Term 3

Welcome back to school Otters! Happy New Year! Hope you all had a restful and joyful Christmas break. 

In our Writing lessons, we will be writing narrative stories based on our class text, Street Child where the children will write their own chapter for the book. The focus of this piece of writing will be to develop their use of dialogue to advance the action and develop the characters. To finish the term, the children will use the knowledge from their history lessons, to write a non-chronological report about The Victorian era. The focus will be to ensure there is a clear structure to the genre and to write using Standard English. 

In Maths this term, we start the term with multiplication and division where the children will learn to develop their written methods with larger numbers. We then finish the term with returning to fractions; multiplying a fraction by a whole number and finding fractions of amounts. 

Throughout our learning this term, we will focus our History learning around the topic of The Victorians.

In RE, our question is, 'How can following God bring freedom and justice?' Our theme in and Science will be learning about Properties and Changes of Materials. Our Computing is learning about to develop an understanding and purpose of databases. DT will be studying bridges and the engineer Isambard Kingdom Brunel before designing and building their own suspension bridge.  Music is learning about how to sing and play along to 'Make You Feel my Love' by Adele. 

Our PE days are Monday (Tag Rugby) and Thursday (Handball). Your child will need to come to school in their PE kit on those days please. 

Mrs Garcia is with us on a Thursday and Friday now and Mrs Boler is doing a placement at another school this term. 

Should you need to contact us please email; jcutts@lyminge.kent.sch.uk.

Thank you so much for your continued support, 

Mrs Cutts, Mrs Garcia and Mrs Miller