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TERM 3 and TERM 4

We hope you and your families all had a wonderful Christmas and we would like to say a big thank you for all the lovely cards and gifts, we really did appreciate it!

As we are sure the children have already shared with you, our topic for the next two terms is called ‘Creak, Crack, Crash’ and has a focus on Dinosaurs. At the end of last term, we were fortunate enough to have a visit from an astrodome, which was a great introduction to Dinosaurs. The children were all very excited, especially finding out the fun fact that some fossils to be discovered were in fact Dinosaur Poo!

To start our English, we will be reading Harry and the Bucketful of Dinosaurs, where the children will be writing their own narrative, as well as creating our own poems and non-chronological reports, that will be full of interesting facts that the children have researched. Our English will then focus on Mary Anning, where the children will use the knowledge they have developed of her life to write their own diary entries from her perspective.

In Maths, we are now looking at numbers within 20, making sure the children understand the value of each number. The children will use this knowledge to support them with their addition and subtraction work, which is to follow later in the term. We will revisit using number lines, which was something the children were introduced to during the Autumn term. Moving into term 4, the children will apply their knowledge of number and place value to length, height, mass and volume.

Our Art lessons will link to our topic, where the children will be using a variety of resources from the outdoors to create a layered Dinosaur picture, which we can’t wait to share with you.

During our RE sessions, the big question that we will focus on is ‘What is the good news Jesus brings?’ The children will be talking about people who have changed the world, forgiveness and peace.

In Science, we will continue with our Seasons topic and have the opportunity to visit areas around our school grounds to see how the environment may have changed from Autumn. We will also start our Animals including Humans topic and look at different animals and whether they are herbivores, carnivores or omnivores.

On a Monday, during PE, the children will have dance sessions, where they will use some of their gymnastics skills, learnt last term to create a sequence of movements.

We are sure the children will enjoy their learning this term and we look forward to sharing this with you.

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