This year you are lucky enough to have 2 different teachers within your class.

Mrs Stephani will be teaching on a Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday.

Mrs Ellingford will be teaching on Wednesday, Thursday and Friday.

Mrs Brown will be supporting the class with their learning on Monday. Tuesday, Thursday and Friday.

Mrs Harrison will be supporting the class  with their learning on a Wednesday.

PE will take place every Monday morning and Wednesday morning.

Monday will be musical theatre and Wednesday will be a games session. 

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 books changed on a Friday.

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.

Investigating India

In Literacy, our text this term is Nibbles the Book Eating Monster by Emma Yarlett

The focus for our writing will be:

• join words using and
• punctuate sentences using a capital letter and a full stop
• use capital letters for names of people
• sequence sentences to form short narratives (link ideas or event by pronoun)
• Spell words containing phonemes already taught
• Use plural noun suffixes –s and -es

We will design wanted posters, recap on featured fairy stories that Nibbles has eaten (Jack and the Beanstalk, Little Red Riding Hood and Goldilocks and the Three Bears) empathising with the characters to write about their feelings and writing as Nibbles to complete a diary entry.

As mathematicians, we will be:

• Introducing parts and wholes
• Learning about part-whole models
• Writing number sentences
• Understanding fact families - addition facts
• Understanding number bonds within 10
• Understanding systematic number bonds within 10
• Understanding number bonds to 10
• Understanding addition - add together
• Understanding addition - add more
• Understanding addition problems
• To find a part
• Understanding subtraction - find a part
• Understanding fact families - the eight facts
• Understanding subtraction - take away/cross out (How many left?)
• Understanding subtraction - take away (How many left?)
• Understanding subtraction on a number line
• To add or subtract 1 or 2
• To recognise and name 3-D shapes
• To sort 3-D shapes
• To recognise and name 2-D shapes
• Sorting 2-D shapes
• Understanding patterns with 2-D and 3-D shapes

As scientists we will learn:

• The name and order of the four seasons: spring, summer, autumn and winter.
• That it is unsafe to look directly at the Sun.
• The weather associated with the four seasons and how it changes (in the UK).
• That day length varies across the four seasons, with fewer daylight hours in the winter and more in the summer.
• About a range of jobs and careers that use scientific knowledge and methods, e.g. weather reporter.
• Explore the world around us and raise simple questions.
• To collect data in the form of pictograms and analyse the data, answering simple questions based on the data.

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 think about:

• How does it feel to be good at something?
• How do we know if we are good at something?
• How have I changed?
• How does it feel when things change or we lose something precious?
• What can we do to help ourselves and others when this happens?