Mrs Rose and Mrs Ellingford are your class teachers this year.

Our teaching assistant this year is Mrs Harrison. 

 

PE will take place on Tuesdays and Fridays this 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 Wednesday. 

The children will bring home a book bag book linked to their RWI group and an independent reading book. 

 

Homework

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 - Fire! Fire!

As Mathematicians we will be able to:

• To add together
• To add more
• To understand addition problems
• To find a part
• To subtract and find a part
• To understand fact families - the eight facts
• To take away/cross out (How many left?)
• To take away (How many left?)
• To subtraction on a number line
• To add or subtract 1 or 2

As Writers we will be able to:

Spoken language:

• To listen and respond

• To ask relevant questions

• To build vocabulary

• To participate in discussions, presentations, performances, role play, improvisations

and debates

Reading comprehension:

• To become familiar with key stories, fairy stories and traditional tales

• To retell stories and consider their particular characteristics

• To make inferences on the basis of what is being said and done

• To predict what might happen on the basis of what has been read so far

• To participate in discussion about what has been read to them

Writing Composition:

• To compose a sentence orally before writing it

• To sequence sentences to form short narratives

• To re-read what they have written to check that it makes sense

• To discuss what they have written with the teacher or other pupils

• To read aloud their writing clearly enough to be heard by their peers and the teacher

Our focused story will be Nibbles (The book monster)

We will also be focusing on Set 1, 2 and 3 sounds in preparation for our phonics test.

As Historians we will answer the questions:

• Know that we can learn about the past through historical sources
• Know that historical sources can tell us different things
• Know the Great fire of London started on Sunday 2nd September 1666.
• Explain why the great fire spread so quickly (including weather, Tudor house design, compact streets and the lack of a fire service in my answer.)
• Know that Samuel Pepys was a famous diarist who kept an account of everything that happened around that time.
• Know that the fire of London started in Thomas Farriner’s bakery in Pudding Lane from a spark from an oven.
• Know that Thomas Bludworth was the Mayor of London at the time and that he ignored the warning signs of the fire.
• Know that Samuel Pepys buried cheese and wine because he wrote about it in his diary.
• Know that King Charles II was the King at the time
• Know that the Great Fire London caused the creation of the fire office

As Scientists we will be: 

• The name and order of the four seasons: spring, summer, autumn and winter.
• That it is unsafe to look directly at the Sun.
• The weather associated with the four seasons and how it changes (in the UK).
• That day length varies across the four seasons, with fewer daylight hours in the winter
• and more in the summer.
• About a range of jobs and careers that use scientific knowledge and methods, e.g.
• weather reporter.
• Explore the world around us and raise simple questions.
• To collect data in the form of pictograms and analyse the data, answering simple
• questions based on the data.

As Geographers we will:

• We will be finding out which countries make up the United Kingdom.
• We will be locating the capital cities of each country and their flags.
• We will find out why London is an important city in England and locate some of the famous monuments we might have in London; some of which we are learning about in History such as Pudding Lane.

As learners of Religious Education we will be learning:

• What can we say about peace as part of the good news Christians  believe Jesus brings?
• How did Jesus choose his first disciples?
• What does the story Matthew and the tax collector tell us?
• What do Christians believe Jesus showed them about how to pray? 
• What does the story of Jesus and the Ten Lepers tell us?

As learners of PSHCE we will be:

• Learning how and who to ask for help.
• Learning how medicines work and how to use them safely.
• Learning how to stay safe, including at home and when crossing the road.
• Learning about some of the changes that have happened to you since you were a baby
• Learning about how it feels when there is change or loss
• Learning how to keep my body healthy
• Learning how to keep my body clean and stop germs from spreading

As Computer Technicians we will be:

• An algorithm is when instructions are put in an exact order
• Decomposition means breaking a problem into manageable chunks, which is important in computing.
• Errors in an algorithm are called bugs and fixing these is called debugging.

As Musicians we will:

• Listen to work from well-known composers
• Explain whether we like a piece of music or not
• Be able to talk about successful music compositions and possible improvements we can
• make
• Use our voices to play along to a melody
• To use body percussion and percussion instruments to play along to a piece of music
• To represent our music using a graphic score