Goats Gruff, Gingerbread Man) The Light house Keeper’s Lunch Patterned sea poems Instructions and dictionaries	Maths: To sort, group and count shells and treasure. To start to understand multiplication and division. Capacity and measuring distance along the canal. Directional and positional language using maps. Doubles and halves and fractions.
Science: Reflection and symmetry (Maths link) Forms of water (ice, steam etc.). Waterproof materials Forces (pushing and pulling – canal boats etc.) Electricity	Design and Technology: Look at the design process for the new school. Design new logos Build model barges Design and make a quilt of the canal Decorating plant pots/ canal art Sketch old and new school buildings
ICT: Taking photos of the old school Making sea pictures with Revelation Natural Art E safety	Geography and History: History of the school Location and maps of routes to the two schools Transport History
R.E.: Special Places (symbols of old school) Visiting Devizes churches Belonging to a community	Music: Musical stories based on pirates, the sea, a trip along the canal Sea shanties
P.E.: Gymnastics Different ways of travelling along the floor and apparatus	PSHE: Going for goals (learning to learn) Good to be me (self esteem and skills)

To see archives of Class 2's work prior to January 2012 click here.

St Peter’s Primary School, Devizes A Church of England Aided School

St Peter’s Primary School, Devizes
A Church of England Aided School