Literacy in Maple Class

We will be planning our stories this week focusing on description and punctuation. 

Literacy in Ash

We will be creating a word bank to help us with our description writing. We will be focusing on adjectives, verbs, relative clauses, opinions, emotions and figurative language. 

Science

Yr 3 - We will continue observing our plant growth investigation. At the moment, the seeds have grown better in the pots with 8 seeds rather than 1 or 2 seeds. 

Yr 4 - We will be doing a practical linking to our learning on our digestive system.

Yr 5 - We will be learning about asexual reproduction.

Maths

Yr 3 - We will be starting a new unit this week using pictograms, bar charts and how to collect and represent data. 

Yr 4 - We will be getting the data loggers out this week and seeing how we can use these to support our maths work on statistics. 

RE

We will be exploring Muhammad's role as the final prophet in Muslim narrative and what changes people need to make to become Muslims. 

Geography

Yr 3 - We are surveying the land this week, and I think I will take the children out onto the field instead of the local area. We will be measuring the land, consider how the land is used before drawing our sketch map. 

Yr 4 - We will be explaining how clouds are formed from the changing of temperature. We will also be naming different types of clouds. 

Yr 5 - We will be learning and using the 8 compass points. We will be following directions and a route. 

DT - Cooking

This half term we will be cooking over as few mornings later in half term. In preparation for this, we will be researching, planning and taste testing before we make our final products. Our unit will be, 'Healthy and Varied Diet' with a focus on making wraps, pittas and sandwiches. We will be learning skills such as grating, spreading, slicing and cutting using the bridging technique.