Seahorses Class

Hello and welcome to the Seahorses homepage!

Our class teacher is Mrs Wood and our lovely teaching assistant is Miss Pritchard.

In Seahorses, independence and understanding go hand in hand – we embrace mistakes and really begin to learn from them as “the expert in anything was once a beginner”. The children are encouraged to find themselves, their creativity and their love for learning.

The aim of our page is to give you an insight into what we are learning about in class each theme along with suggestions of how you can support your child at home. You will be able to access information regarding; weekly homework and topics we are studying in class at the moment.

I hope you find this information useful, if you have any questions please do not hesitate to ask a member of the Seahorses team or email Mrs Wood at [email protected]

Summer Term 2026's Focus

This term, our focus in History is to learn all about Significant People and answer the big question:
How have significant people in History impact on our lives today?

We will be introduced to Christopher Columbus and understand what he discovered and the importance of this. We will also reflect on the impact that Columbus' expedition had on our lives today. Along side learning about Christopher Columbus, we will be introduced to Neil Armstrong and learn about the Apollo II mission, what happened and why it was such an important event in human history. We will be looking at a timeline of events to improve our chronological understanding and explore sources to deepen our understanding of how a Historians investigate the past. Finally, we will be comparing and contrasting the explorations of these significant people to be able to give explanations of the events ourselves.

This term in Science we are investigating plants! We will be growing our own sunflowers to learn how to take care of a plant ~ we will be placing our seeds at different angles to see if this effects how the plant grows. We will also be carrying out two class experiments; one with runner beans planted a few days apart to see the different growth stages together; one with bulbs to see whether bulbs need soil to be planted in to grow and whether the bulbs can grow in the light and the dark! We will observe, record and measure data to understand how the plants grow and conclude our findings at the end of the unit. Along side growing our plants, we will be learning about the structure of plants, including trees and then dive deeper into understanding the difference between evergreen trees and deciduous trees.

In Art, we are going to be learning how to manipulate paper to create 3D sculptures of birds.

In Music, we will be learning how to use our recorders!

In Computing, we are going to improve of photography skills by capturing images and analysing the best lighting, edits and composition for our photos.

Value of the Season

Our Value of the Season is  * Courage *  

The children will be learning about what that word means and the importance that this value holds both in school and community life. Children will be able to earn tokens and work towards becoming the Values Champion for the class and accept an award from Mrs Abdulla in assembly.

This Week's Homework

Homework will be sent out on a Friday and needs to be returned by the following Wednesday. Homework will always consist of:

Fridge Words - These are words children have learnt or are going to learn in school and need to be practiced in different ways to embed their understanding of the word.

Common exception words - This is to give the children the opportunity to learn to sight read and possibly practice writing some common exception words for their stage over time to improve with words they are likely to be consistently reading and writing.

Reading - This is a small comprehension text to expose children to questions they will come across when they are reading a familiar or unfamiliar text and build up their comprehensive skills, rather than solely building fluency.

Maths - Our maths is based on building addition and subtraction fluency for rapid recall to support the children throughout the year and following years. The children's log in can be found in the front of their reading records and the website can be accessed via the link: Numbots

Useful Information

Reading books and records must be bought into school each day.

Children are expected to read at home – this can be with a more experienced reader that can support them when they need it. Any books or reading that they have done can be added to their reading record, not just the ones from school.

Our PE sessions are on a Monday and a Thursday afternoon in the last lesson – so children will return home in their PE kit from school on that day.