From February 2nd, the children will be going to Altrincham Leisure Centre for a swimming lesson as well as a gymnastic lesson delivered by a professional gymnastics coach. 

Swimming

From this date, every Monday the children should come into school wearing their full PE kit:

• School jumper
• Plain, white t-shirt
• Black jogging bottoms or leggings in the summer. For warmer months, black shorts are suitable.
• Black trainers
• The children should place their swimming clothing - a costume or pair of fitted swimming shorts- underneath their school PE kit. 
• No jewellery should be worn. Please ensure that all earrings are removed before the children arrive at school on Monday morning. 
• In a separate bag the children should bring their underwear to put on after swimming as well as a towel.

The children will have their PE kits already worn ready for gymnastics. 

Spelling

Each week, a set of spellings, which are based on the spelling rule which the children have been learning in class, will be uploaded onto Seesaw for the children to learn. In addition, a vocabulary activity sheet will be uploaded for the children to work through related to a word that they are finding it difficult to learn.

Topic Project

For each new topic, a topic project will be uploaded onto Seesaw. The children will be given a number of weeks to complete the project to allow them to really allow their creative talents to flow! The project can be uploaded onto Seesaw or brought into school on completion. 

Times Tables

To support the children with their maths number recall, they should spend time at home on Times tables Rockstars. 

Reading

In school, the children have access to Accelerated Reader which they can access in school to complete quizzes on books that they have read and build their word count. Every time a child achieves one hundred percent in a quiz, they earn a star which enters them in a draw for the certificate at the end of the half term. In order to complete quizzes, the children should be reading their school book every evening. Of course, any reading for enjoyment is welcomed!

As historians, we will:

• Find out when in history the Roman empire was
• Ask why the Romans left sunny Italy to invade this cold island on the edge of the Empire
• Consider whether Claudius invaded Britain for the same reason as Caesar.
• Decide if Boudicca was a hero or a villain.
• Find out how the Romans were able to keep control of such a vast empire.
• Learn how we can solve the mystery of how the great empire came to an end.
• Find out what religion in Roman society was like.
• Learn what the Romans have done for us.
• As designers, in textiles we will:
• Learn how were Roman purses designed.
• Learn which stitches are practical for decorating and which are practical for joining fabric.
• Carry out design tests to consider which fabric will be most suitable for a purse design.
• Design and make and evaluate a Roman purse.

As geographers, we will:

• Answer the question - Would you rather settle in Rome or Manchester through a series of enquiry questions exploring modern Italy.
• Locate Italy and the UK on a world map, identify the countries which border Italy and understand it is split into regional locations similar to the United Kingdom. 
• Understand how Italy’s location in relation to the Equator, Poles and Tropics of Cancer and Capricorn affect the climate. We will compare the climate to the UK through creating a climate graph.
• Identify physical features of the Italian landscape including the Alps, Apennines and the River Po.
• Consider why tourists visit Italy and identify tourist attractions dating back to Ancient Roman times.
• Investigate different aspects of Italian culture including family life, food, religious beliefs, fashion and music. 

As musicians we will:

• Learn to play the samba drums 
• Learn how to sing in tune.
• Understand what is a  motif in music
• Compose and notate a motif
• Develop and transpose a motif
• Combine and perform motifs

As artists we will:

• learn about Roman mosaics, how they were made and the materials they used.
• explore contemporary artist Sonia King’s mosaics, compare them to Roman mosaic and take digital photographs to inspire our own mosaic design.
• annotate our photographs and use them to mosaic design ideas. 
• plan a mosaic tile design using our observations, photographs, and inspiration from Sonia King and the Romans.
• practise techniques for arranging, pasting, and grouting tiles in preparation for making a mosaic tile.
• create our final design.

As theologists we will:

• understand how many Hindus describe ultimate reality.
• understand how the idea of Brahman being in everything may affect how people.
• learn about some of the Hindu deities.
• know how many Hindus understand deities
• understand what people can learn about deities from Ganesh

As scientists, we will:

• Find out how electrical appliances are powered
• Learn how an electrical circuit is constructed
• Learn how switches are used in circuits
• Learn which materials are conductors and which are insulators
• Investigate what affects the brightness of a bulb
• Consider how I can stay safe around electricity

As linguists, in Spanish we will:

• Name and identify different types of weather in Spain
• To ask and answer questions about the weather 
• To read and interpret a text about the weather 
• To compose a weather forecast script

As athletes we will, 

• Learn: to show good peripheral awareness; when to move towards the net to throw and how to use quick feet in dodgeball
• Learn: how to stand in the triple threat position; the offence of a double dribble and how to find a space to shoot in basketball
• Begin our swimming journey with Altrincham leisure centre
• Participate in gymnastics sessions with a gymnastics coach

As children who value learning about living in wider world in PSHE we will:

• understand how groups come together to make decisions
• appreciate the range of national, regional, religious and ethnic identities in the United Kingdom
• consider the lives of people living in other places, and people with different values and customs
• learn that resources can be allocated in different ways and that these economic choices affect individuals, communities and the sustainability of the environment across the world.
• research, discuss and debate topical issues, problems and events that are of concern to us.
• learn about the role money plays in our own and others’ lives, including how to manage our money and about being a critical consumer.

As writers, we will:

• Read the book: Our Tower and write a journal, recounting events as one of the characters
• Organise our writing into paragraphs
• Use the present and past progressive tenses
• Use and punctuate direct speech
• Use fronted adverbials and varied and rich vocabulary
• Spell words with the sion, cian and tion suffixes