Welcome to Merlin Class

This half term in Maths, we will be learning about ‘shape’ and ‘position and direction’ and then finally starting the topic of ‘decimals’. We will again be following the White Rose Maths scheme for these lessons and assessing the children on their learning, both through the end of unit assessments and their MyMaths homework.

In English , the children will get the opportunity to read some exciting new texts, including ‘Kaspar, Prince of Cats’ by  Michael Morpurgo. This will lead to the children creating newspaper articles. After this, we will be reading ‘Children of the Benin Kingdom’ by Dina Orji. We will then write non-chronological reports.

The focus of Science will be human growth and development. The children will look at reproduction as well as how the human body develops throughout its lifetime.

In Guided Reading lessons, the children will continue to answer a range of questions focusing on the key areas of: vocabulary, inference, prediction, explanations, retrieval and summarising, which will help us assess their understanding of the children’s set class text.

In our other foundation lessons, the children will be learning about how Jewish people support the community; in Spanish the children will be learning about Romans; In History, the children will be learning about the Mayans, including looking at Mayan temples; in PE we will be doing swimming in which children will aim towards being able to swim 25m unassisted, followed by a few weeks learning about playing cricket.

Spellings will be sent out every Friday, with an assessment on the following Friday. Please continue to encourage the children to practise their spellings using their word lists and to read as frequently as possible.

MyMaths homework is also set every Friday and is due the following Friday. It is recommended that the homework is finished by Thursday night to ensure submission within the due date. 

PE is scheduled for every Monday, so children should come dressed appropriately.

Children are recommended to have applied suncream before school as the weather becomes hotter.

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