Mrs Lowe
Teacher
I have so many favourite books and I read at least one new book a week! I love going to the library and discovering a new world each time I start a story. My absolute favourites are the Harry Potter books and I re-read them every year. I have such fond memories of each book coming out and getting excited to see what was going to happen next. I loved the idea of receiving a letter when you turned 11 to find out you had magical powers! My favourite book in the series is Harry Potter and Prisoner of Azkaban because I love the part where Harry and Hermione travel back in time to save Sirius. I wouldn't be able to pick a favourite character because there are so many I love but my favourite professor is Professor McGonagall!
Miss Franklin
Support Staff
My favourite children's book is The Lion, The Witch and the wardrobe. This book follows four children into a mystery world which they accidentally enter whilst hiding in a wardrobe. They experience excitement, curiosity and fear as they enter the new, mysterious world. Throughout this story the children undertake numerous challenges in order to protect each other and meet new people and creatures whilst exploring the wonders of this new, mysterious place.
We hope that you have had a lovely half term. The title for this half-term is ‘The Great Fire of London.’ Here is an overview of what we’ll be getting up to.
In History, we will looking at what life was like in London in 1666 and comparing it to our lives now. We will then focus on the main events of the Great Fire of London and how London changed after this significant event.
Our DT will link to our history and we will be designing and making a Tudor house. We will focus on the skills of cutting and joining materials and when finished, we will evaluate our houses.
In Art we will be exploring the technique of collage, and using this technique to create our own silhouette pictures of the ‘Great fire of London’.
We will be taking part in science week and thinking about careers in science and what opportunities there are in STEM.
Phonics and spelling will be taught daily alongside our English lessons. This half term we will start by exploring the story of ‘Toby and the Great Fire of London’. Then we will be completing our ‘Pathways to write’ unit, in which, we will be looking at the non-fiction book ‘The Great Fire of London’. Our writing outcome for this unit will be: To write an information text about the Great Fire of London with the facts we have learnt.
In maths, we continue to follow the White Rose scheme of work. We will completing our multiplication and division unit in which we will look at dividing by sharing and grouping, dividing by 2, 5 and 10 and doubling and halving. We will then move on to length and height; we will be comparing lengths, starting to measure using a ruler and ordering lengths and heights. After this, we will be working on mass, capacity and temperature; we will be comparing and measuring mass and capacity and learning how to read the scales on thermometers.
In P.E, we will be looking at invasion games. Children will be focusing on catching balls and passing them accurately to other team members. They will also be looking at playing tactics within a game and then will put all this learning together to play invasion games at the end of the unit.
In R.E. we will exploring the question: “Who is Jewish and how do they live?” We will be thinking about the story of David and Goliath to start and the festival of Hanukkah. After that, we will be focusing on Passover and why Jewish people celebrate this festival.
In Music, we will be completing our next ‘Charanga’ unit called ‘Recognising Different Soiunds,’ throughout the unit we be learning to listen and appraise different pieces of music. We will learn how voices and instruments work together to play different pitches that sound at the same time to create harmony. We will also be learning how to play the notes C, D, E, F, G, A, B♭, B on a glockenspiel. The end point of this song will be to take part in a performance, singing in tune with others and playing the notes of the glockenspiel in time with the music.
In computing, we will be completing our ‘coding’ unit. In this unit, we will be introduced to the program 2code and create a computer programme using algorithms. We will also learn what debugging means and learn how to do this ourselves.
In PSHCE, our next Jigsaw unit is ‘Healthy me’; we will be looking at how we can relax and be calm, how medicines help us and how they can sometimes be harmful and what foods are healthy and give us energy and which foods are unhealthy.