Week Commencing - 8/9/2025

In English, we have started work relating to our new class book, Beowulf, retold by Michael Morpurgo. So far, we have written hero CVs, and our news articles about the slaying of Grendel are underway.

Our first maths unit of the year is place value. The children have been ordering and comparing numbers up to 10,000,000 and multiplying by powers of 10.

In science, we have been studying the Solar System. The children have learned how days are caused by the Earth's rotation, how years are caused by the Earth’s revolution around the Sun, and how the Earth’s slight tilt results in what we experience as seasons.

As well as an hour of PE with Andy, the children are also having 40 minutes on a Friday with me. We are doing dance through the decades. Each week, focusing on a different decade (starting with the 1940s), musical style, and set of 3 dances. The children have been taking what they have learned and developing their own short choreographed routine to perform at the end.

In PSHE, we have been looking at developing SMART goals – Specific, measurable, achievable, relevant, and time-bound.

In RE, we have started our unit on journeys and how everyone’s is different.

Geography this half-term is about maps. This week, the children explored Google Earth and its features and uses.

In Art, the children are focusing on self-expression. They have looked at how cartoonists exaggerate facial emotions, and they have designed their own outfits for self-expression.