Class Teacher: Miss Knapton

Teaching Assistants: Mrs Roebuck and Mrs Sale

PTFA Rep: Mrs Dhir and Mrs Hurst

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Important Information 

Homework this half term is to spend time reading, practising spellings and learning the 6 and 7 x table facts.  

Click on the image below to practise your tables. Remember to set to 6x or 7x.

Spellings will be sent home at the beginning of each new half 

term. Spelling tests take place on a Friday.

Please make sure your child has a named PE kit, water bottle, reading book and message book in school every day.

Our PE days are Monday and Thursday. 

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This term, our History topic question is...

'Was the Saxon time positive or negative for Britain?'

This half term, we are going to be learning all about the Anglo-Saxon period of English History. We will look at when the Anglo-Saxons invaded, where they came from and why they left their lands to come to England. 

Click on the picture below to find out more about Anglo Saxons : 

Key vocabulary:

Anglo Saxon, tribe, Angles, Saxons, Jutes, migrate, ancient, modern, century and decade, AD and BC, period, enquiry, representation, impact, primary source, secondary source, artefact

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Science 

This half term, we are going to be learning about Sound and Vibrations. We will be investigating how sounds is made through vibrations, how different sounds travel through different matter and how sound is affected over different distances. 

Click the images below to find out more: 

Key vocabulary:

air, bar chart, eardrum, insulator, pitch, proof, record, results table, sound, trustworthy, vibrations, volume

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DT

This half term, we are going to be using paint to create our own Still Life compositions. Children will explore different ways of using paint to create 3D effects. As well as using tints and shades to show light and dark. 

Key vocabulary:

bearing, chassis, force, machine, mechanism, prototype, target audience

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Reading this half term: 

We will be reading Sky Chasers by Emma Carroll 

Our Class Author is: Emma Carroll

   Some of her books include: