Term 6 Week 1– overview

Reading challenge – we have made a visual display to track our home reading.  Each week when reading records are checked, every child who brings their record (completed with their weekly reading) they will earn a star.  Remember that 10 minutes reading each day makes a huge difference to overall literacy and especially expanding vocabulary!

Spelling and grammar – we are revising ‘ous’ spellings, determiners and co-ordinating conjunctions.

In English, we are continuing with our unit based on the Anglo-Saxon epic poem Beowulf.  This week, we will be considering how we can use various techniques to create tension in our own writing.  We will be carrying out brainstorming to help us plan the details of our own versions of this tale.

In Maths, we will complete our learning about fractions with subtracting from mixed numbers and completing an end of unit assessment.  We will also be practising for the national times tables assessment and will begin taking it from the end of the week.

In guided reading we will be continuing our new text, Varjak Paw by SF Said.  It is a mysterious tale set around a family of Mesopotamian Blue cats……

In RE our unit of focus is ‘What do Hindu people believe about God?’  We will be learning about reincarnation, karma and moksha.

Mrs Atkinson will be teaching Science on Monday afternoons.  This term’s topic is habitats.

In History, we will be learning about the Anglo-Saxons.  This week we will be discovering the archaeological evidence provided by Sutton Hoo and considering how it can be used as a source to help understand aspects of Anglo-Saxon life.

PE is on MONDAY MORNING with Mr Luckhurst.  Swimming is on Friday.

Reading records have been sent home with most children choosing a book from the selection in class.  All children have an additional book in their tray for reading sessions in class.  Please could we have reading records in school to be checked on a Wednesday morning.  

Homework will be issued this Wednesday and is due in on the following Tuesday because of the Bank Holiday.

Please contact me if you have any queries using the class email address:chestnut@st-barnabas.kent.sch.uk

Have a lovely week!

Best wishes,

Mrs Barter