Welcome back after Christmas. We hope you have had chances for rest amid the business of the season.
This half terms continues to be fun, meeting new books, new topics and more opportunities to be Young Leaders.
Daily Routines- These are the same as last term
Please come into school via the KS2 door, store your bag in your locker and have your water, pencil case, reading book and reading diary to hand. When you come in, we will have an activity ready to ease us into our day. At the end of the day, we will come out to the KS2 playground ready to go home.
Weekly Routines
We have a few activities timetabled every week.
Mondays and Tuesdays- Some children have music lessons in school
Wednesdays- PE day
Fridays- PE day
On PE days, please come to school wearing your PE uniform. Pupils need to wear a plain white t-shirt (or one with the school logo) and plain black or navy bottoms.
Snacks and water
Just a reminder to bring a water bottle to school. There are opportunities to fill up your bottle during the day. Also, do bring a healthy snack like fruit to school for break time.
Homework
Homework will continue as it did last term.
All homework is sent home on a Friday.
Maths- this will be a page from Mathletics. It is reviewed on a Wednesday.
Reading- Please read as much as you can and record it in your diary.
SPaG- This will be a page of our CGP book. It is due back to school for Wednesday.
Spelling- This is shared on the homework every Friday and links to our spelling learning for the week.
Topic- This term is about out Living Museum. (More information will be emailed home.)
You can also practise your times tables on TTRS.
Ways to help at home
Please continue to read with your child and ask them lots of questions about their reading. To help writing, it is always a good idea to play games in the newspaper like Wordles and word searches. To help with number skills, please help by encouraging your child to use their TTRS account to practise.
Curriculum Overview
SPRING TERM
English
During this term, we will meet some wonderful books, starting with Cogheart by Peter Bunzl and The Lizzie and Belle Mysteries by J T Williams. We will also explore The Lost Thing by Shaun Tan, When the Stars come out by Nicola Edwards, Real Life Mysteries by Susan Martineau. and The Whale by Ethan and Vita Murrow. We will continue to practise their retrieval, inference, evidencing, predicting and summarising. In writing we will continue to embed our range of clauses, brackets and dashes. We will start to look at different sentence openers and ways to increase the flair in our writing.
Maths
This term we will continue to embed our fraction knowledge, learning to add and subtract fractions. We will also learn to complete short and long multiplication and complete word problems with these skills. We will be using multiplication and division to find fractions of amounts.
Science
In Science we will learn about plants and animals and the habitats they live in. We will complete dissections, sort animals, look for patterns in their behaviours and use secondary sources to find out about famous scientists. In the second half term, we will start to explore materials and test them based on their properties using comparative fair tests.
PE
In PE, this term we will learn net and wall games, gymnastics, orienteering and dance. The children will continue to be taught by a specialist on Wednesday afternoons.
RE
Our spring term starts with Reverence week where we will learn about the key parables Jesus taught us. Several fun activities are planned to immerse the children in the meanings of different parables.
In RE we be exploring whether religions change or stay the same. We will use data from the local census to analyse how the percentage of people practising faith has changed. After half term, we will be answering the big question, What would Jesus do? Looking about what Jesus would do in different contexts.
PSHE
In PSHE, we will be looking at how to stay healthy in body and mind and also ways to care for our bodies as we grow up.
DT and Creative arts
In DT this term we will be making soft toys, learning to stitch, thread needles, and embellish. Our art will link to stories for schools and we will be inspired by the artwork of Quentin Blake. In music we will learn about the Blues and the Festival of Colour.
If you have any questions, please do get in touch via the office on: admin3590@welearn365.com or keyte.h@welearn365.com
