Welcome back! We hope that you have had a wonderful half term.

Writing

We will be spending the first part of this week finishing and up-levelling our non-chronological reports.

After that, we will be moving onto our new unit: losing tales. We will be using Julia Donaldson’s Monkey Puzzle as a stimulus for our writing. It is a story based on a monkey who loses his mum and enlists the help of a beautiful butterfly to help him.

We will be covering lots of SPaG objectives throughout this unit. These include: looking at silent letters (e.g knees), investigating rhyming words, identifying commands, suffix words and much, much more.

Reading

Our new class read is yet to be confirmed.

Maths

We will be continuing our work on fractions. We will be recognising one third before moving onto finding one third of an amount or shape. When finding one third we can divide the whole into three equal parts. If a shape has been split into 9 equal parts, we would find one third of 9 by dividing 9 by 3. One third of 9 is therefore 3. We can represent this in a bar model.

 History

We are looking at the Race to Space.

Science

We will be continuing our work on plants.

PE

We will have PE with the students from Archbishop Tennison’s for one final week. After, we will be using the Real PE scheme of work.

Writing

This week we will be using the boxed up plan to help us to plan a non-chronological report about aliens! We will also be doing a shared write. Towards the end of the week, the children will be making their own information booklets about their aliens. We will be focusing on key features of non-chronological report/ fiction texts such as: facts, subheadings, pictures and questions.

Reading

We will be continuing to read The Hodgeheg by Dick-King-Smith.

Maths

We have completed our work on shape and will be starting our new maths topic: fractions. We are hoping that the children will be able to make strong links between this and multiplication and division.

It is important that they understand that a fraction is a part of a whole. They will be exposed to different representations of fractions. Please see the examples below… They all represent one half.

Here the whole is split into 16 equal parts. Eight of those equal parts are shaded. Half of 16 is 8 (because 16 divided by 2 is 8). It does not matter which 8 parts are shaded; they still represent one half.

History

We are learning about Pablo Picasso.

Science

We will be continuing our work on plants.

PE

We are excited to have some students from Archbishop Tennisons learning to lead PE/ games and activities as part of their Sport’s Leader’s Initiative. They will be working with us for the next 6 weeks.