What a great start back we have had this week. We've had a great end to the week as well with so many children dressing up as rock stars for the launch of our battle of the bands competition.

We've also had so many children logging their home reading on Boomreader so thank you to all the parents/carers for their support with this.

P.E. kit - it is getting colder now so jogging bottoms/jumpers are a great idea to include for P.E. kit on Tuesday.

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:

We have a very exciting day on Thursday with a whole school Michael Rosen assembly on poetry before we write and perform some poems of our own.

In English, we will continue with our character description genre of writing.

In guided reading, we will continue answering questions based around non-fiction texts.

In maths, we will start a new 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 look at the link between weight and mass.

In PSHE, we will look at racism, how we can spot it and challenge it.

In R.E., we will continue our enquiry - Is the Christmas story true?

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

In D+T, we will look at bridge building - starting by studying a range of existing bridges.