Class Teachers : Mrs Grant and Miss Williams

Term Three 

Our enquiry is: Why is it important to look after our planet? 

This term, the children will be exploring the big question: “Why is it important to look after our planet?” To help us investigate this, we will work through a series of mini-enquiries:

• What does it mean to be green?
• Where are the greenest places on Earth?
• What is it like to live in a rainforest/ desert/ ice cap?
• How can we look after our planet?
• How can we persuade everyone to become more sustainable?

Through videos, research, class discussions, and shared experiences, children will have the opportunity to reflect on these questions and develop their own.

English 

We will be doing daily reading and writing lessons based upon The Crown. These lessons will explore literary techniques, grammar, comprehension skills and provide opportunities to create fiction and non-fiction pieces of work. The class will be reading When the Mountains Roar as our class text. 

Maths

Across the term, the children will develop themselves as mathematicians. In Year 6, we will focus on fractions, decimals and percentages.  In Year 5 we will be exploring area and scaling, calculating with decimal fractions, factors, multiples and primes. We also will continue to have twice-weekly arithmetic practice to develop our fluency and speed. In Year 4, we will be continuing  to master the 3x,6x and 9x, learning the 7x and exploring multiplicative relationships.

R.E

In R.E we will be answering the question ‘Why is it better to be there in person?’. Discussions will be had around the importance of place for worship.

PSHE

This term’s unit is Health and Wellbeing
We will be focusing on  how to look after our bodies physically and mentally.

PE

Our P.E.days are Tuesday and Wednesday. This term we are working on Gymnastics and in Real PE we will focus on Dance 

Home learning

For home learning, children should be doing the following every week: 

Practising your timetables on TT Rockstars: https://ttrockstars.com/

Spelling Shed - games to play linked to this week's spelling rule https://www.spellingshed.com/en-gb/

Reading as often as possible – ideally 5 times a week. Please make sure to note this in your child's reading record as each time your child reads it goes towards our 'Star Reader' celebration of reading.

Children have logins for the websites above in their reading records. Please let Miss Williams know if your child needs another copy of their log-in details. 

Year 6 – Your child has been given SATS workbooks with page numbers to complete at home and be returned to school the following Monday – unless otherwise stated.