Dear Parents and Carers,
We hope that you have had a lovely Easter break and a restful and enjoyable time with your families. The children are looking forward to a new and exciting Summer Term ahead full of hard work and fun.
Please read below to see what we will be covering over the next term.
In English, Year 3 and Year 4 are continuing to work on Comprehension Bug. This involves a daily half an hour session where the children will complete independent activities to help them to develop comprehension skills. One of the sessions each week will be to share and discuss their answers with the teacher. During this time, Year 2 will be working on reading comprehension activities, with the support of Mrs. Gudger and Miss Walters. We will also continue to use ‘Spelling Shed‘ which we will be using alongside spelling games and activities to practise the year 2/3/4 spelling list. In writing, we will be exploring a range of Fiction and Non-Fiction texts and the children will be planning and writing these types of texts. We will be basing our writing on a range of subjects such as Science (Sound, Plants and Habitats), Geography, History and PSHE. We will also be using ‘Literacy Shed’ video clips and a range of texts to inspire our writing.
In Year 3 and 4 Maths, we will be reasoning with measures (money), working on exploring time, visualising and exploring shape and describing position, measuring and estimating length, mass and capacity and we will be investigating statistics. The units covered in Year 2 will be fractions, measures (length, height, mass, capacity and temperature), exploring position and direction and learning to tell the time. We will continue to work on ‘Mastering Number’ where the children will have a daily session to develop their times tables knowledge in Year 3 and 4, and understanding of number in Year 2. The children will also be encouraged to practise their times tables regularly using games, activities and computer programs. The expectation is that pupils should be able to recall the 2, 5 and 10 x tables facts by the end of Year 2, the 2, 3, 4, 5, 8 and 10 x tables facts by the end of Year 3 and all the times tables facts up to 12x by the end of Year 4.