Class Teachers – Mrs Strange and Mrs Skinner

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

In Year 4 we will be deepening our understanding of the 7 times tables and multiplicative relationships. We will also be securing our core multiplication facts in preparation for the MTC in June.

In Year 5 we will be exploring area and scaling, calculating with decimal fractions, factors, multiples and primes.

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 a 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 PE days are Monday and Wednesday.
This term we are working on gymnastics and dance

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 – games linked to this week's spelling rule 

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

Year 4 – Each week we will be learning two new core multiplication facts in preparation for the Multiplications Tables Check in June. These will be sent home each week, please support your child in learning these facts.