Hawthorn

Welcome to Hawthorn

Welcome to Hawthorn Class. My name is Mrs Wainman and along with Ms Monks we hope you have a great time in Hawthorn class. Ms Smart will cover on a Wednesday afternoon.

We have lots of exciting things to do in class this year. Just check out our curriculum jigsaws.

We will also beginning our Spanish curriculum with Mrs Townley once a week.

Should you need to contact us please use the email address below. Please remember no question is silly especially if it stops your child worrying. We will get back to you ASAP

hawthornhomelearning@st-margarets.bury.sch.uk

Friday 27th November

It's Friday again !!!

We had a lovely afternoon decorating the school Christmas tree today. It looks beautiful. I'm sure the Christmas fairies will soon be busy decorating your homes.

We managed to complete the phonic screening today as well. All the children have done brilliantly and you should be really proud. So you will be glad to know I will stop sending the phonic sheets out.

A few children have asked for a class list to send Christmas cards. This will be given out on Monday. However, the children can only bring their cards in from Monday 7th December . They will then have to be in school for 72 hours before we give them out. (probably the week after) It is very strange times we are living in. 

A quick reminder your child will need a cardboard egg box for the last week of term . We are aiming to make Egg Box Dragons.

Have a lovely weekend ,

See you on Monday.

Mrs W

Homework

Handwriting: to be completed by Thursday.

Spelling : to be returned Wednesday

Maths : to be handed in on Monday

Next week:

In maths

data handling

• Draw and interpret a tally chart
• Draw and interpret a block graph
• Label a block graph correctly
• Draw and label a pictogram

In english:

We shall be starting our book 'Adventures of Egg Box Dragon' and over the half term we will be covering the following aims.

• To engage children with a story with which they will empathise.
• To explore themes and issues, and develop and sustain ideas through discussion, enabling children to make connections with their own lives.
• To develop creative responses to the text through responding to reading, drama and artwork.
• To write in role in order to explore and develop empathy for a character.
• To write with confidence for real purposes and audiences

PS Please remember that PE is on Monday and Tuesday and your child will need their PE kit in school then. This will stay in school until half term. We will be doing PE outside whenever possible so you might like to send joggers to use was the weather gets colder.

Please see the curriculum overviews in the relevant term below for details of what we are doing in the curriculum. The weekly spelling words can also be found there. There are ten spellings each week. Ms

Smart will increase the spellings to fifteen  when we have settled in. Please help and support your child in learning these words throughout the year.  Spellings will be given on a Wednesday to be tested on the following Wednesday.

Homework

Spellings will be part of the homework .

Other homework will be set on a Friday to be handed in on a Monday. This is likely to be maths or english but may also be other areas of the curriculum history research or even art 

Reading 

Once established in Hawthorn class your child will receive a home reader. Please encourage your child to read to an adult for 5 minutes each day.  They will be given at least one reading day in school but we encourage each child to change their book when it has been completed. Please ensure their reading record is signed then we can facilitate this.

PE

PE will be on a Monday and Tuesday . Please send in a PE kit which we will keep in school and send home each holiday. Please make sure all items are named.