Friday 15th November

Happy Friday!

This week, we have been poets for Remembrance, mathematicians and rugby players.

This week, we have started our unit on Multiplication and Division in Maths, focusing on our knowledge and next steps. In English, we have started to look at our new text The Sleeper and the Spindle by Neil Gaiman, which is based on the fairy tale Sleeping Beauty . 

In Science we worked on separating river water into its component parts using filtration. History saw us thinking about the slavery trade in the Benin Kingdom - and what it would have been like to be involved. In P.E. we have worked on our travelling, jumping and landing skills in gymnastics and we focused our tag rugby skills in our outdoor session.

This week as part anti-bullying week. in PSHE,  the class have been thinking about Body Image and how we are all unique. WE have been promoting the ideal that we should be confident in who we are and what we look like.


On Tuesday, we all wore Odd Socks for Anti Bullying Week. Odd Socks denote that we are all different and that differences should be celebrated. The official song from Andy and the Oddsocks for this year can be viewed on the following link:
https://youtu.be/FLoHRqkKi18?si=pat_Z9O4mx7rk6D_

We also wore pyjamas today for Children in Need. Thank you for your kind donations, all money raised goes to an outstanding cause.

Next week, we will continue our new English unit, based on the text The Sleeper and the Spindle by Neil Gaiman. We will also continue our new Maths unit (Multiplication and Division), new geography unit (Informal Settlements) and investigate Geology and the Rock Cycle in Science. 
It is also assessment week, so the children will undertake assessments in both Maths and English.

P.E. will be on Thursday and Friday for this half term until Christmas, so please send the children in with their kits on these days. 

Finally, the children will come home with their homework books on Monday (due to an IT problem with the printer). In these there are spellings for this week, Maths questions based on what we have been doing in class and a topic homework with a choice of activities. Please could the book come back in on Thursday next week for marking and so that the children can add next week's home learning. So far this term, the response to home learning has been very positive and it really does help to reinforce the learning that the children undertake during the school day. New topic home learning will also be there.


Have a great weekend everybody, see you on Monday.


​Jason Foreman