Literacy

In Maple Class: After we complete our reading assessments at the beginning of the week, we will be moving on to using expanded noun phrases. We will be looking at pictures of the African landscape and describing them as best we can. Then editing our sentences using prepositional phrases. 

In Ash class we are going to be using the book 'Survivors' by David Long. This week we will be reading the short story about Juliane Koepcke: The girl who fell from the sky. We will be exploting the language used within the text. We will be learning about collective nouns and expanded noun phrases. We will be using expanded noun phrases to give complicated information concisely when writing about the jungle.

Maths

Y3: We are finishing our addition and subtraction unit this week, using compliments to 100, inverse operations and estimate answers. 

Y4: We are starting our unit on Area this week, it is a short unit with only a few objectives. We will be learning what area is, counting squares in shapes, making shapes and comparing area. 

Science

Yr 3 - We will be learning about different food groups. We will be identify which foods are carbohydrates, proteins, dairy, fats and sugars. 

Yr 4 - We are enjoying learning about solids, liquids and gases. This week we are learning about how they can change state with the help of freezing and heating. We will learn about condensation and evaportation. 

Geography

Y3: We will be locating rivers and seas in and around the UK. 

Y4: We will be learning about longitude and latitude this week, using a range of globes and maps. 

Y5: Using maps this week, we will be locating mountains in the UK. 

Computing

Y3: We are using flowcharts to begin our Coding unit this week. We will be reading code and testing out operations before using code of our own. 

Y4: We will be using writing for different purposes, and looking at how font styles can make a difference to the audience. Looking at news reports and other formats, we will be editing our own newspaper reports using a range of fonts. 

RE

Our new unit is asking, 'Why is the gospel good news for Christians?' This week, we will be engaging with the concept of good news and discussing what is good news is for us. We will be looking at a range of pictures and photos of good news for other people. We will be looking at how this unit fits into our last unit and why we are learning about this now.