Friday, 10th January 2025

Happy New Year and welcome back!

It has been lovely to see the children after the Christmas holidays and hear how grateful they were for their experiences and presents. The children reflected on their favourite memories by filling their ‘Jars’, which we have displayed on our classroom door.

We started new units in many subjects this term. We are learning about information texts in English as a lead up to the children’s final outcome: non-chronological reports based on penguins. We compared a variety of non-fiction books to fiction ones this week, as well as, identifying text features of information texts, such as: titles, sub-headings, labels, diagrams, captions, paragraphs and technical language. We also launched our SPaG revision sessions with a focus on sentence structure, key punctuation, word families and spelling.

In Maths, we moved onto subtraction strategies and practised 3 different ways to subtract single digit numbers from 2 digit numbers up to a hundred.

In RE, we celebrated the Epiphany by participating in a Collective Worship wearing crowns made before the holidays, as well as, spending time planning for Collective Worships that the children will lead themselves in class in small Liturgy Groups starting next week Tuesday.

In PE, we used the hall to start our next unit of work on Gymnastics and looked at various ways of travelling as well as balances and turns. We created routines of 3x 8 counts with a different quarter turn in between.

In Geography, we compared the Antarctic to the Sahara Desert noticing how they are actually quite similar. They lack rainfall, they are barren with extreme temperatures and are habitat to species (plants and animals) that needed to adapt in order to survive these conditions. We later used information texts to compare the penguins we learnt about before to the camel and again notice similarities in their bodies and way of life.

PE lessons will continue to be on Mondays and Wednesdays. Please ensure that if girls are wearing tights due to the cold temperatures, they have a pair of socks to change into as children often have to use apparatus (gymanstics) barefeet.

Our Class Assembly originally scheduled for Friday, 31st January 2025 had to be moved to Friday 7th March due to unforseen circumstances.

Have a lovely weekend,

Ms Varga

Home Learning

Spelling– please log onto Spelling Shed and see the assigned lists. https://www.edshed.com/en-gb

Reading– Please continue to read with your child and sign reading records.

Maths– Please log onto Mathletics and complete the assigned tasks. https://login.mathletics.com/

Please also continue to access multiplication practice through TTRockstars. https://play.ttrockstars.com/   Well done to Ianis, who is our overall leader!