Writing

This half-term we are exploring 'The Princess and the Pea' by Lauren Child to develop our writing skills. 

We have been developing our understanding of sentence structure and using noun phrases, fronted adverbials, prepositions and interesting verbs to create effective sentences. We will be writing an alternate version of this story for our independent writing task. 

 

We enjoyed our experience day of looking at different items belonging to the princess and and thinking of how the prince would feel when he saw her wear or use these items. This inspired our writing lesson the next day. 

  

 

Reading

For the next couple of weeks, we are exploring 'My Brother is a Superhero' by David Solomons. 

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 'The Butterfly Lion' by Michael Morpurgo. Once a week, we share our whole class novel and discuss characters and events within the story.  

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

 

 

Maths

This half-term we are developing our understanding of place value. We will be learning how to represent, partition, order and compare numbers to 10,000. We will be learning how to make estimations, rounding to the nearest 10, 100 and 100 and we will be learning how to read and write Roman numerals. 

 

 

                      

                    

 

 

 

 

 

      

                        

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

    

Religious Education

This half-term, our unit of work is called 'Creation and Covenant'. We are learning about the story of Abraham and understanding God's covenant with Abraham. We will be exploring the virtues of faith, hope and love.  

 

 

Science

This half-term we are learning all about living things and their habitats. 

We will be learning all about animal characteristics, how to sort living organisms and using branching keys to categorise different animals. 

We have been working hard using and creating our own classification keys to sort species of animals. 

      

        

History

This term, we are learning about the Aztecs. We will be learning about who they were and where they lived. We will discover all about their daily life, their social structure and their religious beliefs. 

 

 

We learnt about the social structure of the Aztecs and created a pyramid to show this. 

      

 

Design Technology

This term we are learning all about textiles. We will be exploring material pouches and their features. This will help us to design our own coin pouch designs. We will be learning how to complete a running stitch and over-stitch and how to cut and shape fabric neatly. We will use these skills to design and make a strong, secure coin pouch. 

We have explored different pouches and thought about their material, their purpose and their durability. 

           

     

PE

This half-term, we will be swimming and developing our gymnastic techniques using bridges in different ways. 

                                                                            

 Computing

We are learning how to programme a screen turtle using Turtle Academy. We now know how important it is to be accurate with our commands. We could explain the effect of changing the value of a command and created code snippets to create digits. 

          

 Remember to walk, cycle or ride to school as often as you can. You could also 'park and stride' to help keep active and reduce traffic outside of school. If you have actively travelled to school at least 3 times a week for 8 weeks, you will receive your September badge. 

 

 

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.

Swimming kits will be needed every day for W/C 14.9.26 and 21.9.26.

Monday- Homework will be given out.

Thursday- Homework is due in, spelling and timetables test. Music with Ms Allen. 

 

 

 

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