In PSHE our first topic is Being Me in My World, followed by Celebrating Differences. We will be exploring the importance of everyone's right to learn and the different ways we can help each other to learn. We will set personal goals for ourselves and reflect on our achievements. We will be exploring the importance of kindness and ensuring our class is a safe and fair place.

To support your child at home please can you:

• Ask your child what their goals for the year are. Share your goals with them too!

• Share this story of Diwali so children understand the celebration as it approaches. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cb8J7S_wRn0

• Watch this introductory video on Sikhism and discuss with your child: https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/articles/zkjpkmn

How you can help at home:

• There are many short video clips on BBC Bitesize about prehistoric periods that you may enjoy watching and discussing with your child.

  https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/topics/z82hsbk

• Visit Burnham Beeches where there is an Iron Age hillfort!

  
  

• If you are up for it, visit one of the prehistoric sites in the UK! Click on this link to discover the sites and plan your trip.

https://www.english-heritage.org.uk/learn/histories/prehistoric-monuments/

After half term we will begin reading The Girl Who Stole an Elephant which follows the journey of a mischievous girl in Sri Lanka whose actions lead to dire consequences for one of her friends. She then embarks on an adventure to rescue him.

How you can help:

• The greatest impact you can have on your child's education is in supporting them to read daily. All of the studies show that children who read daily reach better outcomes than those who don't.

• Please listen to your child read.

• Discuss what they're reading

• Plan visits to the library.

• Ask your class teacher for book recommendations.

• reading and writing numbers to 1000 in digits and words

• understanding the value of each digit in a number (e.g. 127 has 1 hundred, 2 tens and 7 ones or 100+20+7)

• order a set of numbers from smallest to greatest

• compare numbers

  
  

How you can help

• Review how to count in steps of 2, 5 and 10, forwards and backwards (2, 4, 6, 8...)

• Read numbers aloud wherever you go so your child hears how they are read, especially numbers up to 1000

• Begin practising your 3 and 4 times tables

• Support your child with accessing Times Tables Rockstars (TTRS) so they can build up their quick recall of number facts and times tables

·        Comparing how objects move on different surfaces

·        Noticing that some forces need contact between two objects, but magnetic forces can act at a distance

·        Observe how magnets attract or repel each other and attract some materials but not others

·        Compare and group together a variety of everyday materials on the basis of whether they are magnetic or non-magnetic

·        Make predictions on whether two magnets will attract or repel each other depending on which poles are facing

How you can help

·    Access the videos here and watch with your child.

·    Discuss forces and magnets in your day-to-day lives.

·    Make a magnet game at home!

https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/topics/znrp46f

To support your children at home please could you:

Play these songs to support your child with securing Spanish vocabulary for this unit.

• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zpLQSdu4V94

• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OonqrUZCef4&list=RDOonqrUZCef4&start_radio=1

Now that the pupils have the foundational team building skills and ball skills from KS1, they will start learning team games. The first one of the year will be Football wherein they will learn dribbling, passing and receiving and how to create space while keeping possession of the ball.

How you can help at home:

• Encourage your child to practise balances at home to develop their bodily strength.

• Go for a daily walk to build stamina.

• Practise kicking a ball back and forth. As your child becomes more confident, increase the distance between you.

Wednesday 9th September - Lost property - Second Hand Shop - 3.30pm

Friday 11th September - Walk Around The Globe Day - 2.50pm for Upper Primary & 3.00pm for Lower Primary

Tuesday 15th September - Parent Meet the teacher & Curriculum Meeting Year 3 & 4 - 2.30pm- School Hall

Wednesday 23rd September - School Individual & Sibling Photographs

Wednesday 23rd September - Lost Property Second Hand Shop: 3.15-3.45pm

Friday 25th September - Whole School Flu Immunisations: 8am-3pm

Friday 25th September - Macmillan Coffee Afternoon: 2pm-3.30pm

Tuesday 29th September - New Comers Curriculum Meeting - English: 3.40-4.20pm

Wednesday 30th September - Lost Property - Parents to claim: 3.15-3.45pm

Wednesday 7th October - Lost property - Second hand shop

The parent newsletter is sent out, via email, on Mondays. Please read this every week for the most recent updates on events.

At Wexham, we believe that our school and your home must form a partnership to help your child grow and develop to their fullest potential.

Please do not hesitate to get in contact with us if you have any concerns, questions or you would like any guidance on ways to support your child. 

The best way to do this is via TEAMs. All children have a login and password and have access to their class Teams page. Check this on a daily basis as we will use the class page to communicate any key information.

Your child's class teacher is available on TEAMs from 8am until 4:30pm. If you send messages after this time, they will be responded to the following day. Please also note that during the day, the teachers will be teaching and may not be able to respond. Any urgent information (e.g. about collection on the day) should go through the school office.

The parent newsletter is sent out, via email, on Mondays. Please read this every week as it often contains key dates and details that you need.

We often have physical letters that need to be sent home with the children so please make it part of your routine to check their bags at the end of the school day for any of these.

This term we will be writing creative stories. We will start by learning the story The Magician's Shop. During this we will be encouraging children to create a setting description using adjectives. We will also ensure children are punctuating sentences correctly using full stops and capital letters consistently.

After half term we will be writing a tale of fear based on the story, Piper.

How you can help:

Please find the story of The Magician's Shop on Teams and play it for your child to orally rehearse the story.

• You can ask your child to write down the sentences from the story.

• Encourage them to sound out words that they find tricky, put finger spaces between words and punctuate the sentences correctly.

• Remind them to read back their sentences to check if they've made any errors.

Art: In art this term the children will be exploring prehistoric art and recreating the style of cave artists using charcoal and natural pigments.

DT: In DT this term the children will be exploring pneumatic systems, then apply this understanding to design and make a pneumatic toy including thumbnail sketches and exploded diagrams. This will link nicely to their learning of Forces in Science.

To support your child at home please can you...

• Ask your child to create some "cave paintings" with pencil and paper at home.

• Point out pneumatic systems all around you - gas canisters, bicycle bumps, vacuum cleaners, etc.

• Play the composer of the week in the Parent Newsletter.

Homework is important because it reinforces learning, develops essential skills and fosters independence, ultimately supporting academic success and personal growth.

• the meaning of the text

• key vocabulary

• sentence structures and language patterns

• connectives and story flow

• important events and sequencing

The actions act as memory prompts and help children retain the structure of the text so that they can retell it confidently and fluently, providing a strong foundation for innovation and independent writing.