Week beginning 27th September 2021

 

Many thanks to all those who were able to attend our Meet The Teacher Zoom session last week! If you were unable to join us, the recorded meeting (and slides) are available to access via your child’s Google Classroom.

What are we learning this week?

Maths – 

• To know how adjusting both addends affects the sum (decimal fractions)
• To be able to using the ‘same difference’ rule can make mental calculation easier
• To be able to use the ‘same difference’ rule to balance equations
• To know how increasing or decreasing the minuend affects the difference
• To solve calculations with missing addends
• To calculate the value of a missing part

English – 

This half term, our English lessons shall be centred around the core text Goodnight Mister Tom. Our weekly objectives include:

• I can use drama to help empathise with characters.
• I can write in role.
• I can build character profiles and empathise with supporting characters.
• I can engage in Book Talk.

Our class reading book is Carrie’s War, by Nina Bawden. Throughout the week, we shall be encouraging children to make connections across the two texts, as well as completing additional comprehension-based activities.

Science –

• To create an investigation to see if materials are conductors/insulators
• To record information in different forms.​

History – 

This week is our second History week, how exciting! We shall be continuing to learn about the Kingdom of Benin. This week’s lessons will include us learning more about:

• Life in Benin
• Story of Eweka
• Religion

PE – 

Our PE days are as follows:

QE2 – Tuesday and Thursday

Tower – Tuesday and Friday

Please make sure your child comes to school wearing their full PE kit.

 

Key Dates

31st October – Deadline for secondary school applications