Friday 11th January

Lower Key Stage 2 Newsletter

It has been lovely to see the children return to school after the Christmas break with such enthusiasm and excitement for our new topic, Ancient Egypt. For the third time since September, we have been absolutely blown away with the quality of the home learning that took place over the school holidays. There are incredible pyramids, paintings on canvasses, poster displays, presentations and even some model mummies too! Our thanks to you all for supporting your children with this. We are very much looking forward to the half term ahead!

Literacy

This week has seen us kick start our narrative unit for this half term. We are looking at writing our own adventure and mystery stories and this week our focus has been on different settings. The children have enjoyed developing their use of effective adjectives to describe different places. We have incorporated some drama into our lessons so the children can really think about the five senses as they imagined themselves in a certain place (a tropical island, a boat in a storm, a forest). Why not ask your child what fantastic adjectives they wrote in their new ‘magpie book’ this week? Next week, we will be continuing to focus on adjectives but looking at how we can use them to effectively describe different characters in a story.

Numeracy

In numeracy, the children have been learning about how to measure length. They now know the appropriate conversions from millimetres to centimetres, centimetres to metres and metres to kilometres. We have also been practicing how to use a ruler to measure accurately and then combining this to work out the perimeter of different shapes. Next week, the children will be using their knowledge of length and applying it to worded addition and subtraction problems.

Topic

Our topic got off to a ‘flying start’ this week as we went on an imaginary flight to Egypt to learn about what Egypt is like today. The children were thoroughly engaged in the session and did a great job of completing a challenging tour guide quiz while watching some tour videos on our plane journey. We were very impressed with their attitude towards food tasting as well, as they tried some typical Egyptian food such as cous cous, flatbread, grapes, humous and chick peas. All the children can know say which continent Africa is in and enjoyed using an atlas to find out what countries surround it. Why not see how many of the world’s continents your child can remember?

Reminders

·        Year 4 swimming will restart next week, the 18^th January.

·        PE this half term is invasion games, please ensure your child brings their PE kit into school on a Monday and keeps it in school until Friday.

Have a lovely weekend!

Team 3/4