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 & Miss Duggan in the mornings.

This term Year 5 will be going swimming on Tuesday afternoon with Mrs Cox and Year 4 will have PE. Please can all children always have the correct PE kit in school every Tuesday, 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 Friday 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.

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 children are asked to practise a weekly list of spellings list by completing 'Spelling Soup' choice activities (aiming to achieve at least 15 spelling soup points each week) and/or logging into Spelling Shed and completing the assigned activities.
• 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' and Timestables.co.uk.
• Maths - the children have a homework book and are set 'weekly workouts'.
• English - the children have a homework book and are set weekly grammar or punctuation practice activities.  

This Autumn Term 1's Learning:

English: Our driver text is The Queen of Falls, Chris Van Allsburg

Class Book: The Last Bear, Hannah Gold

Maths:  Place Value and Shape

Science: States of Matter and The Water Cycle

RE: Belief into Action - Sikhism

Computing: Coding

Art:  Typography and Maps

Geography: Climate Zones and Climate Change

PSHE: Family and Well-being

MFL:  Phonics and I'm Learning

Music: Copying rhythmic patterns and performing together

(Music and MfL will be taught every two weeks).

More details about what we will be learning this term can be found on our curriculum overview below.

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.