Dear Parent/Carer, During the second half of the Spring term, year 6 will be covering the following topics: Numeracy: Ratio and proportion, investigation techniques, 24 hour clock, the use of timetables, mental calculation strategies, the standard written methods for addition, subtraction multiplication and division and properties of numbers. Literacy: Aesop’s fables, studying the book … Continue reading
Dear Parent/Carer, During term 4, year 5 will be covering the following topics: Numeracy: Decimals, percentages, ‘four-rules’ revision and problem solving. Literacy: ‘Zathura’ by Chris Van Allsburg, instruction writing and reading comprehension techniques Science: Earth and Space (including rocket design and investigations of insulation and gases). History: World War II (this term focusing … Continue reading
Dear Parents/Carers Our topic this term is Seasonal Changes and Weather. We will be looking at all different aspects of the weather and seasons including temperature, climates, daily local weather, seasonal food, clothes and art. Literacy: As always our priority will be ensuring that children can read and do so fluently and with expression. Using … Continue reading
Dear Parent/ Carer During term 4 we will be covering the following topics: Literacy: We will be studying some of Shakespeare’s work, writing and performing plays and thinking about plots, settings and characters for suspense stories, along with some poetry, reading comprehension and grammar particularly adverbials. Numeracy: We will be looking at dividing 2 and … Continue reading
Dear Parent/Carer Welcome back to the second half of the spring term. Topic: Most of our learning will be done through focusing on our Topic which this term is ‘Castles and Knights’. Science: We are carrying on with Materials in Science, re-capping on what we have learnt in Year 1 and investigating in further depth … Continue reading
Dear Parents, Our new Topic will be Space; we will be exploring many aspects of space. This topic will involve space vehicles, the planets and getting to know our planet. Below is some information on aspects of learning that we will be covering between now and the end of term. Personal, Social and Emotional DevelopmentNow … Continue reading
Dear Parent/Carer,Spring Term 4:Topic: Our new area of learning this term will be The UK. We will be exploring the counties and cities; rivers and seas and hills and mountains of the UK. We will be learning to use maps and atlases accurately and hopefully answer any questions that the children come up with about … Continue reading
Dear Parents, Our new Topic will be Occupations. This topic will involve learning about different occupations. From vets to builders. We will explore the different jobs people do to help people. As part of this learning, we have planned a trip to KidZania on the 31 January 2020. To enhance our topic this term we … Continue reading
Dear Parent/Carer,Spring Term 3:Topic: Our new area of learning this term will be Rainforests. We will be linking this work to our daily literacy hour and this will enable children to use the knowledge about rainforests to help them write informed accounts of the habitats and animals that live there.Art: Our art will be linked … Continue reading
Dear Parent/Carer, During the first half of the Spring term, year 6 will be covering the following topics: Numeracy: Fractions, decimals, co-ordinates, reflection, translation and rotation of shapes, areas and perimeters and addition, subtraction, multiplication and division techniques. Literacy: Reading paper techniques, conducting a study on an author and studying the book ‘Kensuke’s Kingdom’ by … Continue reading
This term Tiki has regularly visited the residents at Pelham House alongside the children reading…
It has been great to see some of the things you have been doing at…
In Topic we have been learning about some of the kings that ruled our country…
This term Year 1 were looking at the seasons. In October, we went for an…
