Falcons

Welcome to the Falcon Class 2024-2025!

Hello and welcome to the Falcon's class page.

Mrs Bower is the class teacher supported by Mrs Thompson who is the teaching assistant for the Falcons. We are both really excited to be working with you this year, sharing and celebrating the progress and achievements of the wonderful children in our care.

PE:

In the Autumn term, children go swimming every Wednesday and do PE with our sports coach on a Thursday. We please ask for children to leave their PE kit in school until the end of the half term when it will be returned to wash.

READING:

Reading books will be changed on a Tuesday and Friday, but please send bookbags into school every day. An additional Friday 10 minutes playtime is awarded to those children who read at least three times over the course of a week.

HOMEWORK:

Homework will be issued on Friday and should be returned the following Friday.

WATER BOTTLES:

Please send children to school with a water bottle every day. We are a healthy school, so water only please (no fruit juice or flavoured water)

Autumn Term Curriculum 2024

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Spring Term Curriculum 2025

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Summer Term Curriculum 2025

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Hawkeye Falconry Experience

Testing different boat designs

World Book Day - Visiting Illustrator James Brown

Twelfth Night Shakespeare Dance Workshop

Week commencing 29th January 2024

This week we continued to read a brilliant non-fiction book called An Amazing Animal Atlas of Scotland, which covers all of the different habitats in Scotland and the animals that live there. Using the information from the book we created our own fact files of some of these amazing animals and habitats.

In Maths we have been exploring money by recognising coins and notes, making totals using different coins and solving simple word problems. We also had an exciting morning riding on the Calverton Connection using our simple sketch maps to locate things in the local area as well as spotting various types of housing, industry and leisure facilities.

A bus ride around our local area

Welcome back to the Spring Term!

Week commencing 8th January 2024

'Would you rather live in Calverton or the Isle of Coll?'

This week we started to read a story from the Katie Morag series which is set on the Hebridean Isle of Coll (known as the Isle of Struay in the stories). Over the course of this term we will be comparing life on Coll to that of Calverton with the aim of making an informed judgement to answer the above question by the end of our learning journey.

In Maths, we've been identifying 2D and 3D shapes along with counting the number of sides and vertices.

STARS OF THE WEEK:

School Value: READY

Archie & Rufus:

Both boys were awarded a READY wristband for demonstrating an every growing 'readiness' to learn. Well done boys - Keep up the super work!

Week Commencing 20th November 2023

Christmas Experience at St Wilfrid's Church Calverton 20.11.2023

Week Commencing 13th November 2023

What a busy week we've had!

It's been Anti-Bullying week, a few children took part in an inter school gymnastics activity on Tuesday, we've all had CPR training (Wednesday) and on Friday we celebrated Pudsey Bear day by wearing spots!

In addition to all this exciting learning, the children have continued to read our class story 'Goldilocks and the three crocodiles' researching facts about crocodiles to make a fact file. I wonder if they can remember any interesting facts to tell you?

In Maths, we've been learning to add and subtract using the formal column method (not crossing the ten). Homework consolidates this concept.

In RE, we've been learning about the Hindu festival of light Diwali and it's many associated traditions.

STARS OF THE WEEK:

Amelie

Isabella

CPR Training

Week Commencing 6th November 2023

Welcome back to the first week of our new half term. It was wonderful to welcome so many of you into the classroom for our 'Traditional Tales' reading morning. I know this was very special for the children - Thank you!

Our new class text this week is an alternative traditional tale called 'Goldilocks and the three crocodiles'. The children are thoroughly enjoying this version and have been using their prior knowledge of the tale to make predictions as well as onomatopoeias to describe the sound of the sea.

In Maths, we have been finding ten more and ten less than a given number as well as adding and subtracting across ten.

We've also learnt about Remembrance day and made poppies to commemorate the lives lost during the First World War.

Finally, the children enjoyed sharing their half term homework projects during 'celebration assembly'. It was wonderful to see so many different models, pictures, and projects. Many thanks for taking the time to support your child with this task.

THIS WEEK STARS OF THE WEEK:

Kiyah-Mae

Evie-Rose

Week Commencing 16th October 2023

This week we finished reading the class text 'The tin forest' and created our own alternative version using time connectives, expanded noun phrases and conjunctions.

In Maths we've been using our number bonds to add and subtract across a ten. This is really tricky concept and requires sound knowledge of number bonds to 10.

In Science, we learnt about the Scottish Scientist Charles Macintosh who invented the waterproof mac by sandwiching a type of rubber between material also known as a 'rubber sandwich'

Following this, the children then investigated if they could waterproof paper. We tested various methods with a clear outcome.

I wonder if the children can tell you the result of this fascinating investigation?

STARS OF THE WEEK ARE:

Megan

Eli

Week Commencing 9th October 2023

This week we've started to read our new class text 'The Tin Forest'. A wonderful book about a man who lives in a place near nowhere and close to forgotten that was filled with all the things that no one wanted. The children are really enjoying the text and have been using their imagination to describe what a tin forest would look like.

On Tuesday it was our Harvest Festival in church and we really enjoyed sharing our learning with you. Thank you to everyone who came along - we hope you enjoyed it as much as we did!

In Maths, we have been using our knowledge of number bonds to add and subtract by making ten

STARS OF THE WEEK:

Arthur

Terri-Louise

Week Commencing 2nd October 2023

Preparation for next week's Harvest Festival has been the focus of this week's literacy work. The class have used expanded noun phrases to describe harvest produce, before creating a class poem which we're looking forward to sharing with you in church on Tuesday.

In Maths we've continued to count in 2s. 5s. 10s and 3s as well as consolidate number bonds to 10 and 20.

In art we have created harvest pictures using felt tip pens and a water wash.

We hope you can join us for our Harvest festival as we look forward to sharing this week's learning with you then.

Stars of the week

Poppy and Kendall: For excellent concentration and effort in class - well done girls!

Week Commencing 25th September 2023

Our learning of the The Great fire of London has raged on this week starting with an exciting re-enactment with the Partake Theatre company on Monday. The children had lots of fun taking on the various historical roles and the lesson really embedded key knowledge. (photo's to follow)

In addition to this we have been reading Vlad and the Great Fire of London in which a flea tells the story of the fire from his perspective. The children have enjoyed asking and writing questions for Vlad and will be retelling the story next week.

In Science, we have been investigating friction, to discover which material would make the best firefighter's boot. We also linked this to last weeks learning and the need for the material to be waterproof.

Maths this week has focused on ordering numbers and counting in 2s, 5s, and 10s.

Please use the links below to access online songs to support this learning.

STARS OF THE WEEK

Clemmie: For excellent concentration and continued hard work, keep it up!

Lucas: For his readiness to learn and contribution to group activities - Well done!

Week Commencing 18th September 2023

What another busy week we've had!

The class are really enjoying discovering facts and writing about the Great Fire of London. This week, we've learnt about the importance of Samuel Pepys and his famous diary. We've learnt how his diary was an important historical artefact which provided the facts about the fire which we know today. With this in mind, we've pretended to be Samuel Pepys and write a letter to King Charles II in the present tense, explaining how the city is on fire and requesting help to stop the fire from spreading.

In Science, we had lots of fun carrying out an investigation to see if we could stop leaky buckets to help put the fire out! We tested different materials to see how waterproof or absorbent they are.

In Art, we've been learning about Christopher Wren and the architecture he designed including Saint Pauls Cathedral.

In Maths, we've been plotting numbers on a number line and estimating where numbers will be by looking at the various integers.

There's still a few children without PE kits in school. Please can these be sent into school and remain here until half term to ensure all children are wearing the appropriate clothing on PE days - Thank you for your help with this.

This week's stars of the week are:

Honey: For fantastic concentration - Keep up the super work!

Caben: For High Expectations! An amazing start to Year 2!

Week Commencing 11th September 2023

This week the children have been eager to begin learning about our class topic The Great Fire of London. We have started to read a wonderful book about this historical event exploring how the fire started and what London was like back in the 17th Century.

In English, we have researched London today including many of it's famous landmarks and used adjectives and high quality vocabulary to create a poster to encourage tourism to the capital.

In Science, we have started to look at the properties of certain materials and why some materials are better suited to certain uses e.g. glass windows so that we can see out.

In Maths, we've been partitioning numbers to 100 in different ways building on our prior knowledge of tens and ones.

Our Stars of the week are:

Aiden and Ted: For excellent readiness to work, independence and concentration -

A great start to Year 2 boys, keep up the super work!

Week Commencing 5th September 2023

What a wonderful first week we've had in the Falcons!

The children have quickly settled into their new class and have been full of exciting news to share about their summer holidays.

This week we've been exploring our emotions in a class book called 'In my Heart'. We've looked at how throughout a day or week, we feel many different emotions and that all our emotions are important. To support this work we've create an emotional check in wall where the children can identify and let others know how they are feeling without having to explicitly talk about it. We've also looked at ways in which we can support our friends during these different times.