What a wonderful week we had last week. The children worked hard and there were some superb highlights. We enjoyed another good set of spelling results, finished re-drafting our discursive writing, enjoyed a range of activities during World Book Day and started some new topics in design technology (where we evaluated a range of existing soups) and P.E. (where we had our first lesson of basketball this year).

Notices:

This week, the children will be completing their next set of assessments which comprise of a SPaG assessment and spelling assessment on Monday, the reading assessment on Tuesday and then maths assessments on Wednesday and Thursday.

As well as this, there will be a special visit on Tuesday from The Maker School who will be delivering a special science lesson to the children on Tuesday. There will also be a visitor from Rotherham Children's capital of culture and a photographer at the event.

The children need their P.E. kits on Monday and Thursday next week although we do ask them to be in school all week if possible. Earrings should be removed before school please. Please ensure children have a suitable outdoor kit on Monday (white t-shirt, a warm jumper, jogging bottoms and trainers).

Please encourage the children to spend a little time each day reading, which we would be grateful if you logged on boomreader so that the children get dojos in school, practise their spelling patterns and spend a little time working on mastering their times tables.

Next week's learning:
- In maths, we will finish looking at the perimeters of different shapes before moving on to calculating area.
- In reading, we will continue to analyse the story 'How to Train Your Dragon'
- In geography, we will continue studying mountains. This week looking at the different types of mountain.
- In music, we will continue learning about 'The Fresh Prince of Bel Air'
- In design technology, we will look at a range of preparation techniques for different soup ingredients.
- In P.E., we will continue developing our skills in badminton and basketball.
- In R.E., we will continue our topic of Islam.
- In P.S.H.E., we will continue our topic of dreams and goals.