Term 3 Week 2 – overview

Please remember that homework books are due in on Monday, and reading records are checked on Tuesday and Friday.  We have a number that haven’t been seen for a while!  Expectations will gradually increase as children move through key stage 2, to prepare for the demands of secondary school.  Please do let me know if you have mislaid either the reading record or the homework book so I can replace it.

Our usual ukulele lesson with Mr Lawrence will take place on Monday afternoon.

Spelling and grammar – we will be learning spelling words ending with ‘gue’, such as tongue and vague, and words ending with ‘que’ such as unique and opaque.  We will also be working on sentence structure based on feedback from the first part of our story writing.

In English, as per last week, we will be tackling our Pompeii escape story.   We will be writing, editing and publishing these stories over the next 2 weeks.

We began a new text in guided reading, called Lob.   This text is beautifully written and illustrated and will introduce pupils to some broad and rich vocabulary.

In Maths, we will work on the 12 times table multiplication and division facts, examining the relationships and patterns we can identify.  We will then work on multiplying by 1 and 0, dividing by 1 and itself and multiplying 3 numbers.  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 towards their personal targets, which is very encouraging.

In RE, we will be looking at the accounts of the Gospel, written by Matthew, Mark, Luke and John.  We will consider what Gospel means and what the news was that they wrote of.

We will continue to explore sound in our science lesson, with an investigation into sound insulation.

In history, we will think about the Roman technologies that changed Britain and are still in evidence today!

Computing this term will be on repeating shapes.

PE continues to be on a Tuesday morning and Thursday afternoon.  Our units of work this term are gymnastics and fitness. 

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.  

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