Welcome to Foxes!
Class Teacher: Mrs Carpenter
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Welcome to Foxes
Welcome back to the Spring term - this half term we will be pondering the question: ‘Was it a disaster?’ Thinking about mining jobs, conditions and safety. We will be researching our local area, focusing on the Whitwick colliery disaster and how other events like this brought about mining strikes and new regulations. Alongside our topic we will be using our working scientifically skills to investigate different forces and will be using conducting lots of different experiments to show different forces at work. During our English lessons we will be using songs and poetry to think about how people perceived and remember working in mines. We will be thinking about metaphors and our use of adventurous vocabulary to describe the mine conditions. We will also continue working on our sentences structures and editing our work to check it’s conveying our ideas clearly. Mathematics - we will be continuing to improve our fluency in arithmetic, including deepening our understanding of fractions. We will also be mastering all areas of mathematics, focusing on written word problems and reasoning skills - applying this to real life situations. This year we will also be looking at Oracy - thinking about our spoken language, conversational skills and being able to talk fluently and coherently in all areas of the curriculum using sentence stems to support our discussions. Homework and spellings will be given out on a Friday and will be marking in class together on a Friday. Please practise these at home. Weekly practise of handwriting, times tables and daily reading will take place, so please make sure your child has a book in school and reads regularly at home. This half term we are lucky to have 2 great coaches in our PE sessions. We will be continue with our Gymnastic lessons on Wednesdays and will begin Hockey skills on a Friday. Please ensure you are in the correct PE kit on these days (shorts for Wednesdays) Come back soon to see and see all the great things we are doing. #resilience #risk-taking #ambition |
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