Welcome back!

This last term at Primary School will, I hope, be a very special, busy and memorable one. We have an exciting timetable of events in this last term including a water sports day at Harlow Outdoor Centre on Wednesday 14^th July and a workshop with Crucial Crewe. Also, we will be developing our entrepreneurial skills with our own Dragon Den’s project later this term.

Curriculum

English: we will be studying a range of fiction and non- fiction writing, including non- chronological reports, poetry, film narrative and graphic novels and classic fiction; we will review and practice all the key features of the different text types, look at spelling patterns and strategies, build on our use of different types of sentence and structures for good effect and perfect our handwriting. Drama, music and play scripts will be a focus at the end of term as we prepare for our production to be performed in our Leavers’ Assembly. We will also reinforce aspects of spelling, grammar and punctuation through GPS early morning activities.

Continued reading of quality texts is to be encouraged (at home as well as at school), with discussion to draw out understanding using inference and deduction.

Maths: we will reinforce of all areas of the Maths curriculum to develop thinking skills and approaches to problem solving, working logically and systematically, and using and applying Maths

Science: Electricity and Light.

Topic: Our work in History will focus on World War II in Europe and the Battle of Britain and how Britain changes after World War II. We will also study our own locality for Geography which will include work centred around Clavering village and our class walk.

Art: In Art we will be comparing the work of Pop artists their style and techniques and comparing them to Graffiti artists. 

DT we will be working with wood and bird boxes (postponed from Spring term).

Computing: we will be continuing to improve our skills making full use of the tools in the Word Processing package to create documents suited to audience and topic content. We will also focus on developing our PowerPoint skills. We will also continue to ensure that we are safe in our use of the internet and social media.

French: ‘mes passe temps’ and ‘la France et les pays francophones.

P.S.H.E.: We will be looking and differences and discrimination, healthy lifestyles and growing and changing as well as a focus on economic awareness and enterprise towards the end of the term. We will also be attending a workshop at Crucial Crew.

P.E.: Athletics, Cricket and Rounders. Please ensure that full P.E. kit (shorts, tee shirt, socks and trainers) are worn to school on Thursday and Friday school our P.E. days.

R.E.: we will be continuing with our studies of Judaism.     

Music: the children will be listening to music from around the world and creating their own pieces of music together.

Future Events – Dates to be confirmed

Crucial Crew Workshop

Class Walk

Picnic with our Buddies in Reception on Jubilee Fields

Cinema/ bowling trip

Leavers Assembly – end of year production.

Now the days are getting warmer we hope to be planting our allotment soon. Any donations of seedlings or seeds would be gratefully received. Thank you.

As always if you do have any questions or concerns at any time, please do phone or email the office and I will return your call or email as soon as possible.

Kind regards

Annabelle Hall