SYCAMORE CLASS

YEARs 2 and 3

Miss milner

2025-26

Autumn Term

Welcome to our class page! Hopefully you will find this page useful. On our class page we have details of our topics for this half term as well as other useful information about Sycamore Class and websites that we use to help our learning. We love to share what we learn in school every day, so please follow us on our Facebook page to see what we get up to on a daily basis.

Miss Milner

What will we be learning about this half term?

English

1^st half term - Taking Flight (animation)

2^nd half term- Fantastic Mr Fox by Roald Dahl, The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe by CS Lewis

Maths

Place Value, Addition and Subtraction, Multiplication and Division A

R.E.

1^st half term - What is it like for someone to follow God?

2^nd half term - What is the Trinity and why is it important for Christians?

Science

1st half term - Rocks, Soils and Fossils

2nd half term - Health and Movement

History - 1st half term

Who were Britain’s first builders? (Stone Age, to Iron Age)

Geography - 2nd half term

Countries of the World

Art - 1st half term

Stone age art

DT - 2nd half term

Mechanical systems – levers and linkages

P.E.

1st half term - Football and Yoga

2nd half term - Gymnastics, Dance, Forest School

See below for PE days

Music

Ukulele lesson

French

1st half term - Getting to know you

2nd half term - All about me

PSHE / RSE

1st half term - Being in my World

2nd half term - Celebrating difference

Computing

1st half term - Route Explorers

2nd half term - The Internet, Creating Pictures

Key information

Arrival/collection

Our arrival time each morning is 8.45-9.00am and we leave at 3.15pm.

What to bring to school

The children should bring in a water bottle which they will take home each day as well as their packed lunch (if they do not receive a school lunch). They do not need any other equipment such as pencil cases, stationary etc as they will have everything they need at their own desk.

Snacks

Children are allowed to bring a ‘healthy’ snack to school for breaktime. However, this must be either a piece of fruit or breakfast/cereal bar. Thank you for your cooperation.

PE days

Our PE days are:

1st half term - Tuesday (Football), Friday (Yoga)

2nd half term - Tuesday (Gymnastics), Thursday (Dance), Friday(Forest School)

On these days, the children should come into school wearing their PE kit. They do not need to bring in their normal school uniform to get changed into, they will just stay in their PE kit all day. PE kit consists of: trainers, white PE t-shirt, purple shorts or plain black tracksuit bottoms, purple hoodie or purple school jumper.

When participating in forest school sessions on a Friday afternoon (2nd half term) your child must wear their PE kit (no shorts) and sturdy boots.

Homework

Spellings

Spellings will be posted on Class Dojo each week. It would be great if the children completed fun activities at home and we will be learning these spellings in class throughout the week.

www.ictgames.com/mobilePage/spookySpellings/index.html

www.ictgames.com/littleBirdSpelling

Year 3 and Year 4 Common Exception Words

Reading

The children are encouraged to read a variety of texts at home and share a love of reading with parents. Try to read Accelerated Reader/ Home Reading Books at least 3x per week. Remember to bring your Accelerated Reader book back into school each day. There will be an opportunity to change library books every Friday.

Times tables

Try to practise your times tables 3x per week. Suggested websites and apps to help to practise times tables include:

https://www.timestables.co.uk

www.topmarks.co.uk/maths-games/hit-the-button