Happy New Year! I hope you all had a restful Christmas break! This letter will give you an insight into all the interesting learning that will be occurring in Chestnut class during the Spring term.
This term our theme is ‘The Victorians' and in history, we will be looking at the life of Queen Victoria, schooling, leisure and daily life for the Victorians. In art, we will be researching the famous artist William Morris and creating our own printing, inspired by his designs.
In English, we are learning about different types of formality in our writing. We have been writing to Ben Miller as part of Author’s Week. We are going to look at two different texts – ‘Street Child’ and Tom’s Midnight Garden’ and will be using some drama to represent characters, as well as writing reports, a character and setting description.
In reading, we will continue to focus on comprehension of texts weekly, looking at Vocabulary, Inference, Prediction, Explanation, Retrieval and Summarising (VIPERS). The children will be learning about texts related to our topic, as well as looking at a variety of different texts and films.
Spelling, punctuation and grammar will be taught, which will then be linked to our theme and the English lessons, where children can use their learning in context. We will be using dictation during our spelling lessons, which encourage the children to write full sentences with their spelling words in.
We will be looking at a different group of spellings each week that follow the National Curriculum and these will be on the homework for the children to practise.
In maths, we have been practising formal methods during our multiplication and division topic. We are now looking at multiplying fractions by integers and finding fractions of amounts. We will then be learning about decimals and area, perimeter and volume.
In R.E, we are looking at Hinduism and our big question is ‘How do questions and Braham and atman influence the way a Hindu lives?'. The children will be exploring ideas about God in different religions and how beliefs in the Hindu religion link to community and daily living.
In science, we are learning all about living things and their habitats. We are learning how to classify different organisms, such as plants, trees and animals.
Just a reminder that our PE day is Monday and swimming in on Fridays.
Homework will be given out on a Friday and will be expected back by the following Wednesday morning.
If there are any questions, please feel free to ask after school.
Thank you,
Miss Coote (Class Teacher)
Miss Hawkes (Teaching Assistant)