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
Autumn Term 2016
Main Areas of Study
Maths – place value, 4 – rules of number, measuring, fractions, decimals, percentages and data handling
Language – recount, explanation and instruction writing. Spellings, comprehension skills, reading and handwriting.
Science – Materials and their properties and the sun and our solar system.
History – The Celts
Geography – Eco Schools
R.E. - Places of Worship
P.E. - Football, netball and gymnastics
How You Can Help At Home
- 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).
- Visit the local library to choose books relevant to topics being studied at school.
- Talk to your child about the range of geographical features in their locality.
- 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 on the following Friday.
- PE/Games kit required on and – please sent in at the start of the week.
- Please send £1 for fruit tuck on a Monday if your child would like it.
- If you send any money to school please write the child’s name on the envelope and the amount.
