Welcome to Holt Class!

Class Teachers:

Mrs East (Every morning and Thursday afternoons)

Mrs Feast (Monday and Wednesday afternoons)

Miss O'Hara (Tuesday afternoons)

Classroom Assistants: 

Ms Harrison 

Mrs Goldsborough

In Holt Class, all staff strive to weave their teaching prowess into an extraordinary experience. We aim to immerse children in the joy of reading, as we embark on thrilling literary adventures which are linked with our captivating History and Geography topics.

Holt class prides itself on unleashing the children’s creativity through drama and writing, crafting captivating hooks for each of our writing units.

In Holt class we treat every child like the unique individuals that they are, ensuring an engaging and meaningful educational journey for all. However, we also aim to promote the community aspect of our class, encouraging the children to look after each other, show kindness and work as a team.

We strive to support children in embodying our school values and ASTONishing Learner attributes throughout their time in Holt Class, fostering a positive and respectful learning environment.

In terms of academic development, we not only consolidate what we have learned in Key Stage One but also focus on enhancing our reading and writing skills required for Key Stage 2. Furthermore, we continue to expand our mathematical and scientific abilities, ensuring a well-rounded education.

Holt Class is where learning becomes an enchanting voyage of discovery

Our Learning Journey

This term in Holt class, our Topic is 'Where did it all begin?' This is a topic with historical enquiry at its focus which encourages children to explore the beginnings of modern life thousands of years ago and compare this with modern times. 

In History, we will be learning to sequence periods of history on a timeline, including the three eras of the Stone Age. We will be looking at aspects of daily life such as the food they ate, the clothes they wore and the dwellings they lived in. Throughout this unit, we will be asking the children to reflect upon and compare how life must have felt then compared to our lives now. Alongside this, through our Art and DT lessons, we will be exploring Stone Age cave paintings and making 3D Stone Age dwellings.

We are using two key texts to inspire our English learning and writing this term. We will start with the picture book Stone Age Boy and then move on to the short novel Little Nose the Brave. Our writing journey will be linked to these core texts as creative drivers, but we will be exploring instructions, characters descriptions, poetry, narrative and information writing as genres for us to emulate. Each unit will start with a creative hook which will then lead into an exploration of the key vocabulary we might need. We will then explore each genre further so we know what a good one looks like. From this point, we will then learn the specific grammar skills we need in order to write effectively, before we plan, draft, edit and publish our own pieces.

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