Don't forget the Bank Holiday this week!

Tuesday - The Yr 4's are visiting the library in the afternoon as part of our drive to promote reading for pleasure. Please bring a library card if you have one. 

Literacy in Ash

This week we will be writing a character description. We will revisiting main and subordinate clauses, focusing on starting our sentences in different ways and also learning how to use colons and semi-colons correctly in our writing.

Literacy in Maple Class

After considering how the Iron Man is feeling in chapter 2, we will be writing letters to the Iron Man from Hogarth, before using drama to explore chapter 3.

Maths

Yr 4 -  We are learning about Money so this week we will be comparing amounts of money, estimating money and calculating with money.

Yr 5 - We are starting  a new unit, Position and Direction. This week we will be reading and plotting coordinates, problem solving with coordinates, translating shapes and translating using coordinates.

Science

Yr 3 - We will be finishing our Light unit this week, we juts need to evaluate our shadow investigation.

Yr 4 - We are starting our new unit, The Digestive System. To begin with we will be learning about teeth, carnivores, herbivores and omnivores.

Yr 5 - We will be learning about the life cycles of amphibians and insects. 

History 

Y3: We will be looking at exploration and discovery from the Mayan civilisation this week, looking at a range of artefacts and sources to see what we can learn. 

Y4: We will be learning about who Boudicca was and why she lead a rebellion. 

Y5: The children will be introduced to the oral tradition of African history and the story of Eweka, the rise to power of the first Oba of Benin in AD 1180. 

Computing

Yr 4 -  We will be learning about the history of stop motion animation by looking at Wallace and Gromit.

Yr 5 - We will be creating out own 3D name badge. We will be rotating objects in three dimensions, duplicating 3D objects and grouping 3D objects together.

RE

This week we will be exploring ideas about the Tawhid in Muslim stories/Quranic text.

Our key questions this week are:

• What do Muslims need to remember all over the world?
• How did the Prophet Muhammed help Muslims remember the oneness of Allah?

Art

This week we will begin to create our set design. Remember to bring in any materials/cardboard that you might need.