Autumn Second half 2024 - Heroes and Villains

PE - Monday and Wednesday

Please can the children come to school in their PE kit.

School Trips

• Library Thursday 14th November AM- children will join the library and have a workshop looking and learning about Florence Nightingale and Mary Seacole.
• St Mary's Church  11th|December AM- meeting Ref Hilary Bond to be welcomed at the church, have an explore and learn about the church. Workshop and act out the nativity story.

We would very much appreciate parent helpers so please let us know if you are available to join us.

Dates for diary:

12/11 Parents evening - please book via Arbour 

14/11 Individual school photos

03/12 Nativity Dress rehearsal to school pm

04/12 Nativity pm to Parent

05/12 Nativity AM to Parents

Literacy 

For literacy this half term we are exploring a variety of traditional tales. We will be looking and reading lots of different traditional tales, discussing their settings, analysing their features and talking about the characters. We will be retelling the stories through drama, story mapping, character descriptions and writing our own Jack and Beanstalk story. 

Please have a look at BBCbitesize -Fairy stories and traditional tales, which has lots of different stories to watch and interactive activities to do.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/articles/zpqyhcw

History

We are learning about significant individuals from the past who have changed our world.

We are learning all about Guy Fawkes and discussing our opinions about whether we thought he was a hero or a villain for doing what he did.

Then we will be researching about Florence Nightingale and Mary Seacole. Two very brave women who changed the world of nursing and forged the way for better conditions in hospitals. How their actions from the past have changed our world now.

For more information look at BBCbitesize:

• https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/topics/zd8fv9q/articles/zdrrcj6 (Guy Fawkes)
• https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/topics/zns9nrd/articles/zjsxcqt (Mary Seacole)
• https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/topics/zns9nrd/articles/znsct39 (Florence Nightingale)

Remembrance Day

We had a special circle time thinking about what the 11th day of the 11th month means to us and the people around the world. We all made a poppy to wear. We watched a clip from cbeebies to help us reflect.

www.bbc.co.uk/cbeebies/watch/poppies

We watched live bbc news and stood still for our silence.

Science - The Seasons

This half term in science we are learning about the seasons. What they are and how the weather, plants and what we wear changes to in each season. We are also talking about day length and how that varies in each season. We will be investigating different ways to measure the weather and we will be measuring in cm the rainfall over a week. To do this every child will make their own rain gauge to record data and make conclusions.

For more information to support home learning see Oak National Academy:

https://classroom.thenational.academy/units/seasons-and-change-3c8a