Dragonflies 2025 - 2026

Dear Parents and Carers,

We hope you had a fabulous Summer break! We are looking forward to welcoming all of the lovely Dragonflies back to school.

The Dragonflies class teacher is Miss Worrall, and our teaching assistants are Mrs Gaily and Miss Vaz.

Our Learning This Half Term
English – We will be using Mabel and the Mountain as our focus text to practice our key literacy skills, alongside developing our own Big Plans like Mabel!
Maths - We will be starting the year by looking at place value and practicing our place value skills.
Art – We will be looking at different colours and exploring artists such as Kandinsky and Mondrian.
Science – Our focus is rocks! We will be looking at different rocks and how they are formed.
Geography – We will be looking at human and physical features in Geography, such as Mountains!
Religion and Worldviews – We will be learning about beliefs and what we believe in to start the school year.
PE If your child does P.E in Year 2 or Year 3, this is on Tuesday. If your child does P.E in Year 4, this is on Wednesday.
Dragonflies will do an additional P.E lesson on Friday.

Reading

Every child will read daily with an adult in school, using a book matched to their ability. Children will also bring home a reading book. Please encourage 10 minutes of reading every day. A reading record will be provided; please sign it when your child has read with you, or if they have read independently. Reading books and records must be brought into school every day.

Homework
• For the first half term, please focus on reading with your child and making sure they are reading for 10 minutes a day.
Speech and Language Therapist (SALT) support Every Monday, our speech and language therapist Mehreen spends the day in the
provision. She works with individual children, doing activities based on their SALT targets. She also provides training for staff members to ensure we can deliver these activities on the other four days of the week.

Communication, language and interaction targets

Each child has target time every afternoon, during which, they will work on activities based on the EHCP, SALT and individual class targets. Your child will have three targets, focused on developing their communication, understanding and social interaction. These are reviewed at the end of each half-term by teachers and SALT. If you are unsure of your child’s targets, you can ask your child’s teacher.

Communication books
Every day, we will write in your child's communication book about how your child has been and what they have done. Please check your child's communication book every evening and write a message to let us know how they have been and what they have done at home. Communication books must be brought to school every day and we will always return them to you at the end of the school day.

If you have any questions, please do not hesitate to get in touch via email or by speaking to us at the end of the school day.

We look forward to a fantastic year together!
Miss Worrall