Writing

This half term we will be exploring 'The Journal of Iliona; A Roman Slave' to develop our writing skills in first person to create a diary entry. 

 

Last half term, we explored a picture book called 'Journey' by Aaron Becker. We used the illustrations to create our own story ending and developed our writing skills. 

We started this unit of work by going on our own unexpected journey! We thought about the feelings that we encountered throughout our journey and this helped us to understand how the character in the story could have been feeling. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Reading

For the next couple of weeks, we are exploring a non-fiction text all about the water cycle. 

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. 

During story time we are reading For the next couple of weeks, we are exploring the text 'Time Travelling with a Hamster' By Ross Welford.  We enjoyed this so much during our whole class reading sessions that we chose it as this half term's storytime book. 

Click on the book cover to find out more about the author and his other books. 

 

During National storytelling week, we met Alim Kamara through an online workshop. We loved how he made stories and rhymes into a rap. We were so inspired that we tried to create our own raps!

             

We enjoyed our recent author call with Iqbal Hussain. He helped us to plan our own time travel story!

 

 

 

 

 

 

Maths

This half-term we are developing our understanding of fractions. We will be learning all about what makes a whole, how to partition a whole number, compare and order mixed numbers and convert mixed numbers to improper fractions. 

                        

 

               

 

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

    

Religious Education

This half-term, we are exploring 'Desert to Garden'. We are learning about different parables and what message Jesus was trying to teach us through these stories and why this is important to Christians. 

We will be exploring the events of Holy Week, the different reactions to Jesus and understanding the story of St Peter through Holy Week. 

We will be spending time at Church reflection on the Stations of the Cross. 

 

Science

This half-term we are learning all about sound! 

We will be exploring how sounds are made, how they travel and investigating volume and pitch

                   

Click on the image of the drum to find out more about the science of sound!

 

Last half-term, we learnt all about states of matter. We discovered more understanding of solids, liquids and gases through lots of different investigations!

Click on the image to learn more about solids, liquids and gases. 

We used our knowledge of states of matter to help us to understand the water cycle. 

 

 

 

Geography

This term, we are learning all about the United Kingdom and its counties, towns, cities and its geographical features such as its mountains, coasts and rivers. 

Click on the map of the UK to find out more!

 

Our topic last term was all about 'spatial sense'. We learnt about tools on a globe, map skills and co-ordinates. 

We worked in small groups to label the tools on a globe. 

                 

We learnt about scales on maps. We were able to use the scale on a map of Ellesmere Port to find the distance between two locations. 

           

 

History

Our topic this term was all about the Romans. We learnt about who they were, when and where they lived and historical events and people from Roman times. 

We made clay Roman coins and oil lamps during our forest school session. 

   

                     

We loved our day at 'Park in the Past' and learnt so much about Roman Soldiers. We enjoyed wearing armour, making shield formations and sitting on the Roman toilets!

   

                                  

    

  

We enjoyed researching all about the daily life of a Roman using books and the internet to find out facts about food, clothes, children and entertainment. 

  

 

Art

This half-term we are learning how to create prints. We will be looking at the work of William Morris and how we used repeating patterns to make beautiful prints for inside the home. 

 

Design Technology

Last half-term we learnt how to complete a running stitch and an overstitch. We looked at the design of coin pouches already made and used our research to help develop our own design.  We used felt to create our coin pouch and decided which stitch would be best used to secure it together and to add embellishments. 

  

   

            

 

PE

This half-term, we will be learning how to play golf and Coach Danny will be helping us to develop our skills in football. 

Last half-term, Coach Danny taught us how to play Quidditch. 

              

                                            

Computing

This term, we will be learning how to edit photos. We will use tools such as cropping, rotating and cloning images to create new versions. 

 

 

 

Last term, we used '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. PE with Miss Burke

Thursday- Homework is due in, spelling and timetables test. 

Friday- Praise assembly, PE with Danny and music with Miss Allen.

 

 

 

 

  

Upcoming events:

Tuesday 3rd March-KS2 Mass at Church

Thursday 5th March-World Book Day. Dress up as a character or a word. 

Friday 6th March-Selected children to lead the Stations of the Cross at Church at 11:30am

Saturday 7th March-Selected children to lead the Stations of the Cross at Church at 4:15pm

W/B 9th March- Science week!

Wednesday 11th March- Reading Adventure Day for KS2.