Welcome to the Dragonflies class page!

Class 2 is made up of a bunch of fantastic year 3 and 4 children who are eager to learn and bring lots of enthusiasm each day.

The class is lead by Mrs Beston each Monday to Wednesday and Mrs Walker each Thursday and Friday. Supporting our teachers in their roles are the wonderful teaching assistants: Mrs Wade, Mrs Payne and Miss Webster. These ladies help to support children with particular needs and lead group activities.

2024 - 2025 is set to be an exciting school year! A trip is in the diary for Woodmatters in the coming weeks and all children will experience a trip to the theatre as developing an appreciation of the arts is a priority for us.

Our topic this half term is: Stone Age to Iron Age. A trip to Woodmatters has been organised to inspire this learning. Mrs Beston will teach the history and geography through this topic. In English children will be reading UG and other texts set in this historical period. In Maths children will begin by covering place value. We use White Rose to teach our maths topics and the steps of development are available to see on their website.   

On Wednesday afternoons, children will be taught Music and PE by Mrs Battersby and Mr Blair. During this time Mrs Beston is released for Planning, Preparation and Assessment (PPA) tasks.  

Each Thursday and Friday Mrs Walker will lead teaching. In Maths Mrs Walker will begin by teaching Multiplication and Division. In English Mrs Walker teaches Reading Comprehension skills each Thursday and spelling, grammar and punctuation (SPaG) activities each Friday. This term children will begin by recapping: full stops and capital letters, conjunctions, question marks, adjectives and pronouns. In the afternoon sessions Mrs Walker will teach Science, PSHE and Computing. Our first science topic is: This Planet Rocks! where children will learn about rock types, soil and fossils. In our SCARF (Safety, Caring, Achievement, Resilience, Friendship) lessons this half term children will be taught the unit ‘Me and My Relationships.’ In these lessons children will play lessons and take part in activities to help develop their SCARF skills. In our computing lessons we will begin by recapping our coding skills. We use teachcomputing.org to teach the computing lessons and draw upon purplemash to practice skills taught - children (and curious parents!) can access this platform from home.  

Within school children are heard reading twice a week - either 1:1 with their own book or as part of a guided reading session. Children also access IDL and TT Rockstars to support their development of core literacy and maths skills. We regularly use SeeSaw to share what we have been doing in class and we love it when children’s achievements and experiences from home are shared with us on this platform – it often sparks conversations in class and sometimes directs our teaching too.  

Homework 

Our expectations are that children should be reading with a parent 5 times each week. Children should also be learning their weekly spellings. The half term's overview will be sent out at the beginning of each half term so that you can practise at home. We will not send any additional tasks during the first half term to enable children to get back into the school routines after their summer break. If you have any questions for the dragonfly/class 2 team please do not hesitate to contact us via the school office team: admin@cartmel.cumbria.sch.uk.