I am delighted to welcome your child to Year 4 & 5 and I am pleased to introduce myself, Miss Stead as your child’s class teacher.

In honor of London hosting the Olympic Games next year we have decided to adopt the colors of the Olympic rings as class names for 2012.

Children with Miss Stead will be Red Class.

Topic Overview for 2012

We have a very exciting summer term ahead of us. Our topic is entitled ‘Sssh… Listen Carefully’ and I have based our learning around this topic area in the majority of subjects.

Please download a copy of the 2012 Topic Overview for Red Class (.PDF).

Homework

Homework will continue to be set regularly each week and will follow the same format. Homework will be given out every Tuesday as normal.

The children will continue to write their tasks in the front of their homework books. Children have one homework book for Literature Circles and a separate homework book for their additional task.

Weekly homework includes:

• Literature Circles task and reading of chapters
• Additional task, either: Spellings, Maths or Learning Log
• Revision of Times Tables

In addition to Literature Circles work, I encourage the children to read other material at home for at least 20 minutes each evening. This should be for their personal enjoyment and interest. The children may choose their own reading book from the school library or from home, and complete their Reading Record each time they read their book.

Please sign the Reading Record when you hear your child read.

PE days in the Red Class

PE - Apparatus will be every Monday – indoor kit needed
Games will be every Friday – outdoor kit needed

Please ensure children have their PE kit in school all week. This helps to prevent children forgetting their kit. There may be some occasions when our PE slot is altered, and if the children have their kit in school all week it helps to avoid too many timetable changes. 

Please ensure that your child brings the correct kit for indoor PE, as outlined in the school prospectus.

Literacy and Numeracy

Our learning will be in accordance with the Primary Framework for Literacy and Numeracy.

In Literacy we will begin by studying ‘Traditional Stories – Fables, Myths and Legends’. In Numeracy we have completed all of the Unit 2 objectives for Blocks A-E and this term we will start with the Unit 3 material, beginning with Block A.

Topics in our other subject areas

• Science - ‘Sound’ and ‘Forces’
• History – ‘How has life in Britain changed since 1940?’
• Geography – ‘A Contrasting Locality’
• ICT - ‘Manipulating Sound – Powerpoint presentation’
• Art and DT - ‘Inventions Project – Dragons Den style!’
• RE – ‘Religion in our locality’ and ‘Faith through the arts’
• PSHE/SEAL - ‘Relationships’ and ‘Changes’ – continued work on Miss Dorothy
• Music - Music will be taught by Mrs R Pena 
• Modern Foreign Languages – French will be taught by Mrs R Pena

Diary dates – specific to the Red Class

• Monday 28th – Wednesday 30th May 2012 – Carlton Lodge for Y4 pupils. I will be accompanying the Y4 pupils to Carlton Lodge. Pupils in Y5 will remain in school to take part in Bikeability.
• Monday 18th June 2012 – ‘Growing Up’ talk for Y5 pupils by school nurse.
• Wednesday 27th June 2012 – Y4 pupils to Jervaulx Abbey with Y3 pupils.
• Monday 2nd July 2012 – Career Day for pupils in Y5.

Any additional dates will be given as soon as they are known.

The Red Class will continue to follow the same timetable as last term. We will also continue to complete the Early Bird each morning, the Star of the Week each Friday afternoon, and continue to operate the popular table points system each day. We will continue to swap ‘Talk Partners’ fortnightly to encourage variation in partner work.

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