Spellings Arts week

Please take the time to help your child learn

his/her spellings for the weekly assessment. Week beginning Monday 28th February 2011
Hexthorpe
Learning two new words each evening helps
break the task up. You can use the LOOK,
We will be exploring different careers involving
the arts.
Primary School
SAY, COVER, WRITE, CHECK method.

Parents’ Information
Homework
We hope you are all getting on well with the Leaflet
new homework assignments and that the
children are enjoying choosing and completing
Face painting Sculpture
an activity. Homework tasks are either work in
preparation for, or extensions of, work done in
Years 2, 3 and 4
Have you got a special skill?
class and are decided upon after consultation
Parents are invited to come into school and
with children. It is important that your child
help. Please have a word your child’s class
completes and returns a piece of homework We ask that book bags be
teacher and find out how you can get involved.
each Wednesday (Y2) Friday (Y3, Y4) brought to school every day.
Presentation of homework should be the same School Website
This way your child always has
standard as work done in class. It should be Have you visited the school website recently?
It has been updated and is absolutely his/her spelling list and reading /
named, dated and written neatly in pencil.
fantastic. We would welcome your comments homework diary as they are
Not biro or felt tip
on the improvements as well as any ideas required throughout the week. You
about what you would like to see on it. If you may like to help your child change
PE Kit
have used any educational websites that you his/her book in the morning and
Please ensure your child brings the correct PE
think are good, please let us know so we can write in the diary.
kit on a Monday morning and leaves it at
add them onto our links page.
school as PE times may change over the week.
They need separate trainers for outdoor
games. Indoor PE kit is shorts and a short
sleeved t-shirt. Outdoor includes jogging
bottoms, a t-shirt, a warm jumper and
separate trainers. We do not allow football
Visit us at
boots.
www.hexthorpe.doncaster.sch.uk
Spring Term 2011
What are we learning about in
Y2 this term?
Science: Properties of materials.
Geography: Knowledge of the UK and
wider world.
RE: Christianity and Sikhism.
Art/DT: Nature, modelling, sculpture
using natural or recycled materials.
ICT: Creating pictures, use of roamer,
writing stories.
Music: Music Express scheme. Exploring
pitch.
English
Stories by the same author (Julie Donaldson)
poetry and non fiction texts.
Mathematics
Addition and subtraction, 3D shape and
symmetry, money, multiplication and division,
position, direction and movement, time and
capacity.
What are we learning about in
Y3 this term?
Science: Characteristics of materials,
rocks and soils.
History: The history of cinema.
RE: Special buildings – Christian and
Muslim.
Art/DT: Cross curricular – history and
science.
ICT: Combining text and graphics,
manipulating sound.
Music: Music Express scheme, exploring
rhythmic patterns.
English
Adventure and mystery stories, poetry, authours
and letters.
Mathematics
Counting, partitioning and securing number facts,
understanding shape, measure, handling data.
What are we learning about in
Y4 this term?
Science: Keeping warm, habitats.
Geography: The Amazon rainforest
and climate change.
RE: Pilgrimage, the Easter story.
Art/DT: Art inspired by other
cultures.
ICT: Modelling effects on screen and
branching databases.
Music: Music Express scheme, we will
be using a range of percussion
instruments and rhythms to compose a
Rainforest Rap.
English
Information texts, plays and poetry, stories from
other cultures.
Mathematics
Place value, addition and subtraction, shape and
space, money, measures, multiplication, division,
fractions, decimals, data handling.