Happy New Year

Term 3 Class Newsletter:

We hope that you have all had a lovely Christmas holiday and wish you all the best for the New Year! The Autumn term was a great term and the children all worked really hard to produce some brilliant work. We all really enjoyed our topic of the Ancient Egyptians.

ASIA

Our new theme for the Spring term will be Asia. We will be focusing on different countries over the next two half terms, including India, China, Bangladesh and Japan.

Curriculum Area	An idea of what we will be learning:
Literacy	We will be learning about stories from other cultures and about myths and legends. We will be reading different stories to help us develop our learning and understanding of our Topic.
Maths (Y4)	Fractions, decimals, percentages. Method for addition, subtraction, multiplication and division.
Maths (Y5)	Percentages, Solving extended problems using all 4 operations, Reflective symmetry, Parallel and Perpendicular and Nets of 3D shapes.
Science	Our topic will be hot and cold.
Geography	Location of Asia and different countries in this continent. Comparing our own village and lives with an Indian village.
French	Classroom Objects Colours
SEAL	Going for goals.
RE	Our Main focus will be Buddhism.
Art	Our focus will be on exploring traditional art forms from some of the Asian countries we will be learning about.
Music	We will be listening and responding to some music from different cultures. We will explore the pentatonic scale.

PE

Please ensure that your child has their PE kit in school all week and that all items are named. We still hope to be outside when weather permits so please also ensure your child has suitable clothing for outdoor PE as well as indoor.

We have lots of exciting things planned for the term and thank you for your continued support. If you should have any queries, please do not hesitate to come and speak to us. 

Day 1:

Today we reflected on 2012 and thought about what we are looking forward to or hoping to achieve  in 2013. We have been learning about Janus who was an ancient Roman God. He had two faces, one looking forward and one looking back and so he could see the future and the past at the same time. He was the god of doors and gates and so of beginnings and openings. The month of January was named after him and was sacred to him. We used the idea of Janus to help us present our New Year Resolutions. 

We will be starting work on our new theme tomorrow. 

Here is a photo of our starting point display for our Asia theme. We will be adding to it with our work to show our learning over the coming weeks.