Vulcan Class

Vulcan

Nativity 2025

Useful information:

PE is on Monday just for this half term

Outdoor Learning is on Friday

Maths homework is set on Fridays to be completed by Mondays

Welcome back to the Summer Term.  Hopefully everyone has had a good Easter break and is returning to school full of energy and enthusiasm.

The Curriculum: 

Our History focus for this term is Why do we remember Amelia Earhart? Here are the enquiry questions we will be answering over the term. 

 Who was Amelia Earhart and why was she famous? 

How have humans learnt to fly? (Chronology of flight through history until modern day) 

What were the main ups and downs in Amelia’s life? 

Why was Amelia so keen to fly when so few women at the time were interested? 

What happened to Amelia Earhart on her final flight? 

What was Amelia’s greatest achievement and how should it be remembered? 

Why is flying important in the Rissingtons? (Local history focus – RAF base)  

Alongside this in Science we will be finding out all about what grows and how to look after these plants.  We will begin by planting some beans and watching them grow over time. Throughout the summer term, we will learn how to look after our plants. We will also be learning about how to keep healthy and what humans need to survive. 

In English, we will be linking our work to our history question. We will be writing some adventure stories using our inspiration of Amelia Earhart, then we will be writing diaries and instructions. Year 2 will continue with daily spelling with the jungle club lessons and as always there will be daily reading and handwriting practice throughout the summer term.

Maths this term will be consolidating all four operations, fractions, time, statistics, position and direction.

The summer term sees us in summer uniform, which should comprise of a school blue polo-t-shirt, grey shorts, trousers, summer dresses in blue check; black/dark coloured school shoes.  As usual in the second half of the summer term, we start to think about moving on to our new classes and we will be doing lots of activities to prepare us for this.   

Our PE day is Tuesday:  Our focus is Invasion Games – In this unit, pupils develop their understanding of the principles of defending and attacking for invasion games. They use and develop skills such as sending and receiving with both feet and hands, as well as dribbling with both feet and hands. They have the opportunity to play uneven and even sided games. They learn how to score points in these types of games and learn to play to the rules. We will also be preparing for Sports Day with athletics.  It is important that your child comes to school in appropriate and correct PE kit.  Summer PE kit should comprise:  blue t-shirt, shorts/skort, long socks and suitable outdoor training shoes.  Sun cream and a hat is also required as most of our PE will be outside. Forest school sessions will continue to run on Fridays, although PE kit should be worn, children must ensure they have a long sleeve top and trousers to cover their arms and legs during the session. These can be brought in a bag and children can change just before the lesson. This is for their safety to limit cuts and scratches from the natural resources.

Homework Please read as much as possible with your child/ren every day and complete the reading record for your class teacher/TA to see.  A maths activity on Mathletics will continue to be set on a Friday. Year 2 will start their multiplication quick recall test on a Friday (separate information has been emailed to parents about this already).

optional key stage 1 tests information for parents.pdf