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

Miss Reid  will be teaching on a Monday, Wednesday, Thursday and Friday.

Miss Conlon will be teaching on Tuesday.

We are also lucky enough to have 2 teaching assistants within the class.

Mrs Hughs will be helping with maths on a Tuesday morning.

Mrs Harrison will be in the classroom on Monday morning and all day on Friday.

PE will take place every Wednesday and Thursday Afternoon. 

For PE sessions please bring the following:

- Black shorts, legings 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 the children are given time to complete a quiz on the book they have read and change their book. 

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.

 Vikings

As writers, we will:

•  Ask relevant questions
•  Build vocabulary
•  Give well-structured descriptions, explanations and narratives
•  Participate in discussions, presentations, performances, role play, improvisations and debates
•  Consider and evaluate different viewpoints
•  Use dictionaries to check the meaning of words
•  Identify themes and conventions
•  Discuss words and phrases that capture the reader’s interest and imagination
•  Recognise different forms of poetry
•  Explain meaning of words in context
•  Draw inferences (characters’ feelings, thoughts and motives); justify with evidence
•  Predict from details stated and implied
•  Plan to write by discussing the structure, vocab and grammar of similar writing
•  Discuss and record ideas
•  Compose and rehearse sentences orally
•  Build a varied and rich vocabulary
•  Assess the effectiveness of own and others’ writing
•  Propose changes to grammar and vocabulary to improve consistency
•  Proof-read for spelling and punctuation errors
•  Read aloud own writing using appropriate intonation and controlling the tone and volume so that the meaning is clear
•  Write a fantasy story based on a fable

As mathematicians, we will be:

• Making equal groups
• Using arrays
• Looking at multiples of 2, 5 and 10
• Sharing and grouping
• Multiplying and dividing by 3
• Learning the 3 times-table
• Multiplying and dividing by 4
• Learning the 4 times-table
• Multiplying and dividing by 8
• Learning the 8 times-table

As historians, we are:

• Investigating whether Viking people were pushed or pulled from Scandinavia
• Understanding how the Vikings lived and travelled
• Knowing why the Vikings were known as invaders and raiders
• Exploring why Vikings have such a bad reputation
• Studying how similar and different the Anglo-Saxon and Viking religions were
• Discovering which treasures were the greatest treasures for the Vikings

As geographers, we will:

• Learn where Scandinavia is and what the Nordic countries are.
• Know what the climate is like in Scandinavia.
• Find out about the human and physical features of Scandinavia.
• Compare Altrincham with a town in Scandinavia.

As scientists we will:

• Describe the effects of contact forces
• Recognise the effects and uses of forces
• Interpret how and why things move differently on different surfaces
• Describe the effects of magnets
• Compare the properties of different types of magnets
• Explain the uses of magnets 

As design technicians, we will:

• Explore and investigate mechanisms.
• Plan and design a product using 2d levers and linkages.
• Make a moving puppet, to create a Viking puppet show, using 2d levers.
• Evaluate my finished product.

As computer technicians we will:

• Plan a book trailer.
• Take photos or videos that tell a story.
• Edit a video.
• Add text and transitions to a video 
• Evaluate video editing

As musicians we will:

• Move and sing as a team, following the lyrics on the screen.
• Recognise minims, crotchets and quavers often by ear and reliably by sight.
• Perform rhythms accurately from notation and layer them to create a composition.
• Add appropriate sound effects to their performances using untuned percussion.
• Join in with the performances confidently, and reasonably in time and tune.
• Make suggestions for improving their performance.

As linguists we will:

• Count to 12 in Spanish, focusing on good pronunciation.
• Recognise and sound out phonemes for letters ‘u’ and ‘z’, ‘ñ’.
• Identify the structure for saying how old they are and modify the sentence using different number words.
• Begin to recognise the verb ‘to have’ in first person present (Tengo).
• Explain what a cognate is and suggest examples.
• Apply and describe different detective skills: using logic, context and knowledge of language.
• Compare Christmas traditions from Spain with other countries.

As learners of RE we will be exploring the Big Question:

• What do people believe about God?

We will:

• Understand the beliefs about God in Hinduism.
• Learn about Jewish beliefs about God.
• Consider the differences and similarities about different views of God.
• Explore the idea that some people do not believe in God.
• To explore the Norse beliefs in God.
• Retell the Christian story of Christmas and discuss how this expresses Christian beliefs about God.

As learners of PSHE we will be learning about:

• Valuing Difference
• Feelings and Emotions
• Healthy Relationships
• Online Safety