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 children who value their relationships, in PSHE we will:

• Explore feelings, emotions and peer pressure.
• Understand risks, dares and how to resist peer pressure.
• Understand jealousy and envy and how to manage difficult feelings.
• Understand when it is right to keep or break a secret.
• Understand personal boundaries and body safety.
• Understand how friendships change and how to manage conflict.
• To understand stereotypes, assumptions and online information.

As artists, we will:

• Learn about Henri Rousseau and his artwork.
• Explore art techniques that create texture.
• Understand how artists show depth using perspective.
• Create a rainforest collage in the style of Rousseau.

As musicians, we will:

• Recap how body percussion creates music
• Analyse a piece of music, considering its structure and texture
• Create simple rhythms to match the layers of the rainforest
• Compose music, considering the dynamics, pitch and tempo

As scientists, we will:

• Make connections with the properties of solids, liquids and gases
• Investigate the viscosity of liquids
• Carry out fair tests, only changing one variable at a time
• Review the components of circuits
• Consider the appropriateness of the properties of liquids for particular medicines

As mathematicians, we will:

• Learn how to record the position of shapes using co-ordinates
• Translate points and shapes
• Recognise and draw lines of symmetry
• Review methods for the four operations
• Name and recognise the properties of 2D shapes: quadrilaterals, triangles and polygons
• Read time using the 24 hour intervals
• Calculate time durations

As writers, we will

• Learn the features of an explanation
• Include varied and rich vocabulary in our writing
• Secure our understanding of the rules of possessive apostrophes for plural and singular nouns
• Use fronted adverbials and separate them with commas
• Join ideas with conjunctions
• Separate ideas into paragraphs