Class Teachers – Mrs Strange and Mrs Skinner

Term Two

Our enquiry is: Why is South America Important?

This term, the children will be exploring the big question: “Why is South America Important?” To help us investigate this, we will work through a series of mini-enquiries: Where is South America? What countries are in South America? What are the physical and human features of South America? Who first created human features? What does a city look like now?

English 

We will be doing daily reading and writing lessons based upon The Promise. 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 The Explorer as our class text. 

Maths

Across the term, the children will develop themselves as mathematicians. We will work on column addition and subtraction, perimeter and times tables.

The children will also have daily mastering number sessions to support them in preparing for the MTC (Year 4) towards the end of the school year.

R.E

In R.E we are exploring why religion looks different around the world.  

PSHE

This term’s unit is Families and Relationships.
We will discuss and reflect on similarities and differences, respect, anti-bullying, and stereotypes.

PE

Our P.E. days are Monday and Wednesday.
This term, we will focus on developing ball skills during football.

Home learning

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

• Reading as often as possible – ideally 5 times a week
• Practising times tables on TT Rockstars (go into garage)
• Spelling shed – complete the assignment (specific words) set each week by Mrs Strange

Children have logins for the websites above in their reading records. Please let Mrs Strange know if the children need another copy of their log-in details.