Welcome back! We hope that everyone had a wonderful Christmas and are now ready for the term ahead.
Our topic for the spring term is ‘Horrible Histories’. It would be useful if children could watch some of the Horrible History programmes at home, as we are hoping to make our own Horrible Histories TV show.
In Literacy, we are beginning by studying the narrative poem ‘The Highwayman’ by Alfred Noyes. We will be exploring what historical information we can gain from literature and also exploring different characters’ perspectives.
In maths, our focus is on fractions for the first half term. We will be covering the following aspects:
- calculating fractions of numbers and quantities
- solving word problems involving fractions
- recognising equivalent fractions and simplifying fractions
- ordering and comparing fractions
- converting between mixed numbers and improper fractions
- adding and subtracting fractions
- multiplying fractions by a whole number
This will include a range of question types to focus on fluency, reasoning and problem solving.
Reminders:
P.E. is on a Tuesday and a Thursday.
Homework is set on a Wednesday and is due back the following Monday. This will include weekly spellings to learn and to write in an interesting sentence, and one piece of other homework (either Maths, Literacy or Topic).