Reading and Writing

We did a very interesting unit on poetry based on ‘Dragons Wood’. The children  enjoyed creating their own poems in the same style. The teachers enjoyed reading them!

Thank you for your support in listening to your child read and also supporting them with learning their spellings. We cannot emphasise enough how important this is.

Maths

In maths we have been looking at multiplication. Children have been learning how to multiply a 2 digit and 3 digit number by a 1 digit number.

We are continuing to learn our times tables in readiness for the statutory test in June.  Children are making good progress towards this and we encourage them to continue learning these at home. We urge you to let your children have a go at the tests on the following website to support them to learn their times tables.

www.timestables.co.uk

Topic

We have begun our new topic on rivers and mountains and discovered some of the tallest mountains in the world and located some of the mountain ranges across the world.

RE – In RE the children have been studying Sikhism and have found out about who Guru Nanak was and what Sikhs believe.

Over the next few weeks the sequence of learning will focus on:

English – Writing an opening and build up focused on a setting and based on the book ‘The Tunnel’ by Anthony Browne.

Maths – We continue to look at multiplication and solving word problems. We will then be moving onto division and division with remainders.

Topic – In our rivers and mountains topic, we will be looking at mountain climates and studying some famous mountain landscapes with our artistic hats on, leading to the children producing a mountain landscape collage.

RE – We will continue to study Sikhism, finding out about the other nine gurus and how they help others.

Linden class have started their swimming lessons and are thoroughly enjoying them.