Class Pages

Reading Our Class Text and Comprehension In term 1, our reading comprehension will be based upon the text ‘Wilfred Gordon McDonald Partridge’ by Mem Fox. This text is about a young boy who lives next door to a retirement home and who befriends some of the residents. The residents are all very unique and endearing. […]

We will learn about timelines and how to mark significant events along a timeline for ourselves. We will discuss and draw family trees to represent our own family and learn about the people who have lived before us. We will learn in-depth knowledge about life for a child in the 1950s and consider how this

Our topic for Geography this term is ‘Our Wonderful World’ which introduces children to the concepts of maps. We will learn about the physical and human geographical features of our local area and conduct a geographical enquiry. They will learn the four countries that make up the United Kingdom and compare different types of settlements

This term out topic is ‘Childhood’, we will learn about everyday life and families today, including comparisons with child hood in the 1950s. We will start by learning about the concept of ‘the past’ and leanr how to represent significant stages along a timeline. We will learn about autobiographies and we will write our own

Darwin Class Term 5 and 6 Resources

Darwin Class Term 3 and 4 Resources (Year 2)

Darwin Class Term 1 and 2 Resources

Term 5: Swing Along with Shostakovich  They will explore how beats are grouped and will devise their own body percussion patterns to demonstrate this. They will begin to identify different metres in familiar songs. Finally, the children will be invited to move freely and creatively to two pieces from Shostakovich’s Jazz suites, each in a different

Following the GetSet4PE scheme of learning, our Physical Education (PE) lessons for term 5 and 6 our focus will be on cricket and rounders (striking and fielding) and athletics. PE lessons will be on Mondays and Wednesdays; children can wear their PE into school on both of these days. Striking and Fielding In this unit,