Hedgehog Class
Class teacher’s welcome
Welcome to Hedgehog class! This year promises to be an exciting journey of learning and discovery, expanding the children’s knowledge and curiosity into years 2 and 3. Throughout the year, we will help the children to grow and develop socially and academically, build their independence and continue to foster their love of learning.
FOREST SCHOOL SESSIONS: Just a little reminder that Hedgehog class will be enjoying their Forrest school sessions for three weeks from Wednesday 12th November 2025. Their last session will be Wednesday 26th November 2025. Please check the letter for details of what your child will need to wear.
Mrs Simmonds
Curriculum news
At a glance Autumn 1
- Maths: Number and Place Value, Addition and Subtraction
- English: The Red Prince (fiction), How to Wash a Woolly Mammoth (instructional)
- Science: Weather and Seasons
- Geography: Locate hot /cold areas of the world in relation to the Equator and the North and South Poles Look at weather across the world Use world maps
- History: Stone Age to Iron Age
- RE: What is it like to follow God?
- Computing: Connecting Computers
- PSHE: Me and My Relationships
- Music: Shape Rhythms
- DT: Shell Structures (kite-making)
Home Learning
All children are encouraged to complete a home learning project to build on their class Geography and/or Science learning.
Ideas include…
- Science
Art
Geography
PSHE (
These projects are designed to run alongside the learning for a half-term.
Spellings and Phonics
At All Saints’ Primary School, we follow Little Wandle Phonics which then transfers into the Read, Write Inc. spelling scheme in Key Stage 2. You can find an overview of your child’s spellings below.
Year 2s will be focusing on the following during their sessions this half term:
Phase 5 review:
| Week 1 | /ai/ a-e ai ay a eigh ea ey aigh /ee/ y ea ee e ie ey e-e /igh/ igh i-e i y ie /oa/ ow o o-e oa oe ou | people eye whole |
| Week 2 | oo/ /yoo/ oo u u-e ew ue ou ui /air/ air are ear ere /ur/ er ur ir or ear /ow/ ou ow | through improve move prove shoe two who beautiful their parents |
| Week 3 | or/ or a aw au ore oor al oar our augh aur /zh/ si su /ch/ ch tch ture* /sh/ sh ti ch ssi ci si | thought sure |
| Week 4 | j/ j g ge dge /s/ s ss c ce se st sc /u/ ou /e/ ea /i/ y /o/ a /u/ o o-e /oo/ u oul schwa: er a or ar our re | once again any many friend busy pretty because laugh** |
| Week 5 | ie /ee/ /igh/ y /ee/ /igh/ /i/ ea /ee/ /e/ /ai/ a /a/ /ai/ /or/ | friend |
Year 3s:
| Week | Focus | Example Words |
| 8 Sep | The or sound spelt a before l and ll. | almost, already, chalk, small, stalk, talk, altogether, Red Words: above, after, again |
| 15 Sep | Soft c . | Circus, city, concert, excellent, exercise, fancy, notice, pencil, Red Words: any, anyone, are |
| 22 Sep | Adding the suffix –y (1) | Dotty, muddy, spotty, runny, sunny, yummy, foggy, funny Red Words: ask, bath, beautiful |
| 29 Sep | Special focus 1: Red words. Common exception
Special Focus 2: Homophones. |
1: where, could, there, want, was, would, what
2: See/sea, son/sun, blew/blue, knight/night, saw/sore |
| 6 Oct | Adding the suffix –y (2) | Breezy, crazy, curvy, greasy, simply, spiky, wheezy, Red Words: behind, both, bought |
| 13 Oct | Adding the suffix –ly | Bravely, foolishly, happily, loudly, nearly, softly, warmly Red Words: break, brother, buy |
| 20 Oct | The n sound spelt kn and gn. | Gnash, gnaw, gnome, knead, knee, knock, knit, Red Words: caught, child, children |
| 28 Oct | – HALF TERM | – |
| 3 Nov | The igh sound spelt y. | Butterfly, horrify, July, multiply, my, nearby, reply, Red Words: Christmas, class, climb |
| 10 Nov | Adding the suffix –ing (1) | Beginning, clapping, dropping, gripping, nodding, shopping, tripping Red Words: clothes, cold, come |
| 17Nov | Special focus 3: Red words. Common exception
Special Focus 4: Homophones. |
3: money, people, busy, half
4: There/their, no/know, right/write, to/too, week/weak |
| 24 Nov | Adding the suffix –ing (2) | Baking, cracking, phoning, racing, shading, tickling, writing, Red Words: does, door, down |
| 1 Dec | The j sound. | Adjust, bridge, charge, energy, gentle, large, urgent, Red Words: even, every, everybody |
| 8 Dec | The o sound spelt a after w and qu. | Quality, quantity, squash, wallet, wander, wasp, watch, Red Words: eye, fast, father |
| 15 Dec | Special focus 5: Contractions and apostrophes. | 5: I’m, I’ll, |
Dates for the diary
PE days: Monday (Mrs Simmonds), Tuesday (Mrs Siddons)
Forest School: 12th – 19th November 2025 (this will take place in the afternoon- Please ensure your child comes equipped with appropriate clothing. A letter will be sent out prior to starting)
Links to support learning
Reading
Please encourage your child to read daily for a minimum of 10 minutes. At least 3 reading sessions per week should be recorded in the school Reading Record. Children should all have a school reading book (that can be changed regularly) but should be encouraged to read other material as well.
Maths
Year 2 Numbots (login on inside front cover of Reading Record) – Children work through the different levels to help secure their calculation skills and number facts.
Year 3 Times Table Rock Stars (login on inside front cover of Reading Record) – Y3 introduces 3, 4 and 8 multiplication tables, as well as building on 2, 5 and 10 (from Y2)
Written methods for addition, subtraction and multiplication are taught as in the pictures below.
