Week beginning 25th March

Writing

This week we are hoping to start writing our innovated prequels and endings for Julia Donaldson’s story Monkey Puzzle. The children will be able to keep the middle part of the story as it was. We will be encouraging the children to think about what baby monkey has learnt from his experiences.

Maths

We will be continuing with our work on time. We will be looking at time facts and using them to problem solve. We will also be looking at and comparing durations of time. Please work on these at home.

An example of a reasoning activity could be: convince me that three quarters of an hour is greater than 30 minutes. For this, the children need to know how many minutes there are in an hour and use their knowledge of fractions/ other time facts to support their thinking.

We will also be completing our length assessment.

 History

We are continuing with our work on Neil Armstrong and the Race to Space. We will be writing diary entries to link with literacy.

Science

We will be continuing our work on plants. We have been observing how well the seeds we planted have been growing.

PE

We have students from Archbishop Tennison’s doing activities with the children this half term.

Other information

On Monday we will be out at Duppas Hill for a KS1 cross country event (weather permitting).