Teacher: Miss Swain
PPA Teacher: Mr Hayes
Teaching Assistant: Mrs Newing

This page is dedicated to all the exciting things we will be doing in class this year.

Dear Magpies,

Term 5

Dear Parents/Carers

Literacy/Topic

This term our topic is, ‘What if Samuel Pepys never wrote a diary?’, allowing us to learn about the Great Fire of London. In our Literacy lessons we’ll be using both fiction and non-fiction texts to help us write newspaper reports and diary entries. We will research the Great Fire of London, compare differences between the present day and 1666 and create our own Tudor houses.

Maths

In Maths this term we will learn about fractions (finding a quarter, half and three-quarter). Science Our focus for this term will be ‘plants’. We’ll be looking at seeds and bulbs and how they grow into plants. We are lucky enough to have an outdoor area where we will get a chance to do our own planting!

Please do read with your child at home as often as possible, it makes such a difference and really boosts their love of books! I would also encourage you to ask your children questions about the book they have read to boost their understanding of the text. It is better that a child takes slightly longer to read a text and fully grasps its contents, than speeding through a text without having understood it.

P.E. will be taught on Tuesday and Wednesday. School uniform should be worn into school and children will get changed before their P.E lesson. Please bring P.E kit (plimsolls/trainers, shorts/tracksuits, T-shirt and jumper) to stay at school.

Spellings will be sent out on a Friday and a spelling test will be completed the following Friday.

Please do let me know if you have any queries

Miss Swain

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