Chestnut Class
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Miss Bowsher Class Teacher |
Miss Bartlett Teaching Assistant |
Welcome to Chestnut Class
Hello and a big warm welcome to our Chestnut Class page!
We are a happy and hardworking mixed-age class full of curiosity, kindness, and creativity. From our enthusiastic Year 3s to our fantastic Year 6s, we’re proud to be a class that supports each other, learns together, and always tries our best.
This year is going to be filled with exciting learning, big ideas, laughter, and lots of memorable moments. Whether we’re exploring new topics, challenging ourselves in Maths, diving into great books, or getting creative, we’ll be doing it all with smiles on our faces and a sense of adventure in our hearts. Keep checking this page to see what we’ve been up to!
What are we doing in Autumn 2?
We’re so pleased to be back after a refreshing October half term! The classroom is buzzing with energy as we dive into a very exciting and festive few weeks ahead. With Christmas just around the corner, we have a jam-packed calendar full of joyful activities and meaningful learning experiences.
This term, we’re embracing the festive season with lots of Christmas-themed activities. We’re busy practising our Christmas carols, preparing decorations to share with our local community, and getting ready for our upcoming Open Day. We’re also looking forward to welcoming parents into the classroom to celebrate the children’s work and progress.
In the Classroom
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Science: We’re exploring the fascinating world of electricity;learning how circuits work, identifying electrical components, and understanding how electricity powers our everyday lives. The children are enjoying hands-on investigations and developing their scientific thinking.
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English: Our focus is on biographies, using the inspiring Little People, Big Dreams series. These beautifully illustrated books introduce us to incredible role models from history and today, helping us understand how to structure and write our own biographies.
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Reading: Alongside our English work, we’re diving deeper into the Little People, Big Dreams books and enjoying a wide range of texts to broaden our reading experience and develop comprehension skills.
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Maths:
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Year 5 and 6 are tackling fractions-learning how to compare, simplify, and calculate with them.
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Year 4 are strengthening their times tables knowledge, building speed and confidence.
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Year 3 are mastering addition and subtraction using the column method, with a focus on accuracy and understanding place value.
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RE: We’re asking big questions like “Where do our morals come from?” and exploring different perspectives and beliefs to help us reflect on our own values.
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PSHE: Our theme is Health and Wellbeing, with a special focus on developing a growth mindset-encouraging resilience, positivity, and self-belief in all areas of life.
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History: We’re continuing our journey through Ancient Egypt, having already explored the symbolism of the Eye of Horus and used atlases to locate Egypt. The children are captivated by the mysteries and marvels of this ancient civilisation.
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Music: We’re learning to play the glockenspiel, developing rhythm, coordination, and musical expression through fun and engaging lessons.
Looking like a lovely term! :)
Learning: Curriculum
For more information about what the children will be learning this year, please see on our overview on the long term plan in the documents at the bottom of the page.
General information for term 1
PE
Our PE days are currently:
Wednesdays- Outdoor learning kit
Thursdays- Gymnastics Mr Kiely
Homework
In Key Stage 2 we actively encourage students to complete home learning with care and consistency it is set on a Friday 3:20pm and is due in by 9am the following Friday.
Homework comprises of a set of online tasks: weekly spellings set on Spellingshed and times tables set on TTRockstars. The children will be practicing the timestables that best suits their learning and the number of games required will depend on accuracy and speed.
Your child will have a login sheet that they can use to remember their passwords. Please encourage your child to organise their time themselves. Spelling tests will be done on a Friday.
Being a fluent reader when reading out loud is really important for self-esteem, especially when the children move up to secondary school and need to read aloud in class. Please find time to hear your child read at least three times a week. Reading magazines, newspapers, websites and recipes are also all good sources of reading material as well as much-loved reading books. When you have heard your child read then please sign their reading record.
An optional creative homework is also set in the second week of term and it is due in on the week before the half term. This allows an enthusiastic child to show off what they can do and give an opportunity to share it with their teacher and their classmates in a celebration. Please find this term's copy in the documents below.
Teacher cover in class
Children this term, will have outdoor learning every Wednesday afternoon. PE cover Thursday afternoon.
