What a wonderful first week back we had last week. The children came back in good spirits and hit the ground running with their work. We enjoyed another good set of spelling results, finished drafting our discursive writing, completed our Earth and Space topic in science and started some new topics in geography (where we began looking at mountains and P.E. (where we had our first lesson of badminton this year).

Notices:

The children need their P.E. kits on Monday and Thursday next week although we do ask them to be in school all week if possible. Earrings should be removed before school please. Please ensure children have a suitable outdoor kit on Monday (white t-shirt, a warm jumper, jogging bottoms and trainers).

Please encourage the children to spend a little time each day reading, which we would be grateful if you logged on boomreader so that the children get dojos in school, practise their spelling patterns and spend a little time working on mastering their times tables.

Next week's learning:
- In maths, we will finish looking at fractions, decimals and percentages before starting to look at the perimeters of different shapes.
- In English, we will edit and redraft our discursive work.
- In reading, we will continue to analyse the story 'How to Train Your Dragon'
- In geography, we will continue studying mountains. This week looking at the different ways they are formed.
- In music, we will continue learning about 'The Fresh Prince of Bel Air'
- In design technology, we will evaluate existing products before starting to look at designing our own soups.
- In science, we will start a new topic of animals including humans, focusing on the gestation period of different animals.
- In P.E. we will start developing our skills in badminton and basketball.