Welcome to Year 4 and 5 Chestnut Class 2024-2025.

Our class teachers are Mrs Moore and Mrs Myers. 

We have different teaching assistants working in our class: Mrs Collins and Mrs Mclean in the mornings.

PE

This term PE will be on a Wednesday afternoon. Please can all children always have the correct PE kit in school every Wednesday, including trainers and suitable clothing for outdoor lessons in all weathers.

As part of our drive to keep active for our mental health and wellbeing, we will all take part in 'The Golden Mile' on Tuesday and THURSDAY mornings. Please could children arrive to school wearing trainers suitable for running on grass and with their school shoes to change into afterwards.

Children taking in part in sports clubs or sporting events during the school day or after school, should also have the correct PE kit in school on those days, including specialist footwear, such as football boots.

Curriculum Learning:

English:  Blue John (Explanation Text)

Maths:  Decimals, Measures, Negative Numbers, Money

History: Ancient Egypt

Science: Life Cycles

RE: Christianity - Commitment to God

DT: Soft Toy making

Art: Sculpture

Music: Notation

Computing: Scratch

PSHE: Changing Bodies

Homework:

A reminder and details of the homework activities can be found in your child's reading log book and will include:

• Reading - please can children aim to read at least 5 times each week and log their reading in their reading record book.  Children will get a prize each week if they achieve this.
• Spellings - the will now be following a new scheme.  They will have more spellings to learn but over 2 weeks.
• Times tables practice - the children have many different methods for learning their times tables but they also enjoy challenging themselves on 'Times Table Rock Stars'.
• Maths - the children will be given homework sheets based on what they have been learning in class.
• English - the children have a homework book and are set weekly grammar or punctuation practice activities.  We are now also setting an optional writing task.

Please can the children self-mark homework and we will go through any difficulties in class.  

Google Classroom

The children will be set activities on Google Classroom to access both during school and at home.  Please see below for instructions on how to do this.