Mrs HV
Teacher
My most memorable read as a child was a book called Mr Meddle's Mischief by Enid Blyton. Perhaps I was taken in by the thought of mischief! Mr Meddle is a pixie who can't get anything right. He's always meddling in other people's business and making dreadful muddles. From then on I went to read many of her books but my favourite was the series of The Magic Faraway Tree and The Wishing Chair. I loved these stories so much I would read them over and over again. They whisked me off to wonderful places of elves, gnomes, talking trees and so many other wonderful things.
Miss Freight
HLTA/TIS practitioner
I love to read. I can remember reading many books as a child and one of my favourites was called The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe, a fantasy style book by C S Lewis. This the first book in a series and they have been turned into films.
Four children, Lucy, Susan, Edmund and Peter are sent to a friends house in the country to escape from the bombings. During a game of hide and seek the adventure begins as they go through the wardrobe and enter the frozen land of Narnia. Many characters appear throughout the story, such as Aslan, Jadis the White Witch, Mr Tumnus, a fawn and the beavers. The children bravely join the battle to free Narnia from the evil witch's spell. This leads to a battle....well I won't tell you the end in case you choose to read it.
I loved this book and have read the series many times, I have also watched the films.
Weaved into the story are a variety of morals such as the fight of good against evil, forgiveness and courage. I hope you read this book and enjoy it as much as I did.
'Coming to England ' by Floella Benjamin
The Vikings
Summer 2
Welcome back everyone, we hope that you have had a relaxing half term break. With just one more half term to go until the summer holidays, we hope to continue to make the most of our outdoor spaces and provide children with a range of unique learning experiences. Many children will be attending residentials in June where they’ll learn new skills, join in with a range of practical activities and camp out with their friends. Please find below an overview of our plans for the next half of summer term.
Our Pathways to Write literacy unit for this half term focuses on the playscript Julius Caesar from A Stage Full of Shakespeare Stories by Angela McAllister. Our writing outcome is to write a playscript for part of the story. Children will practise their spoken language Spoken language: by speaking audibly and fluently, participating in discussions, presentations, performances, role-play, improvisations and debates. They will ask relevant questions and articulate and justify their answers. They will practise speculating, hypothesising, imagining and exploring ideas. In reading comprehension, they will identify themes and conventions and discuss words and phrases that capture the reader’s interest and imagination. They will explain meanings of words in context. Children will learn to draw inferences (characters’ feelings, thoughts and motives); and justify these with evidence. They will make predictions from details stated and implied and identify how language, structure and presentation contribute to meaning. Children will also retrieve and record information from non-fiction texts. For writing composition children will plan writing by discussing the structure, vocabulary and grammar of similar writing. They will discuss and record their ideas and compose and rehearse their sentences orally. In non-narrative material, children will use simple organisational devices. They will assess the effectiveness of their own and others’ writing and proofread for spelling and punctuation errors.
This half term’s maths for year 3 children will begin with investigating money, looking at the relationship between pounds and pence, and converting between the 2. They will add and subtract money and find change before moving on to the next unit of time. Children will learn Roman numerals to 12, tell the time to 5 minutes and to the minute. They will be able to read time on a digital clock and use a.m. and p.m. correctly. They will understand years, months and days, hours and minutes and be able to use start and end times and use durations. They will learn about minutes and seconds and units of time and solve problems with time. Finally, they will be exploring shapes, including angles and turns. Children will learn how to measure and draw angles accurately and will learn new mathematical language such as horizontal, vertical, parallel and perpendicular. Children will also learn how to recognise, draw and make a range of 2-dimensional and 3-dimensional shapes.
Year 4 children will begin the new half term’s maths learning with a topic about time, focusing on converting times between analogue and digital, and between 12-hour and 24-hour clocks. Next, they’ll move on to identifying angles and lines of symmetry in triangles, quadrilaterals and polygons in their shape topic. They will learn how to interpret charts and line graphs and discover new mathematical terms such as comparison, sum and difference in their statistics topic. The final year 4 topic will be ‘position and direction’ in which they’ll learn how to plot and translate coordinates. Year 4 also have their times table check in June, so we will be practising times tables daily.
In RE, our Humanist topic will enable us to explore themes of community and belonging, whilst celebrating Cornish culture. Our key question is- How and why do people in Cornwall mark significant events in community life? Children will learn about Cornish saints, festivals and ceremonies and identify why these are significant to Cornish people. Children will discuss what does the idea of the journey of life mean to us and will consider what gives us a sense of purpose and belonging. Children will learn about a plethora of Cornish festivals and find out why these celebrations are important. They will explore how religious and non-religious people in Cornwall show significance to the birth of a child. Key vocabulary includes, community, belonging, festival, culture, ceremony, procession, saint, baptism.
In Science this half term we will continue to explore living things and their habitats. Children will be able to label the parts and describe the functions of a flower and locate, name and explain the function of the different parts of the plant. They will observe and record a natural sequence of plant lifecycle/fruit development. They will know the different ways that seeds can be dispersed and investigate wind dispersal by setting up a fair test to compare the flight of different paper spinners. Children will observe the structure of fruits closely and make detailed drawings of them.
Our Topic for this half term will link Geography and History together and enable children to explore the local town of Charlestown, investigating how the town has changed over time, as well as its coastal landscape. Children will become historians and explore a range of artefacts that provide clues about Charlestown. We’ll discover how the town got its name, what jobs people have done in Charlestown throughout history and how the town has changed over time. We’ll also explore Geography in our local study of Charlestown, particularly in relation to how bays headlands, caves and arches are formed, plus the causes and impacts of coastal erosion.
In art this half term we shall be studying different artists and how they have created and portrayed different landscapes. Children will learn how they can use line effectively and how to shade and tone. They will experiment with different textures and create a skyline sketch of Charlestown and other local landscapes. Key Vocabulary for this unit includes landscape, skyline, perspective, horizontal line, vanishing point, shade, tone, line, texture. Children will analyse the work of Ken Done, Joan Miro, Henri Matisse, Georgia O’Keeffe, Joseph William Turner, David Hockney and Claude Monet.
In our Computing lessons, children will explore animation and stop motion. They will also discover what an onion skin is in the world of computers and how these can be used effectively. Children will be using the 2animate section of Purple Mash in these lessons.
This half term’s PE topic is Cricket. We will explore many skills including striking, fielding, attacking, defending, throwing, catching, bowling and batting. Children will learn the rules of Quik cricket and take part in a match.
The theme of this half term’s music lessons is all about the composition of classical music. Children will listen to and appraise classical music, use their voices and instruments to replicate parts of the music they have heard, and have a go at their own classical music improvisations.
In PHSE this half term we will follow the Jigsaw unit Changing Me. Year 3 children will know that in animals and humans lots of changes happen between conception and growing up. Children will learn that in humans a mother carries the baby in her uterus (womb), and this is where it develops. They will know that babies need love and care from their parents/carers and be able to discuss some of the changes that happen between being a baby and a child. Children will learn about how the male and female body begins to change at puberty so their bodies can make babies when they are adults. They will be able to discuss both inside and outside boy changes that happen during puberty.
Year 4 children will know that personal characteristics are inherited from birth parents, and this is brought about by an ovum joining with a sperm. They will learn that babies are made by a sperm joining with an ovum. They will be able to name some of the different internal and external body parts that are needed to make a baby . Children will learn how the female and male body change at puberty. Children will know that personal hygiene is important during puberty and as an adult. They will know that change is a normal part of life and that some cannot be controlled and have to be accepted. Children will know that change can bring about a range of different emotions.
Children will continue to use Languagenut for our French lessons this term. Year 3’s unit is about zoo animals and opinions. Children will be able to name in French zoo animals. They will say which animals they like and dislike. They will be able to make up sentences about their likes/ dislikes They will produce a poster about themselves using key French phrases from this year. Key Vocabulaire will include, Le lion Le tigre L’éléphant Le gorille Le zèbre Le pingouin Tu aimes les lions ? Tu aimes les gorilles ? J’aime Je n’aime pas J’aime les tigres J'aime les éléphants Je n'aime pas les zèbres Je n’aime pas les pingouins J'adore Je déteste Les crocodiles Les dauphins Les insectes Les serpents
Year 4’s will continue to explore food and drink. Children will use opinion phrases to talk about food. They will learn about some classic French dishes. They will be able to generate sentences in French describing foods they eat and like or dislike. They will talk about some classic French dishes and design a French menu. Key vocabulary includes : J'aime Je n'aime pas J'adore Je déteste Je préfère Les légumes Les fruits La viande Le poisson Le fast-food J'aime les pâtes Je déteste le poisson J'adore les fruits Je préfère le pain Je suis végétarien Je suis végétarienne Je suis végane Ma nourriture préférée est le fromage Entrées Salade Verte Pâté Soupe Plats Croque Monsieur Steak frites Desserts Mousse au chocolat Tarte tatin
There’s lots to look forward to this half term, including Sport’s Day, residentials, a trip to the beach, BB 50 things day and of course the transition days, where children will meet their new teachers and teaching assistants for the next academic year.