1. Middle School’s Curriculum Workshop

2. Our Aims
• To give you some snapshots of what your children are doing in
school with us each day.
Increase your understanding of the Year 2 and Year 3 curriculum.
Give you some hints and tips for things you can do at home.
• Ease any worries you may have.
Give you a chance to get to know us a little more.

3. Priorities for this year
Championing subjects and leaders
Attendance
SEN challenge – ALL groups
Presentation and pride
Quality of books handwriting.
Extra curricular provision – clubs, clubs and club!s

4. Smallberry does Values!
Our children vote!

5. SMSC at Smallberry Circle time Values
Assemblies and celebration of festivals
Reflection
Special days and weeks eg Friendship week, MESSC mornings
Rights Respecting Schools
Lunches from around the world
Charity, community and global citizenship

6. Taking pride in what we do
Beautiful books to be proud of!
Exercises to improve our presentation eg painting letters with cotton buds, dot-to- dots, cutting and framing.
Following our presentation policy with underlined date and learning step.
Pen licenses
Perfect Presentation boards
Presentation Prince and Princess

7. What subjects are taught?
Guided Reading
Phonics
English
Mental Maths
Maths
History
Geography RE PE
Music
Art DT
Spanish

8. Specialist provision Mrs Vandervelden (music) Miss Douglas (Spanish)
Brentford FC (Clubs and PE)
Sasha (lunches and healthy eating)

9. The year ahead …. Year 2 Year 3
London Zoo, Windsor Castle and the Synagogue
Rumble in the Jungle (The Owl who was afraid of the dark & the jungle book - India, habitats, Indian cooking, Rousseau)
What a Fantastically Peculiar Thing (Alice in Wonderland & James and the Giant Peach)
Off with his Head (Time Hunters: A Knight’s Quest & Sir Gawain and the Green Knight)
Harry Potter World, Matilda matinee and Great Missenden for the Roald Dahl museum
Best of British (Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone & Mary Poppins)
From Here to Where (The Phantom Toll Booth & Wee Free Men)
Bunkum and Tummyrot (Matilda and Boy)

10. Activities for years 2 and 3
Your challenge is to find animals from around the world and match them to their description. CHALLENGE: Can you place the animal in the correct ‘continent hoop’? We will be writing a fact-file about different animals tomorrow!
Pipettes plastic cauldrons (or large mixing bowls) vinegar bicarbonate of soda washing up liquid glitter petals/ grass/ chopped herbs spoons or sticks for stirring
Mix 1 spoon Wartcap Powder with 1 spoon dragon’s blood. Add some drops of Veritas Serum and mix well to see what happens!
Potions – science linked to instructions

11. What animals belong to what continents?

12. What matters at Smallberry Green?
Talking, sharing, challenge, community, ambition, caring, fun and creativity.
Why because children who are engaged and see purpose in what they are doing are more effective learners.
Building great learners and having a great learning ‘mindset’! Our children can take this with them on their journey throughout life.
Successful global citizens.

13. Home learning at Smallberry Green
Traditional homework is scientifically proven to have very little impact on pupils learning
Research says that home learning which has the most impact on learning is practising basic skills through repetition and giving children ownership over what they are doing.
Home-learning projects
Spellings
Reading
Number bonds/Mathletics

14. How can you help at home Structure and routine.
Healthy lifestyles – food and exercise.
Reading with and to your child – they still need support with this! Exposure to sophisticated language e.g. Newspapers.
Out and about – life experiences are crucial – being outside, museums, parks, on the train, tube and bus.
Screen time – please limit this, children need down time too.
Conversations, knowing what is going on with your children, what are they learning about. They love to tell you about their days.
Sewing, plasticine modelling, puzzles, drawing, colouring, dot to dots.
Keeping a diary
Play dates
Times tables - games, reasoning, fluency – real life experiences of using maths e.g. money in supermarkets, measuring to cook, budgeting and costing,

15. Thank you!
You have curious, enthusiastic, well-mannered children and we are really enjoying working with them.
If there is anything further you would like to discuss, please don’t hesitate to get in touch with your child’s class teacher. We feel it is incredibly important that we work together to ensure that we achieve the best possible education for your children!