Literacy
At the start of the term we continued to work on ‘The Dragon Machine’ and built upon our skills we learnt about last term about prepositions.
We then continued to build up our narrative skills and had the opportunity to practise using the prefix un, past and present words and contractions to add more detail to our work.
The children blew us away with the quality of the work they produced. It was fantastic to see the progress everyone had made since September.
We then moved onto looking at non- chronological reports. The focus of these reports was castles linked to history topic ‘Dungeons and Dragons.’
We started this topic by having a visit from the castle ditcher where the children had the opportunity to ask him question about life in castle. The children then used the information gathered to add extra detail to their reports.
The skills we built up before writing our reports focused upon the features on a non-chronological report, subject specific adjectives and different types of sentences I.e. statements, questions, commands and exclamations.
Our final piece of writing for the half term was to write a diary entry based around the story ‘Mogs Christmas.’
First we learnt about the features of a diary such as writing in the first person and then we moved onto learning about co-ordinating conjunctions (and, but and or) and subordinating conjunctions (because, that, if and when) to extend our sentences.
The children produced some excellent pieces of work with a variety of different sentences openers to engage the reader.
Maths
The first week back after half term we looked at 2D and 3D shapes. The children used the correct vocabulary to describe them and were able to sort them into different groups.
We then moved onto looking at time. We focused upon o’clock, half past, quarter to and past times on analogue clocks.
After that we looked at money and how we could used coins to make certain amounts. We also looked at adding coins and finding change.
In our final two weeks we looked at positional language including forwards, backwards, clockwise, anti-clockwise, full turn, half turn and quarter turns and then statistics. During our statistics lessons we looked at tally charts, pictograms and block graphs.
Science
Religious education
Physical education
Caring about others
The children took park in the Rudolph run to raise money for Barnsley hospice.
The children also came in odd socks for anti- bullying week and discussed how they can be good friends.
Christmas
The children enjoyed their Christmas dinner with their friends.
Class 5 put on an amazing nativity and we are VERY proud of them.
Here are our super stars...
Mary and Joseph
The shepherds
The kings
The narrators
The soldiers
And last but not least the angels.
To finish off our Christmas celebrations we had our Christmas party!
Next half term we will be learning about ...
Literacy
We literacy we will be learning all about recounts and creating our own set of instructions. The children have developed so much as writers already this year and we are looking forward to seeing them develop even further.
Maths
In maths we will start by looking at place value. During this topic we will be estimating numbers and placing them on a partially numbered number line. We will then use these skills to look at temperatures. We will then move onto addition and subtraction and start to look at the column method. Then we will look at multiplication and division focusing on comparing calculations and finding remainders. We will end the half term by looking at shape and time in more detail including telling the time to the nearest 5 minutes.
Science
In science we will be looking animals including humans. During this topic we will be looking at the basic needs required for an animals to survive, animals and their offspring, healthy eating, exercise and the importance of staying clean.
Religious Education
In RE we will look at the key question ‘how can faith contribute to community cohesion.’ During this topic we will focus on finding religious buildings in our local area, religious clothing and religious celebrations.
Physical Education
In PE we will be looking learning all about dance and movements.
PSHE
In PSHE we will be looking at Safety and the changing body. This will include: road safety, Medicines, online safety, secrets/surprises, naming body parts and privacy. Further correspondence will be sent out regarding lessons around body parts.