This year you are lucky enough to have two different teachers and two teaching assistants within your class.

Mrs Bramwell -  Class teacher on a Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday.

Mrs Chappels - Class teacher on a Wednesday, Thursday and Friday.

Mrs Fowles - Teaching assistant. 

Mrs Warren - Teaching assistant. 

 

PE will take place every Monday and Thursday, when you will complete dance and target games. 

For PE sessions please bring the following:

- Black shorts, leggings or jogging bottoms

- White t-shirt or polo shirt

- Black pumps or trainers

It is usually best to leave your child's PE kit in school for the half-term so that it is always available to use.

It is important that your child brings their reading book into school each day as the days on which they will be able to read with an adult may change from time to time. It is also crucial that you listen to your child read each evening and ensure that you sign their reading record highlighting what they have read and how they performed. 

Within this class reading records will be checked and additional home reading books will be changed on a Thursday. Children's Book Bag Books will be changed when needed by their Read Write Inc teacher and they will be taken to their RWI classes daily.

Homework will be set on a Tuesday through our online learning platform, SeeSaw. A link for which is placed below:

https://app.seesaw.me/#/login

All homework should be completed by the following Monday and will be checked by your teacher on this day. Please make sure that if you are having difficulties with the homework, that you contact your class teacher with plenty of time so that they can assist your child in its completion. In addition, the school also run a homework club which can really help support those children that struggle completing their tasks independently.

Topic - Investigating India

 

As mathematicians, we will learn about:

- Addition and subtraction

- Adding and subtracting to a multiple of ten

- Adding and subtracting across a ten

- Adding and subtracting to a ten

- 10 more, 10 less than a 2 digit number

- Subtracting a 1 digit number from a 2 digit number

- Adding and subtracting two 2 digit numbers

- Missing number problems

- Counting in 2s, 5s, 10s and 3s

- 2D and 3D shapes

- Lines of symmetry

- Making patterns with 2D and 3D shapes

 

As writers, we will learn about:

- Working as a community and team in the story Stone Soup

- Write instructions for Stone Soup

- Read The Owl who was afraid of the dark by Jill Tomlinson

- Sequence sentences to form short narratives

- Join words and clauses using and

- Use subordination (because)

- Add suffixes to verbs where no change is needed to the root

- Write expanded noun phrases to describe and specify

- Use co-ordination (but, or)

- Add -ly to turn adjectives into adverbs

- Use commas to separate items in a list

- Writing a fact sheet about owls using information gathered from the text

 

As scientists we will learn:

- To begin to understand some of the life processes, including movement, reproduction, sensitivity, growth, excretion and nutrition.

- To know the difference between things that are living, dead, and things that have never been alive, using some of the life processes.

- To know a variety of plants and animals and describe some differences. To name a variety of habitats, including woodland, ocean, rainforest and coastal.

- To know that a habitat is the environment where an animal or plant lives/grows because it provides what they need to survive. 

- To know that living things depend upon each other (e.g. for food, shelter.)

- To understand that a food chain can be used to show how animals obtain food from eating either plants and/or other animals.

 

As Geographers we will:

- Use world maps, atlases and globes to identify and locate continents, oceans, India & UK.

- Compare weather conditions in New Delhi India and Manchester England.

- Understand how seasonal changes relate to changes in the weather and that the UK experiences four seasons: Spring, Summer, Autumn and Winter and India experiences three: winter - summer and the monsoon.

- Record weather changes over time.

- Name different landscapes and features seen in India (jungle, city, village, desert, coast, mountain, valley. River Ganges)

- Know the difference between a human feature and a physical feature.

- Compare human and physical features of two places England and India.

- Know the difference between a human feature and a physical feature of a landscape.

- Identify and name physical features of India and England such as rivers, mountains, canals, churches, houses, train stations, lakes, beaches, oceans

- Compare and identify similarities and differences between Chembakolli and Timperley including lifestyle, homes, utilities and transport.

 

As Historians we will:

Know what an empire is.

Know that Britain used to have an empire.

Know that India used to be part of the British Empire.

Know how Britain came to rule over India.

Know some of the impacts the British Empire had on India.

Know some of the impacts the British Empire had on Britain.

Know who Mahatma Gandhi was.

Know how Gandhi helped bring about the end of the British Empire in India.

 

As Design Technicians we will:

- Design purposeful, functional, appealing products for themselves and other users based on design criteria

- Generate, develop, model and communicate their ideas through talking, drawing, templates, and mock-ups

- Select from and use a range of tools and equipment to perform practical tasks [for example, cutting, shaping, joining and finishing]

- Select from and use a wide range of materials and components, including construction materials, textiles and ingredients, according to their characteristics

- Explore and evaluate a range of existing products

- Evaluate their ideas and products against design criteria

 

As Computer Technicians we will:

- Represent animal-themed data in different ways, using objects and technology.

- Log in and use mouse and keyboard skills to navigate the computer.

- Represent the same data as a pictogram and a table or chart.

- Collect data about minibeasts using a tally chart and represent data digitally.

- Click and drag objects to sort data using a branching database.

- Consider the types of input used to gather different forms of data when designing an invention.

 

As Musicians we will be learning:

- To listen to and analyse a film musical version of a traditional story.

- To write a playscript and select appropriate musical sounds to accompany it.

- To perform a story script of Jack and the Beanstalk with accompanying music.

 

As students of Religious Education we will think about:

- What do people do, give or sing, remember, or think about at harvest?

- How do Jewish people celebrate Chanukah?

- How do Christians celebrate and express their beliefs for Christmas?

- Can I ask questions about a Christian festival?

 

As students of PSHE we will learn:

- To think of a realistic goal and think about how to achieve it.

- To learn about the process of growing from young to old and how people’s needs change.

- To learn about the new opportunities and responsibilities that increasing independence may bring.

- To understand how to make real, informed choices that will improve your physical and emotional health, and to recognise that choices can have good and not so good consequences.

- To understand which food choices are healthy for us.