Dear Parents/Carers,
Please find below details of the work that your child’s class will be doing during this term. I have also suggested ways in which you can help your child at home.
Thank you for your support,
Mrs Kelleher
Class teacher
Summer Term 2017
Main Areas of Study
English – Grammar, punctuation, comprehension, Narrative & Persuasive writing.
Maths – main emphasis on number facts and relationships, measuring skills, geometry skills, number sequences, fractions, decimals, percentages and ratio, reasoning and data skills.
Science – Interdependence of Organisms – Habitats, food chains and parts of the body
History – The Tudors - We will be holding our Class Assembly on Tuesday 13th June at 10am.
Geography – Studying the locality of St Lucia
PE – Athletics and rounders
Art – Sketching
Welsh - Commands, phrases and sentence patterns. Writing about a friend in Welsh. Welsh reading comprehension
ICT – Use of iPads during sessions. Weekly ICT session with Mrs Shannon, learning how to use various programs linked with the LNF and topic work. Digital Competency Framework.
RE – Journeys and Pilgrimages
Ways Which You Can Help at Home
- Follow us on Twitter @CGPrimary for regular tweets of your child and their learning in school.
- Please send any interesting objects to school (not valuable items, please).
- Please listen to your child reading at home every night (a Reading Diary is provided for you to make comments).
- Please talk to your child about what they have been learning at school and encourage them to discuss topics and ask further questions.
- Visit the local library to choose books relevant to topics being studied at school.
- Homework will be sent home every Friday, to be in by the following Tuesday.
- A spelling list will be sent home every Monday. Children will be tested on these words the following Friday.
- Please send in £1 every Monday for your child to enjoy fruit kebabs daily with a healthy fruit lolly on a Friday.
- Games kit will be needed to be brought in on Monday and taken home on Friday.
