Dear Parents and Carers,
Welcome to Acorn Class and a new, exciting and busy term. We hope everyone had an enjoyable summer holiday and are ready to take on the new challenges of the coming year.
Our topic this term is the Romans, focusing on exploring where the Romans came from, why they were powerful and what changes they brought to Britain.
In English we will be looking carefully at the images in the fascinating book “The Mysteries of Harris Burdick”. Children will be creating a narrative around one of the illustrations. After that, we will read “Escape to Pompeii” about the story of two children, Tranio and Livia, who witness and escape the catastrophic eruption of Mount Vesuvius in AD 79.We will use the book as a base to write a setting description and a newspaper article.
In the second half of the term, we will be reading some Roman myths and legends and will be focusing on the story of Romulus and Remus. Over the term, every week, we will be also practising reading comprehension skills and a focus in VIPERS to answer a variety of questions about the text. VIPERS stands for:
Vocabulary
Inference
Prediction
Explanation
Retrieval
Sequence or Summarise
In Maths we are focusing on place value, addition and subtraction, multiplication and division and measuring area.
In Science we will be learning about electricity. We will talk about what electricity is, circuits, conductors, insulators and safety around electricity. Our second science topic will be about “states of matter” and the children will explore solids, liquids and gases. In art, we will look at telling stories through making and drawing.
Our PE days are Mondays and Fridays. Every child is expected to come to school wearing their PE kit.
In RE the children will discuss how believing in Jesus their Saviour inspire Christians to save and serve others and in the second half of the term we will endeavour to answer the question “Why do Muslims call Muhammad the “seal of the prophets”?
To support your children at home, we ask that you listen to them read, practice the spellings set on Spelling Shed and practise times tables on TT Rockstars. We will be doing weekly spellings test. Homework will be set on a Wednesday and collected on a Monday morning.
We are looking forward to working in partnership with you throughout the year, we are always available at the end of every day so please talk to us if you have any concerns. We look forward to a fantastic first term with you all!
Mrs Soal