This year your teacher in Miss Fowler!

Supporting us in class will be Mrs Fowles every morning.   

PE will take place on Tuesday and Friday this half-term:

For PE sessions please bring the following:

- Black shorts, leggings or jogging bottoms

- White t-shirt or polo shirt

- Black pumps or trainers

It is usually best to leave your child's PE kit in school for the half-term so that it is always available to use.

Please ensure every item is clearly named.

It is important that your child brings their reading book into school each day as the days on which they will be able to read with an adult may change from time to time. It is also crucial that you listen to your child read each evening and ensure that you sign their reading record highlighting what they have read and how they performed.

Within this class reading records will be checked and books changed on a Monday. Please make sure your child has their purple reading folder with them every Monday.

Homework will be set on a Tuesday through our online learning platform, SeeSaw. A link for which is placed below:

https://app.seesaw.me/#/login

All homework should be completed by the following Monday and will be checked by your teacher on this day. Please make sure that if you are having difficulties with the homework, that you contact your class teacher with plenty of time so that they can assist your child in its completion. In addition, the school also run a homework club which can really help support those children that struggle completing their tasks independently.

                                                                 

 Topic - What makes this place so special?

As Writers we will be able to:

• Using our phonics skills to spell words and write sentences.
• Forming letters correctly via regular handwriting practise.
• Composing sentences orally first
• Composing sentences using capital letters, full stops and finger spaces.
• Create pieces of writing based on our class text: Somebody Swallowed Stanley

As Mathematicians we will:

• Recognise coins and notes
• Count money - pence
• Count money - pounds
• Count money - pounds and pence
• Choose notes and coins
• Compare amounts of money
• Calculate with money
• Make a pound
• Find change

As learners of Religious Education we will be exploring the big questions: 

• How should we care for others and the world and why does it matter? 

• What does it mean to belong to a faith community? 

As Scientists, we will: 

• Name objects and identify the materials they are made from. 

• Recognise that objects are made from materials that suit their purpose. 

• Recall that a property is how a material can be described. 

When working scientifically, pupils who are secure will be able to: 

• Sort objects based on the materials they are made from. 

• Group objects based on their properties. 

• Suggest ways to test materials for their properties. 

• Make predictions and recognise whether they were accurate. 

• Use their observations to answer questions. 

• Begin to recognise if a test is fair. 

As geographers we will be answering these questions: 

• What is a polar region? 

• Where is the Arctic Circle? 

• Why is it so cold at the Arctic circle? 

• What physical features would you see in an Arctic landscape? 

• What human features would you see in an Arctic landscape? 

• How is the life of an Inuit different to yours?   

• What can you find out about the Arctic? 

As designers, we will be making structures. We will be exploring: 

• What is a freestanding structure? 

• How can I join and strengthen materials? 

• How will I design and make my freestanding structure? 

• How well did my product meet the Design Brief? 

As Historians we will: 

• Understand what History is and that this topic links to the golden strand, society.  

• Identify different types of houses 

• Understand the type of house we live in ourselves. 

•  Identify that houses look different because they were built in different time periods. 

• Know how to identify when a house was built by looking at how it was made and the materials that were used. 

• Learn that during Victorian times more people moved to industrial towns to work in factories.  

• Learn that factory owners built rows of terraced back-to-back houses so they could live close by.  

• Learn what Victorian homes were like and how they compare to modern houses.  

As Artists we will be learning about: 

• Learning about Hundertwasser, making comparisons and responding to a range of his artwork 

• Developing drawing techniques  

• Adding light and dark tones 

• Designing my artwork 

• Making my artwork. 

• Evaluating my artwork 

As musicians we will: 

• Breathe after each phrase in a song when singing. 

• Sing a song from memory. 

• Use different pitches while singing (high and low notes). 

• Sing lyrics accurately. 

• Perform actions that match lyrics. 

• Collaborate and communicate within a group. 

• Use sounds creatively to represent a chosen environment. 

• Perform a composition. 

• Apply pitch and dynamics to enhance a composition. 

• Read notation from left to right. 

In computing we will: 

• Decompose a game to predict the algorithms. 

• Give a definition for ‘decomposition’. 

• Write clear and precise algorithms. 

• Create algorithms to solve problems. 

• Use loops in their algorithms to make their code more efficient. 

• Explain what abstraction is. 

As citizens we will be: 

• To understand your rights and responsibilities as a member of your class 

• To learn about what improves and harms our local, natural and built environments. 

• To learn about what improves and harms our local, natural and built environments. 

• To develop the strategies and skills needed to care for our local environment 

• To learn that money comes from different sources and can be used for different purposes, including the concepts of spending and saving 

• To learn about the role money plays in your lives