This term our line of enquiry is….

Do rocks have a story to tell?

Our Power of Reading text is Lubna and Pebble by Wendy Meddour

We will be using this text to explore the features of diaries, letters and newspaper articles.

In Science we will learn about Rocks, Soils and Fossils and how they have helped make our world. Before learning about mountains and volcanoes, in Geography.

Reading

This term the children will be engaging in a range of fiction and non-fiction texts, where possible linking into our Power of Reading book. We are practising our VIPERS reading skills, focusing this term on the retrieval and inference domains. Our author of the half term is Dick King-Smith. We will be learning about about the authors books and exploring them in fun and exciting ways.

Word of the Day!

Our words for this half term are:

Week 1	Creature Reluctantly Tremendous Magnificent Gracefully
Week 2	Extraordinary Sneakily Disagreeable Cautiously Crisis
Week 3	Frantic Unusually Outstanding Delicately Archaeology
Week 4	Ogre Unattractive Triumph Lovingly Comedian

Can you be a word wizard? Try to write a sentence for these words!

Northfield St Nicholas’ Reading Race!

Every Wednesday is Reading Wednesday!

We are challenged to read every Wednesday with someone at home that can record it on our reading book logs. The class with the most pupils that have read will win the race!

The winners will be announced each week and the winning classes are moved along the reading race and receive a bonus playtime!

At the end of the term the first class to reach the end of the reading race will win a treat/prize!

Each week we learn a new spelling rule. This will be on our weekly newsletter, please help your child learn this rule by practising writing words that contain this rule.

Writing

At Northfield St. Nicholas we teach our English curriculum through high quality texts. The texts we use link directly to our lines of enquiry and support our learning in other areas of the curriculum. Roughly, each half term we introduce a new text.

The children explore the text page by page over the half term and engage with it in a variety of ways. We use lots of drama to support us and take lots of photos – keep checking back to see what we have been up to!

We will be improving our knowledge of grammar and parts of speech, as we learn to write different types of sentences. Approximately once a weeks, we will be putting what we have learned into practise with a ‘Big Write’.

Please continue to support your child at home with spelling and handwriting practise.

Maths

At Northfield, we adopt a Mastery approach during our lessons. Daily, children will engage in four maths sessions, times tables/maths discussion, maths lesson and maths workout.