Autumn 1

Welcome back everybody! It’s fantastic to welcome the children back after summer and there is a superb atmosphere around school. We do hope you and your family managed to have a brilliant break over the summer and that you managed to recharge your batteries. 

We would like to take this opportunity to welcome you and your child to Class 7! For those of you who may not know me, I am Mark Holmes and I will be your child’s teacher for the next academic year alongside Jenny Leap. Anne Fothergill, Louise Hickey and Alison Porter will be supporting us in Class 7. Anne will teach the class on a Wednesday afternoon. Jenny will team teach Literacy with me and will take either the year 3s or 4s for both Spelling and Maths. We will alternate which year group we teach so that we teach all the children throughout the year. The children have made an excellent start to the year and have settled into our classroom routines brilliantly.  We have really enjoyed getting to know the children so far and we know this year is going to be amazing! We have a superb year ahead of us and we can’t wait to begin exploring the topics we have lined up for the year with the children.

This curriculum newsletter will tell you all about the units and areas of learning being covered in this first half term. All the children will be learning the same topics but will cover the specific year group expectations for Year 3 and Year 4. Our first topic is called ‘How did Britain change from the Stone Age to the Iron Age?’ and many of our subjects will relate to this.

Ukulele lessons will begin on Thursday 11th September and the children will be taught by Harry Westall from the Lancashire Music Service. A permission letter has been sent home to allow your child to use a school ukulele and to bring it home to practice with. Please return this to us as soon as possible.