Farmborough Church Primary School

Farmborough Church
Primary School

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Fox Class Spring 2025

Welcome to

Foxes' Class

2024-25

Class Teachers: Miss Woods and

Ms McGuinness     

 

Miss Wood teaches on Monday and Tuesday

Ms McGuinness on Wednesday, Thursday and Friday 

 

For Term 3 we will be having a geography Focus:

Volcanoes 

Term 4 we will be having a History focus:

The impact of volcanoes over time on particular communities.

 

 

 

Click here to see our Topic Web to see what we will be learning over the next two terms and the questions we would like to find the answers to. 

 Bitesize and BBC TEACH has some useful videos and texts to look at and read.

THE ANTI-BULLYING WEEK 2024 CALL TO ACTION

From playgrounds to parliament, our homes to our phones, this Anti-Bullying Week let’s ‘Choose Respect’ and bring an end to bullying which negatively impacts millions of young lives.

This year, we’ll empower children and young people to not resort to bullying, even when we disagree and remind adults to lead by example, online and offline.

Imagine a world where respect and kindness thrives — it’s not just a dream, it’s in the choices WE make.

Join us this Anti-Bullying Week and commit to ‘Choose Respect’.

What will you choose?

Here's the anti-bullying document for you to use with your child!

  

Our class reader and book for some of our

Guided Reading is the amazing

Firework Maker's Daughter’

 

 What Lila wants to be more than anything else in the world is . . . a Firework-Maker!
But firework-making is not just about being able to make Crackle-Dragons and Golden Sneezes. There is also one special secret: every Firework-Maker must make a perilous journey to face the terrifying Fire-Fiend!
Not knowing that she needs special protection to survive the Fire-Fiend's flames, Lila sets off alone. Her friends, Chulak and Hamlet - the King's white elephant - race after her. But can they possibly reach her in time?

 

Some useful information about this year:

P.E. Your child will be having P.E lessons on Monday and Wednesday afternoons. Please can your child come wearing their named P.E. kit on these days. 

Homework

Homework will be given out each week, alternating between Tuesdays (Miss Woods) or Wednesdays (Ms McGuinness) and handed in a week later. Homework will be either Topic, Maths or Literacy.  It could be paper based or using Purple Mash, which will be set as a 'To Do' on your child's Purple Mash account.

 

 Click below for the homework timetables for each term as a reminder of when and who is giving out the homework each week:

Term 1; Term 2; Term 3; Term 4; Term 5 and Term 6.

 

Spelling words will be given out on Mondays and tested on Fridays. Please can you ensure your child writes them out a further two times in their home-school book.  Here is the overview we will be using to set your child's spelling words for the week.

 

Times Tables will be practised throughout the week and tested on Fridays.  We will go through these tables, in this order:

x2  x5  x10  x3  x6  x4  x8  x7  x9  x11  x12

If your child doesn't achieve full marks 13/13, then they will have the opportunity the following week to have another go.  We would rather them be secure in a table, before proceeding to the next one.

 

Doodle Maths: Your child has a subscription to Doodle Maths and we recommend that they spend 10 minutes a day using Doodle Maths to develop their numeracy skills. 

 

Home School Books: Your child will be given a home-school book at the start of Term 1, Term 3 and Term 5.  They will be expected to bring these books into school everyday.  On Monday they will copy their spelling words to learn for that week into the first column. At home they need to copy these words out two more times in the 2nd and 3rd column. Please can your child record what they have read during the week and if an adult can sign it so that they can earn points, which will go towards reading certificates and a chance to choose a new book when they have read 100 times at home. There is also a section for them to practise their multiplication tables.

 

Maths Frame is a fantastic free resource to help learn and practise your multiplication tables.

 

Hero of the Week

 

Your children have been asked to think about a hero: dead, alive, known personally, do not know personally, who they admire and respect. We would like them to talk to the class about this person for a couple of minutes - they can use a Powerpoint, photographs, objects to assist them with this.  Confidence in speaking out loud to an audience is something we like to develop in our children.

Here is the rota (initials only)  for the year.

 

***SPECIAL REMINDERS***

Please can you ensure that all clothes and equipment are named or labelled.  

 

Additional activities:

  • Books for Topics have amazing links to free readings of lots of really popular books. 
  • The Book Trust have some amazing activities available, including authors reading their books allowed and illustrators teaching you how to draw.
  • NRICH has lots of interesting Maths activities and challenges, as does I see Maths