Welcome back!  I hope you all had a nice half term!  

This half term our topic is:

Our Local Area

This is a cross curricular theme and will be explored through all areas of learning.

RE:

Religious Education is central to all that we do and Collective worship and celebration are an essential part of this. Please pray with your children at home and help them learn the school prayers and the Our Father.

Our topic this half term is Holidays and Holydays. The children will discuss what a holiday is and what makes a holiday a happy time. They will learn about all the different holy days that we celebrate and will read and retell biblical stories linked to Pentecost and Ascension.

English:

Reading

The children will be doing lots of reading as a class, in a group and individually. This half term they will be reading a variety of fiction and non-fiction texts and answering questions about them. The children will continue to read lots of new words on sight and use their phonic knowledge to sound out new words. They will be encouraged to develop their comprehension skills by retelling / discussing texts they have read, predicting what might happen in a story and begin to make inferences on the basis of what is being said and done.

Writing

The children will continue to construct exciting sentences using adjectives and building up their use of punctuation. They will also be using conjunctions (joining words) to extend their sentences. The children will have opportunities to write their own information pages about Crouch End and a letter home about what they have learnt in relation to their school’s local area.

Grammar and Punctuation

The children will continue to learn how to use ‘and’ ‘because’ ‘but’ and ‘so’ to join words and clauses. They will continue to learn how to punctuate sentences using a capital letter and a full stop, question mark or exclamation mark. They will continue to add adjectives to make their writing more interesting.

Phonics

We will be continuing with Phase 5 and the children will continue to apply what they have learnt in Phases 2-4. Phase 5 will be looking at different ways of spelling the same sound (eg. ay in day and ai in snail). Please continue to learn the sounds that are uploaded onto google Classroom  for the spelling quiz on a Friday.

Spelling books will be handed out every Friday so you can see how your child has done in their spelling quiz and to go over any incorrections. Please ensure your child’s spelling book is returned on the Monday.

Maths:

In maths, the children will be recapping counting in 2s, 5s and 10s and will be learning about equal groups and arrays. They will begin to understand that repeated addition is a strategy of multiplication and that sharing is a strategy of division.

Computing:

In computing we will be looking at different forms of information. We will be thinking about how information can be represented in different ways by sorting into categories such as text, symbols, pictures and sound. The children will also insert images from clip art and add text boxes to a blank Word document.

Art & Design:

In Art the children will be drawing iconic London buildings and houses from observation around our school. They will also be investigating the materials used for buildings in our local area. They will take rubbings from different surfaces around the playground and use them to create a collage in pairs of a building.

PE:

In PE, the children will be doing Gymnastics. They will be learning how to roll on various parts of their body and using the skills they have learnt to complete a forward roll successfully. The children will also link a sequence of movements and perform them on different apparatus.

Music:

The children will have music every week with Mrs Hoskins. They will learn how to use their voices creatively and expressively by singing a variety of topic related songs and they will have opportunities to play instruments musically.

Please do not hesitate to make an appointment after school to see us if you have any queries 🙂