Literacy in Maple Class

We are starting our new text this week, 'Ocean Meets Sky' by the Fan Brothers. Our grammar objective for the half term is to use a range of conjunctions to extend sentences with more than one clause. We will be making predictions and inferences this week, and identifying the main ideas and summarising what we have read. 

Literacy in Ash Class

In Literacy we will be continuing to read 'The Boy at the Back of the Class'. Before half term we were looking at formal and informal language. We will be planning and writing a formal letter asking for help to find Ahmet's parents.

Science

Yr 3 - This week we will be carrying out our soil investigation that we planned before half term. We will find out which soil absorbs the most water.

Yr 4 - We are starting a new unit - Electricity. This week we will be looking at electrical applicances.

Yr 5 - We will be planning an investigation to see which material is the best insulator.

History

Year 3 and and Year 5 will be learning to read hieroglyphs. Using their skills, they will be decoding messages and writing to their friends. 

Year 4 will be looking at artefacts from the Shang Dynasty and asking what we can learn about the past from these. 

Maths

Y3 and Y4 - We are learning about fractions this week. We will be introducing improper fractions to year 4 and converting fractions with mixed numbers. Year 3s will be looking at fractions on a number line. 

RE

We will be engaging with the idea of salvation this week. What does it mean to be saved? Rescued? Who is a hero? Or a saviour?

DT

We will be creating our design briefs this week asking, 'Who is our product for? What will it hold?'