Dear Parents and Carers,
Happy New Year! I hope you had a lovely festive period with your children. Class three have returned to school focused and ready for some hard work. Below is an overview of what we will be covering and what you need to know for the coming term.
In maths, our next unit is generalising arithmetic, which has a huge focus on division. Children will recap their knowledge of the bus stop method of division including answers with remainders and decimal answers. Year 5 will learn how to use rounding to check the accuracy of their answers and Year 6 will learn the formal written method of long division. Year 6 will also learn about the order of operations (BIDMAS). After half term, we will move on to investigating statistics which focuses on interpreting and presenting data in tables, bar charts, line graphs and pie charts. After that, we will explore measures including finding the perimeter and area of a range of shapes, volume and capacity and units of time, converting from analogue to digital and from 12-hour to 24-hour time. Children will continue to have a daily Mastering Number session.
In English, we will have a daily 30-minute Comprehension Bug session where the children will read a selection of age-appropriate texts, answering a range of comprehension questions. We will be using Spelling Shed alongside spelling games to practise the year 5/6 spelling list. We will have a written test each Friday. In writing, we will plan, draft and edit different text types, focusing closely on the purpose and audience of our writing. We will be basing a lot of our writing on our class book, currently Nevermoor – the Trials of Morrigan Crow by Jessica Townsend. We will also use Literacy Shed video clips, relevant news and events and a range of texts to inspire our writing. The children will write for a range of different purposes – to entertain, to inform, to persuade and to discuss.