Welcome back to another packed half term, Class 2 people. For the next few weeks, much of our learning will be linked to the theme "Out of this World", and we will be working as historians and scientists to find out as much as we can about the lunar landings and about what the moon in particular is like. We will be considering how the moon affects the Earth, and will be exploring the idea of cycles of time, such as days, months and years, as well as the turning of the tides and the changing of the seasons. We will be building electrical circuits to power our control panels, exploring the forces needed to achieve lift off for our very own mini rockets and looking at why streamlining is so important, through a range of construction opportunities. Our writing will focus on the contexts that we are exploring across the curriculum, as well as continuing to develop key skills in spelling, punctuation, grammar and handwriting. Our learning in maths will focus on the connective model and on making links and seeing the relationships between the 4 operations, looking at them in a range of contexts and with a range of models and images. We will be endeavouring wherever possible to respond to the children's interests and questions, as well as matters of local, national and global interest as and when they arise. In other learning, we will be exploring why bread is such an important part of life all around the world, both as a staple in our diet and as a religious symbol. We will be tasting, evaluating and baking bread and thinking about why it is so widespread and so varied. We will no longer be swimming, but we will be taking part in daily physical activity and frequent formal PE and the children will need their PE kits in school every day. As always, we'd love to have you in class either to help with something you are particularly interested in or skilled at or to listen to readers. It can be a great way to find out more about what and how your children are learning(particularly useful when it comes to maths!), and a fantastic opportunity to see them in a different context. If you can help out regularly, or would be interested in coming to join in with one specific event, please do get in touch via the office.