Term 1 Week 1 – overview

Each week we are fortunate to have a ukulele lesson with Mr Lawrence.  This year, this will take place on a Monday afternoon.  Instruments are provided by the school.

Spelling and grammar –we will be practising the homophones groan, grown, affect, effect, fair, fare, great, grate, through and threw.  We will also be revising determiners and clauses.

In English, we are going to be exploring the book ‘The Artist’ by Ed Vere.  We will be sharing the book, making predictions about the outcome and adding our own images.  We will be digging into the emotions of the artist and how other people respond to them.  We will explore setting and will create our own speech.

In Maths, we are beginning the year with a unit on place value.  We will represent and partition numbers to 1,000, work with number lines to 1,000and represent numbers to 10,000.

In RE, we will begin our unit on Creation.  We will be considering what Christians learn from the text of Genesis.  We will also consider what we think is amazing in the natural world.

This term we are learning about sound in Science.  This week we will be thinking about what we already know and then investigating vibration.

We have already begun learning about how the Romans changed Britain.  This week we will place the Roman Empire in a wider historical context as well as ordering key events in the lifespan of the Empire.

PE is on Monday morning with Mrs Barter and on a Thursday afternoon with Mrs Tompsett.   This term we are going to be practising football and basketball skills.

Reading records will be sent home with free reading children choosing a book from the selection in class or bringing one from the reading scheme.  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 Tuesday and Thursday mornings.  

Homework will be issued this Wednesday and is due on the following Monday.

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