Welcome back to Autumn term 2

 

Hello everyone, 

Welcome back to Autumn term 2. It's always an exciting and inspiring term and this year it should be no different. 

Firstly, the class will be presenting their inventions next Monday as part of the Lions Roar 22 competition. This week, the children will be writing their scripts and preparing their presentations and prototypes ahead of next week. It has been wonderful listening to their creative ideas and innovations. 

This winter, the children will perform a Christmas show in December (13th & 15th). I am hoping to do lots of drama sessions during weeks 3 and 4 of this term and begin casting for both our Christmas show and our Shakespeare performance in February (8th). Year 4 children are also given the opportunity to read passages during the reception Nativity and Carol service.

Whereas last term our learning had a strong history focus, this term we are leaning more towards geography as the children learn about Australia, the water cycle and climate and time zones. Future home learning activities for this unit will involve the children doing some family research to find out about family members (or close friends) that have links to countries overseas. They will also be asked to make a model of the water cycle in a few weeks time. 

In literacy, the children will be looking at features of non fiction texts and learning to use organisational devices such as paragraphs, headings and bullet points. They will write their own non fiction texts including an explanation text on the water cycle. If you child tends to favour only reading fiction texts encouraging them to explore non fiction texts this term would be beneficial. 

And finally, in terms of dressing up this term, you might want to have a dig around for some odd socks (for odd socks day on 14th November), something spotty or non school uniform for Children in Need (18th November) and something Christmassy for our Christmas jumper / elf day (9th December).     

As ever, if you have any comments, questions or concerns please email me or Mr MacBean or talk to a member of the team. 

Kind regards,

Ms Browne, Mr MacBean, Mrs Bernard, Mrs McConnell, Miss Street, Mrs Thomas and Mrs Burgess.