Our School Value in Focus this half term is RESPECT. This links in with the British Value of MUTUAL RESPECT. This will be discussed in assemblies this half term. 

This week is all about establishing routines and getting to know each other. Please can I encourage parents to regularly check the reading diaries and make a short comment and initial when they have heard their child read. Your child will be encouraged to change their reading books regularly in school as and when they need to, with an adult supervising the first few changes. Please practise spellings for a few minutes every day. A half termly spelling check will take place to monitor progress across the year. 

Literacy and Maths will begin this week in our groups. The children will be given their new books with a reminder about presentation expectations and our PRIDE learning values (Perseverance, Responsibility, Independence, Determination and Effort) There will be an opportunity to work towards earning a pen license in Key Stage Two which will be explained this week. 

In Literacy, we will be looking at our new text together and starting to identify nouns and verbs. We will be playing games together to help us recall these word types, as well as learning how to use these in our sentences. 

In Maths, we will be exploring how to represent numbers to 100 and to 1000. We will be using number lines to estimate the place of numbers along a line in relation to other numbers. This week will be about getting used to using resources too, and where to find them. We will be using counters, Base 10, part whole models, tens frames as well as dice and digit cards to generate our own numbers. 

History will be taught on Tuesdays with Mrs Phillips. Year 3 will be finding out what happened in the Stone Age. Year 4 will be learning where and when the Greek civilisation existed and ordering events along a timeline. Year 5 to will be finding out where the Vikings came from. 

Scienc will be taught by Mrs Murphy in Ash Class as part of the Tuesday morning rotation with History and PE. 

In RE we will be learning about the Trinity. This week we will be focusing on the symbolism of water. 

In PSHE, we will start this new year by discussing our emotions and describing different emotions. 

In Art, we will be looking at charcoal and finding out different ways in which we can use it.