Week beginning 11th February

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.