Ranelagh Primary School
Penguins
Welcome to the Penguins' Class
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This year, your teacher will be Miss Lambert.
Your teaching assistants will be Miss Pryke (Mon-Thurs), Miss Anje (Mon- Fri) and Miss Arthur (Fri).
Reminders:
PE
Our PE days will be Tuesday and Thursday. Children are expected to come to school in their NORMAL UNIFORM and they will get changed in school for PE lessons. Children are welcome to leave their PE kit as school during the week and take home on Thursday.
PE kit is a plain white t-shirt, black shorts and trainers. Long trousers and a hoodie/jacket is strongly advised as the weather gets colder. Also, jewellery is not permitted during PE and all long hair should be tied up.
Learning at home
- Homework
A homework task will be given out on a Friday but is expected to be handed in by the following Wednesday to allow time for their work to be looked at. This homework task will alternate between a maths, English or a topic based task.
- TT Rockstars
At least 3 times per week (at least 10 minutes each time).
This is extremely important in improving their times tables knowledge and great practice for the national times table test that every year 4 will be taking in the Summer term.
The website to access this is: https://ttrockstars.com/
Children should be aware of their logins for this - if unsure please contact the class teacher.
- Reading
At least 3 times per week. We use 'Accelerated Reader' where the children read their book and then quiz online. If children finish their books at home, they can access the quiz by following the link below. Children will then be given the opportunity to change their books the next day in school.
Username - The first letter of your child's first name, followed by the first 4 letters of their surname (no spaces).
Password - abc
Autumn 1 in the Penguins’ class!
This term in English, we will be starting a new scheme for writing called ‘Ready, Steady, Write!’. We are writing a narrative based on the book ‘The Iron Man’ by Ted Hughes.
In Maths, we will be working through the 'Place Value' and 'Addition & Subtraction' blocks using our White Rose schemes of work. We will use lots of manipulatives to develop our understanding and will also have lots of opportunities to practise our mental maths.
During our Science lessons, we will be looking at human and animal skeletons and how they move.
In History, we will be learning about the Stone Age and how this led up to the Iron Age.
In PE, we will be learning to play basketball and creating dances on the theme ‘wild animals’.
In DT, we will be working on our textiles skills and making trousers for ‘UG’ a character from a book we have read.
In PSHE and RSHE we will be learning about the school community and respect.
In Computing we will be learning about data collection.
Lastly in RE, we are looking at the religion Christianity, exploring our focus question ' How does believing Jesus is their saviour inspire Christians to save and serve others?’
