What a great week we've had this week. 

We have sent homework home for the first time and had nearly every piece back - thank you for your support with this. 

Times tables - please spend a little time each night practising times table questions with the children. They will come home have a range of strategies they have been taught at school including singing, chanting and learning their table facts by rote. We apologise for ruining any nursery rhymes for you by turning them into times table songs.

Next week:

In English, we will start a new genre of writing - non-chronological reports

In guided reading, we will continue answering questions based around non-fiction texts - this week will be about Pompeii.

In maths, we will continue our unit of work on fractions.

In geography, we will continue our volcanoes and earthquakes unit of work. 

In P.E., we will continue our gymnastics and netball units of work.

In science, we will continue studying forces - this week looking at water resistance.

In R.E., we will continue our enquiry - Is the Christmas story true? We will consider which parts of the story we think may have been true and which parts we believe in ourselves.

In music, we will continue our study of 'Livin' on a prayer'.

In D+T, we will continue looking at bridge building - planning our designs for our own bridges.