Welcome to Class 2E!

Mr Phillips (full-time)

Miss Barker (Monday)

Mrs White (Tuesday)

Mrs Murray (Wednesday, Thursday, Friday)

jphillips@arnoldmill.notts.sch.uk

jbarker@arnoldmill.notts.sch.uk

cwhite@arnoldmill.notts.sch.uk

jmurray@arnoldmill.notts.sch.uk

On behalf of all the adults and pupils, welcome to our class.

Key Reminders

• We arrive at school at 8.50am. We finish at 3.30pm.
• Mondays and Thursdays are our PE days.
• Spellings and spelling homework is given (and tested) every week on Fridays with house points awarded for full marks or outstanding effort.
• Practice your times tables on Times Table Rockstars each week. Focus on the tables you do not know or are unsure about. If you are a times table master you still need to practice to keep your skills sharp!.
• Tables are tested weekly with house points given to children who improve on their previous scores. 
• Please use Microsoft Teams for the most current updates. Your child will have a login.

Reading

• We aim for every child to read at least three times a week, and in 2E, for the childrens' sakes, we very much see this as a minimum. Please sign planners, once you have heard your child read. If your child is a fluent reader, they can read independently and get an adult to sign their diary to confirm this. We want to be reading champions every week so please help us as much as possible. 
• Also, every time your child reads three times in one week, they will  get a square marked off on their challenge board at the back of their reading diary. An adult in school will sign and date this square. We will reward your child with reading pins (bronze, silver and gold) as they accumulate the required amount of squares.
• A fun and worthwhile strategy is to share a reading session, perhaps taking a paragraph or page each. That way, your child hears a model reader!

Summer term learning 

During the Summer term, our main topic is called, ‘Earth and Beyond’. In geography, they will develop map skills and look at locating and using more complex map skills. We will also look at Biomes and different areas of the globe. We will go onto look at mountain and volcano formation. 

In science, the children will be looking at forces and how they act on an object. We will then go on to look at the solar system and planets around us. 

In R.E., the children will look at significant people. We will then link this to our art learning and create pop art about a significant person to us. 

In PE, the children will be focusing on developing skills in competitive games. We will focus on cricket, rounders, tennis and athletics.

Whole School Values

Each month, the whole school will focus on an aspect of British Values.

Children demonstrating behaviour linked to the value of the month can receive a value award in our Shining Star assemblies. 

Educational Links

Children, below, are a selection of educational links that you can use to help you move forward even further in your learning.

Remember to always seek a trusted adult's permission to use the internet, and remember how your have been taught to be safe online.