This document provides information to parents about various classroom policies and procedures. It outlines what students should bring to school each day, including proper attire for gym class. It details the school's focus on developing character values and corrective actions for behavior. The document also gives an overview of the homework schedule and topics to be covered in various subjects like spelling, math, reading, and writing. It provides details on what skills will be taught in areas like listening, talking, and math. Finally, it lists the integrated topics that will be covered this term connecting to the Jacobites and science units on respiratory and circulatory systems.

1. Miss Cave &
Mrs Cullum

2.  Please make sure your child has their
name on everything.
 Water bottles
 Water only in class, take home to be washed
 Schoolbag and homework diaries
 Please check regularly
 Sign any comments from the teacher in diary
 Remind child to share any notes from home

3.  Please make sure your child has a gym kit in
school for Wednesdays and Thursdays this
term.
 P.E. may be held outside on occasion, weather
permitting.
 Outdoor shoes as well as gym rubbers
 Leggings/tracksuit bottoms
 Long sleeve cover up to stay warm
 Jewellery should not be worn during P.E.
 Pupils responsible for removing own
earrings

4.  Focus on one of our school values each month
 Pupils aim to move to ‘Living Our Values’ board
each week – 5 dojo points each time they achieve this
 Corrective Actions
 Pupils are encouraged to make positive behaviour
choices and to take time to reflect when things go
wrong.

6.  Spelling:
 Given out on a Monday
 Due on a Friday
 Maths:
 Given out on a Tuesday
 Due following Tuesday
 Written and/or mental maths work, Sumdog contests
 Reading:
 Fiction home readers – please ensure your child is
keeping up with reading homework
 Focus on skills for reading in class – fiction and non-
fiction

7.  Listening and talking:
 Skills for partner and group work.
 Presenting information to an audience.
 Reading:
 Skills and strategies for reading fiction and non-fiction,
e.g. reading for information, summarising, prediction.
 Writing:
 Personal writing: diary entries.
 Functional writing: newspaper articles.
 Spelling:
 Following the Nelson spelling scheme for spelling
patterns and Fry’s Lists for common words

8.  Maths Talk
 Daily focus on mental strategies
 Addition and subtraction
 Written and mental methods
 ‘Chimney sums’, empty number lines, partitioning, etc.
 Applying strategies with a wider range of numbers.
 Time
 Revision of telling the time on analogue and digital clocks
 Converting 12 hour times to 24 hour
 Calculating durations
 Shape
 Naming 2D shapes and describing their properties
 Drawing circles, measuring the radius and diameter
 Link to Jacobites topic
 Timelines
 Shape

9.  IDL: The Jacobites
 Science: Respiratory and Circulatory
systems
 RME: Islam

10. Any questions?