Maths

For our Maths lessons, we will be continuing with our work on fractions looking a thirds, unit fractions and three quarters.

We will then me moving on to time. This will cover telling the time to o’clock, half past, quarter past and the nearest 5 minutes on an analoge clock.

Writing

This half term we will be using the book ‘The Last Wolf’ by Mini Grey to inspire our writing. This story looks at the importance of animals and their habitats and what happens if we take their habitats away.

Children will write a letter in role persuading characters to save the trees including the following features:

Use subordination (if, that)
Add -er and -est to adjectives
Use homophones and near homophones
Use punctuation correctly - apostrophes for contracted forms

RE

We will be starting our new unit ‘Ends of the Earth’ this half term. This will include the resurrection of Jesus and Pentecost before looking at the early Christian church and the importance of The Holy Spirit, St Paul and St Luke.

In history, we will be learning about seaside holidays in the past with a foucs on New Brighton.

In science, we will be looking at the life cycles of animals including humans.

In DT, we will be looking at puppets - designing and making our own puppet.

In PE, children will be learning athletics. This will include the skills running, jumping and throwing.