Autumn term 1 2024

Hello to you all : )

I am so excited to start this new year with you and we can't wait for you to be back in school! I hope you have had a relaxing summer break and feel ready for the start of the new year; we have a lot of exciting and important learning coming up!

Our current units of learning are:

English - Beowulf by Michael Morpurgo - character description

Guided Reading - Goodnight Stories for Rebel Girls by Elena Favilli and Francesca Cavallo

Maths - Place value of numbers with up to 7 digits

Science - Life cycles

RE - What does it mean for Christians to believe that God is holy and loving?

History - Anglo-Saxons

PSHE - Being me in my world

Spanish - Mi familia

PE - Cross-country and swimming

Computing - Coding

Music - Glockenspiel 

Important information

- PE days = Wednesday and Friday

- Homework = will be given out and is due in on Thursdays

- Spelling test = Thursdays

- It is so important to read regularly, and we have so many interesting books for you to borrow. Please bring reading books in every day as we will be using them in class too.

Remember: 

“The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn, the more places you'll go.”

― Dr. Seuss, I Can Read With My Eyes Shut!

 

Our class novel

 

The Unforgotten Coat - Frank Cottrell Boyce.

Two refugee brothers from Mongolia are determined to fit in with their Liverpool schoolmates, but bring so much of Mongolia to Bootle that their new friend and guide, Julie, is hard-pressed to know truth from fantasy.