Writing

In our writing lessons we are exploring the poem 'The River' by Valerie Bloom. We are developing our knowledge of poetry structure, rhyming couplets and language used to create an engaging poem. 

We will be creating metaphors and using personification to create our own river poem. 

Click on the poem to listen to Valarie Bloom read it out loud. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

At the beginning of the half term we explored 'The Princess and the Pea' by Lauren Child. We developed our skills in writing exciting and engaging narratives and developed our skills in using inverted commas and expanded noun phrases. 

 

Click on the image if you want to listen to the story at home. 

 

 

 

Reading

For the next couple of weeks, we are exploring an extract from 'After the War' by Tom Palmer. 

We are practising our reading fluency skills and exploring the meaning of new words in context so that we can make sense of what we read. We are developing our retrieval skills with independence and developing our inference and explanations with some support. 

Click on the image of the book to find out more about the author and his books. 

 

At the beginning of the half term we explored an extract from 'My Brother is a Superhero' by David Solomons. 

Click on the image of the book to find out more about the author and his books. 

 

Maths

In maths, we have developed our understanding of place value with numbers up to 4-digits. Now we are learning how to use the column method for addition and subtraction. 

 

           

We have been working practically to help us to understand how to exhange. 

       

We have been learning how to round to the nearest 10, 100 and 1000. We enjoyed playing a game to help us!

      

Remember to log into TTRS to practise your timetables every day.

    

Religious Education

We are exploring 'Creation and Covenant'.  

We looked at 'Stewardship' and what we can do to care for God's world that he created for us. We looked at Genesis to find Bible references that related to an artist's piece of work which represented God's creation. 

    

Amelie created a beautiful piece of homework based on 'What does it mean to be a Pilgrim of Hope?' Hugh also created a beautiful song- have a listen using the QR code below. 

 

Science

Our science topic this half-term is all about 'Living things and their habitats'. We will be exploring how animals can be grouped and using classification keys to sort groups of animals. 

Click on the image above to help you to understand more about living things and their habitats. 

          

With support, we used sweets to help us to create questions so that we could classify and sort them. Then we had a go at creating our own branching keys with our friends. 

   

Once we understood how to create a branching key, we worked in small groups to classify living things. 

  

During our forest school sessions we went on an invertebrate hunt around the local environment. We used classification keys to help to idenitfy what we found. 

History

Our topic this half-term is all about the Aztecs. We will be learning about who they were, when and where they lived and historical events and people from the Aztec times. 

We have learnt about the social structure of the Aztec society. 

PE

Children have gymnastics every Thursday with coach Danny and they will have swimming lessons this term too. 

Children explored movements and balances to create bridges. 

             

    

                          

They have been created bridge balances using apparatus and moving over and under individual bridges on apparatus. 

    

              

Computing

We have been using 'Turtle Academy Playground' to create logo commands. We learnt how to create accurate commands using forwards, backwards, clear screen and turns. We now know how to use the pen up and pen down command in order to make more than one letter or shape on the screen. We are practising using the repeat command. 

          

   

 

 

 

Reading

Children should be reading for at least 15 minutes per day. Please, record your child's reading homework in their reading diary. These will be checked daily.

Timetables/Arithmetic

Children should be learning their timetables for at least 10 minutes per day on Times Tables Rock Stars. 

Spelling

Children should be practising their spellings for at least 10 minutes per day on Spelling Frame. Children should complete their online spelling test on Tuesday or Wednesday ready for their test on Thursday morning. 

*Children will be tested on their spelling and times tables every Thursday. They will take their test books home every Friday to share their achievements with parents. Please ensure they are brought back into school on Monday morning.*

Weekly homework

Children will receive a piece of homework based on reading, SPAG or maths on weekly basis. This will be given out on Mondays and should be returned to school on Thursday morning. This homework should take around 20 minutes to complete. 

 

We have writing, reading and maths lessons every morning through the week. In the afternoons we have science, RE, art, geography, music, RSE and PE lessons. 

Monday- Homework will be given out. 

Thursday- Homework is due in, spelling and timetables test, PE with coach Danny, Spanish with Mrs Bellas.

Friday- Praise assembly. 

 

 

 

1st Oct: Black History Month begins

Mon 13th Oct: Spanish Day in school (Wear red and yellow clothes)

Tue 14th Oct: Forest school

Mon 20th Oct: Ness Gardens

Thur 16th Oct: International Evening

Mon 20th Oct: Black History Month homework due in

Wed 22nd Oct: Bright day (Wear bright clothes to school)

Fri 24th Oct: Halloween dress up day and school disco

Fri 24th Oct: Break up for the half term