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

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?’. We will learn all 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-quarters). Please continue to use Timetables Rockstar at home. You’ll find log-in details in the front of reading records!

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

Reading

Each morning I will ask your child if they need to change their reading books. Every day the children will have the opportunity to read during our afternoon ‘DEAR time’ (drop everything and read time). Some children will be starting our ‘Accelerated Reading’ program where they will complete quizzes that test their comprehension of the books they have read. Others will continue using our Little Wandle books. We will try our hardest to make sure we hear your children read at least once a week. Please do read with your child at home as often as possible, it makes such a difference and really boosts their love of books! If possible, please ask your children questions about the book they are reading to increase their understanding of the text. It is better that a child takes slightly longer to read a book and fully grasps its contents, than speeding through a text without having understood it. We ask the children to read through each book 3 times.

Spellings

Spellings will be sent out on a Friday and a spelling test will be completed the following Friday. Please try and practice these at home.

Please do let me know if you have any queries

Miss Swain

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