| Subject | Profiles | Ideas for home |
| English | This half term we will be focusing on Space. We will explore the planets, write poems about our discoveries as well as write stories and information texts. Pupils will continue to learn how to include descriptive language and build up their independence in writing longer sentences. | This topic will provide opportunities to be accurate as well as imaginative in their writing. Try to watch some documentaries on Space. There are some great ones by Brian Cox on BBC iPlayer. |
| Maths | Multiplication will be our focus to begin the Spring term. Pupils will identify patterns in the times tables, learn how to multiply 1 digit numbers together and apply what they have learnt to real world problems. | Try to use multiplication in your everyday life. Such as “There are 12 fish fingers in this pack and 4 of us are having them. How many will we have each?” |
| Personal Development/PfAL | Budgeting will be a focus for us to begin 2025. Pupils will explore how money needs to be managed carefully in order to live responsibly. We will keep to a budget for our weekly shop as well as explore imaginative scenarios where an allotted amount needs to cover an activity. Pupils will also take part in an enterprise activity where we try to raise money towards a specific cause. | If you feel able to, discuss with your child how you budget for an activity, such as a food shop. What decisions do you have to make?
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| Kitchen Skills | Pupils will continue to explore healthy eating this half term, along with learning safe hygiene and food handling in our Teaching Kitchen. Pupils will plan, buy and make a recipe each week, which will be turned into our very own Sycamore Cook Book. | What are your favourite family meals at home, do you have a recipe? If so, send it in and we can consider making it. |
| Computing | This half term we will be using our ICT skills to design colourful posters that support the writing that we do in English, as well as advertising the products that we make for our enterprise project in Personal Development. | Have a look at advertisements and posters for different products and events that you see in magazines, newspapers and shop windows. What do you like about the poster? (the font, colour, layout and images are good starting points). Feel free to send an image in, or a description of where it can be found. |
| Art | This half term, pupils will be experimenting with tints and shades in order to make existing colours lighter and darker. We will then create a series of landscape art works that demonstrate these skills. | If you are out and about, feel free to take a picture of a landscape that your child feels has elements of light and dark for us to have a look at and use as inspiration.
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| TITAN | Pupils will attend regular walking trips in order to practise their road safety skills. This will be within Sheringham and aims to improve knowledge and confidence in becoming more independent in their personal safety. | Explore road signs when you are out and about together. What do they mean? If you do not know, use the internet to find out. |
| PE | Jason has secured the services of the Norfolk Cricket Board to begin the Spring Term. This is fantastic news that will provides pupils with expert tuition and in the sport. | How can you exercise in the house when it is cold or wet outside? Can you think of an exercise to do whilst sat down in a chair or on the floor? How about inventing a stretch and naming it? |
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