Rowan - 2 & 3

Mr Murray – Year 2 & 3

Mrs Billingham

Welcome to Rowan class.

Important reminders for second half of summer term:

Y2 Swimming – Tuesday AM

Y3 are not swimming this half term.

Friday – PE (Please come to school in PE kit)

Wednesday – PE (please come to school in PE kit)

Book changes are now done online via the online classroom. Please make sure your child visits this page when they need a library book.

Reading rivers – Please ensure your child reads every evening and fills in their reading river. Please bring them into school every Friday.

Spelling tests and times table tests will be held on Fridays.

Please use TT rockstars, stick and split and Doodle maths to practise maths at home. Logins and links are all on the class page on Google classroom.

The curriculum for this term

This half term, Rowan class will start by finishing their topic from last half term – rivers. We will remember what the features of rivers are called and recap the new vocabulary we learnt such as ‘meander’ and ‘source’. We will learn about rivers such as the Exe – Where is the source? Where is the mouth of the Exe? What is the history of the Exe? etc.

After we have finished the rivers block, we will move onto our prehistory topic. We will start in the Ice Age and travel through time until we are in the Iron Age. At each stage (Ice Age, Stone age, Bronze Age and Iron Age), we will learn about the way life changed, how the planet itself changed and how humans adapted to living socially together in more complex societies.

In science, we will learn about rocks which will tie nicely in with prehistory where we can examine fossils of prehistoric animals!