This year your teacher is Mrs Devlin.

Supporting us in class will be Mrs Fowles, Miss Green and Mrs Harrison.

PE will take place on Monday 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.

Autumn 1

Topic: Who did it?

In literacy we will be reading the story Troll Swap by Leigh Hodgkinson 

As readers, we will 

• Listening carefully to stories and talking about what happens. 
• Making predictions about what might happen next. 
• Learning new vocabulary from stories and discussing the meaning of unfamiliar words. 
• Sharing our ideas and opinions about the character, settings and events in a story. 
• Developing our fluency and confidence when reading familiar texts. 

As writers, we will be

• Combining words to make sentences.
• Using punctuation correctly – full stops, capital letters and finger spaces. 
• Writing expanded noun phrases to describe and specify. 
• Using subordination (because) and coordination (and) 

As Mathematicians, we will be

• Counting objects to one hundred using tens. 
• Recognising tens and ones. 
• Using place value charts. 
• Partitioning numbers to one hundred. 
• Writing numbers to one hundred in words. 

As scientists, we will learn

• How living things change, and that animals have offspring that grow into adults. 
• Which offspring come from which parent animal. 
• The stages in some animal life cycles. 
• That animals, including humans, need water, food and air to survive. 
• The importance of exercise and hygiene for humans. 
• The importance of a balanced diet for humans.

As learners of RE, we will be

Exploring the big question: What is the Good News that Christians say Jesus brings?

As learners of PSHE we will be learning to:

• Talk about how we feel when we have had enough or not enough sleep. 
• Recognise when we are active and how it makes us feel. 
• Independently choose active play or movement during the school day. 
• Recognise opportunities to be active outside of school. 
• Begin to join in with movement breaks or suggest when they need one. 
• Explain why it is important to brush our teeth regularly 
• Demonstrate how to brush our teeth with a manual and an electric toothbrush. 

As a historian we will be exploring 

• Naming different ways that we can find out about the past
• Recognising the difference between the police in the past and the present
•  Explaining how policing is similar and different between the past and the present
• Placing a few police objects or images in order using common phrases to show the passing of time
• Using common words and phrases relating to the passing of time such as before, after, yesterday, past, last year, a long time ago.
• Recognising who Robert Peel was and how he contribution can still be seen today
• Recognising who Henry Faulds was and how he contribution can still be seen today

As artists this term we will be

• Researching fingerprint techniques used by the artist Judith Anne Braun.

• Using paint/charcoal to design, share and create fingerprint designs.

• Using a range of techniques to create a finger palette portrait

• Evaluating our finger palette portrait.

As geographers this term we will be 

• Learning about our local area and the important places within it.

• Identifying the country and continent where we live

• Talking about and describing our local environment

• Recognising and identifying the different parts of an address.

As musicians, we will:

• Clapping the rhythm of our name.

•  Clapping in time to music.

•  Singing the overall shape of a melody.

•  Playing in time to music.

•  Copying and creating rhythms based on word patterns.

•  Playing on the pulse.

As computer technicians we will

• Recognising cause and effect when pressing buttons on a Bee-Bot.

• Discussing and demonstrating how the Bee-Bot works.

•  Recording video, ensuring everyone is in the shot.

•  Giving several clear instructions in sequence.

•  Programming a Bee-Bot to reach a destination.

•  Identifying and correcting mistakes in programming.