Term 2 Week 7– overview

Welcome back to school after a very strange week!

On Friday, we have our very exciting trip to Tablehurst Farm.  Peter the farmer and Tess the dog are really looking forward to seeing us.

Spelling and grammar – we will be consolidating the spelling words we have worked on over the course of this term.  We will also continue brushing up on correct sentence punctuation.

We will continue with our text in whole class guided reading, The Iron Man by Ted Hughes.  This is a very interesting text with rich language which we are aiming to develop by exploring a range of text types.

We will be using English time to learn and practise carols for our carol service next week.

In Maths, we will consolidate on the home learning that was set last week, in order that no pupil gets left behind.  On Thursday we dedicate time to working on our personal times tables targets.  Regular, short burst practise at home will really support this.  Each week, pupils are progressing with their personal targets which is very encouraging.

This term we will be studying a unit on Incarnation in RE.  We will discuss the Biq Question ‘what is the Trinity?’ and will examine an image related to the theme to draw out our prior knowledge.

In Science, we continue to work on sound and will complete our investigation into pitch.

In Computing, pupils will be exploring how to record and edit sound.

PE lessons are on Tuesday morning with Mrs Barter and Thursday afternoon with Mrs Tompsett.  This term we will focus on hockey and yoga. 

Reading records will be sent home, with free-reading children choosing a book from the selection in class or bringing one from the reading scheme.  All children have an additional book in their tray for reading sessions in class.  Please could we have reading records in school to be checked on Tuesday and Friday mornings.  

Homework is issued on Wednesday and is due in the following Monday morning.  It will usually consist of a Maths activity and an English activity based on what we have been learning in class.  One of these will be online, using the Purple Mash platform.  Pupils have new usernames and passwords this year, which have been stuck into the front of their homework books.

Please contact me if you have any queries using the class email address:

chestnut@st-barnabas.kent.sch.uk

Have a lovely week!

Best wishes,

Mrs Barter