Weekly News 24.4.26
Welcome back to Term 5! The children have returned to school with amazing attitudes, and they have already been busy producing some excellent pieces of work! Here is what we have been up to this week…
Maths
In maths this week, we have been learning about angles and polygons. The children have learnt about acute, obtuse and obtuse angles, and the size that these angles would be in degrees. They have learnt that an angle is an amount of turn and we have practised making quarter, half and whole turns. We then compared and ordered angles. After that, we learnt about regular and irregular polygons. The children identified if given shapes were regular or irregular by looking at the length of the sides and the interior angles.
Next week we will be learning about Roman Numerals and revising the place value of digits in decimal numbers.
English
In English this week we have started reading our new text called ‘Tales of Wisdom and Wonder’ retold by Hugh Lipton. This is a wonderful book full of short stories that are tales from different cultures. This week we have read ‘The Curing Fox’, a traditional tale from the Cree people of Canada. We are learning how to write play scripts this week and next week. We started by looking at a range of different play scripts and identified how they are laid out and what features they have. After we had read the story of ‘The Curing Fox’, we turned it into a play script, ensuring we used these features; a main title, a cast list, a scene subtitle, the speakers names with a colon next to them, no inverted comma for speech, a narrator and some of us included stage directions in brackets. We then focused more on writing the narrator part of the play script, ensuring we had written it in past tense, and finally learnt how to write stage directions in present tense.
Next week we will continue to learn some more skills for writing a play script and then write our showpiece.
Thematic
In Thematic this week, we started our new topic called ‘Water World’. In this topic we will be learning about science and geography. We began with lots of map work, identifying and labelling these main rivers in the UK; Trent, Thames, Severn, Mersy and Tyne. We also identified and labelled some major rivers of the world on a world map; Amazon, Mississippi, Nile, Yangtze and Ganges. The children found out which country each of these rivers runs through. We also learnt some of the capital cities of countries from around the world. We then learnt about why people might choose to live near a river and discovered reasons such as; a source of water for washing/drinking/cleaning, using the river for trade, water sports on the river, fertile soil for growing crops and many more.
Next week we will be learning about the River Thames and about how rivers can be used to create renewable energy in hydroelectric plants.
PSHE
We have begun our ‘Be here, be you, belong’ learning this week. We read a book called ‘The Hueys in The New Jumper’ by Oliver Jeffers, which teaches us about how it is great to be different and unique and that if we were all the same, life would be very boring. In the book, the Hueys knit themselves new jumpers in an attempt to be different to one another. The children then designed their own jumper to reflect their personalities and uniqueness. Here are a few of them…
Spellings
Spellings to learn this week are:
happier, funniest, loveliest, luckier, grumpiest, cuddliest, easier, ugliest
RED WORDS: question, quarter, recent
Challenge words: spiciest, hungrier, scruffiest
Love to Learn
You have until Monday 27th April to complete your home learning task set for the whole school for the Easter break about what makes you unique and special. Please see the poster below. We will be using the children’s ideas in class on Monday 27th April.
