Welcome to Sycamore class!

We are both really looking forward to teaching you all this year, we have got so many exciting plans for the year ahead. We are very lucky to have Mrs Wiater, Mrs Clark and Mrs Nuku as part of our Sycamore team too! Mrs Bieda will be teaching Sycamore at the beginning of each week, with Mrs Titchener teaching every Wednesday, Thursday and Friday.

We will start the year off with our Farm to Food topic, where we learn about moving vehicles, ask questions, test different materials, and not only design, but build our very own moving vehicles! In term 2, we will be learning about the incredible things that Mary Seacole and Florence Nightingale did to improve wellbeing and care in hospitals, and of course, on the run up to Christmas we will be rehearsing for our Nativity. After Christmas, in term 3, we will start our Seaside topic where we will learn all about the geography of the seaside. In Term 4 our topic is called Castles and Dragons; during this term we will be learning about the geography of the world and what it was like living in a castle. Wassily Kandinsky is our focus artist in term 5 and we will be learning all about him, his artwork, and even making our own Kandinsky inspired clay plates. In term 6 we will be learning all about the Victorians and we will have our very own Victorian day in school.

As in Willow class, the children are encouraged to read to a grown-up every night, this should then be recorded in your child’s reading record. We would also love to see any home learning children have done at home.

PE kit should be in school at all times, Sycamore class will begin the year by having PE every Thursday and Friday, but this is subject to change.

Mrs Titchener and Mrs Bieda