Welcome to Topaz Class 2025-2026
Dear all Topaz page visitors,
Welcome to our class webpage! Here you will find information about our latest topic, links to useful websites, interesting facts about what we learn about, and much more!
If you need to contact us, you can email Miss Edwards at ledwards@netherfield.e-sussex.sch.uk (Mondays and Tuesdays) or Mr Cornes at acornes@netherfield.e-sussex.sch.uk (Wednesdays-Fridays). Alternatively, you can message us directly on ClassDojo. Parents can also make appointments to talk to us in more detail via the school office.
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Topic Autumn Terms 1 and 2 - Through the Ages
In the Through the Ages project, the children will learn about three different periods of British prehistory: the Stone Age, Bronze Age and Iron Age. They will discover terminology relating to time and sequence dates to make a timeline. They will explore the changes to people, homes and lifestyle throughout the different periods and investigate examples of prehistoric settlements, monuments, burials and artefacts in detail. They will also study how technology improved over time, including how the discovery of different metals changed the way that people lived.
Please find the knowledge organiser, glossary of terms, word mat, and home learning ideas for this project saved at the bottom of this class page, which you can download if you would like to.
Books we will be reading and drawing writing inspiration from during this topic are:
• Spellings: Weekly – Children are given their spellings on a Monday and tested on these spellings on a Friday. Please practice these at home and ensure the children bring their spellings books in on these days in their reading folders.
• Children to read at home daily and please can you write a comment in their reading records when they have done so. These will be checked daily and children will be given a Class Dojo point for each read.
• Pupils to practice their times tables on Times Tables Rockstars website as much as possible.
• Children’s school computer login and Times Table Rockstars logins will be stuck in the front of their reading records.
Useful Websites
Times Table Rockstars
We use Times Tables Rock Stars to develop the children's speed, fluency, and accuracy with times tables. We have daily practice each morning. Please feel free to explore the site by clicking on the picture below and logging in. Each child has their own log in details stuck into their reading records - please contact us if they have forgotten these!
PurpleMash
We use PurpleMash to enrich our Computing curriculum, allowing children to explore key software in a safe, controlled environment. PurpleMash has programmes that allow the children to learn to touch type, word process, code, input data in spreadsheets, create basic video games, email, work on collaborative documents, and much more! Please email if you would like any more information, or click on the link below to explore the PurpleMash site. Your children have their own logins for this website as well.
Class Dojo
We use Class Dojo to share videos and information and communicate with parents and carers. We have a School Story where we share information about whole school events, and each class has a Class Story to share events and pictures from their classes. Please click on the link below to explore the site and find out more.
