Class Teacher - Ms Catherine

Teaching Assistant - Chifundo

Our English this half term will be based on the book called Mark Antony and Cleopatra an Egyptian book and also we are going to think about the quality of language expression as we look at Verbs, Adverbs, Adjectives and Conjunctions and learn how to write extended paragraphs. We will also revise and build our learning from year 3 on how to write a character description (in fully fleshed paragraphs).

We will continue following White Rose Curriculum in Maths and this term’s foci are Place Value, Addition and Subtraction, Area and Multiplication and Division A. There will be lots of practical activities as well as new ways to calculate on paper.

Science & Topic 

 In Science we are going to be looking at animal skeletons including humans and after half term we will look at the earth.

While in topic we will be looking at history where we will learn about the ancient Egyptians for the first half term and the other half term we will switch to geography where we will look at type of settlements.

Coach Dan will focus on developing our football skills as well as building our confidence in swimming. 

In Art, we will study the work of David Hockney and imitate his drawings. As for Music, Mrs K has a whole playlist of water-themed songs for us to sing.

DT work is based on the theme of non-resistant materials where we will build on sewing skills and other activities from our water and the Viking theme.

While in ICT we will be looking at Microsoft 1 

Chichewa lessons continue with the children learning conversational skills including answering questions. We'll use drama and role-play in each lesson, as well as speaking and listening, singing and writing.