Welcome to Summer 2025,

Centaur Class!

Hope you enjoyed a fantastic week, having time with family and friends.

This term our theme is "Inventive Iron Age."  We will learn to develop chronological knowledge of the Iron Age, learn about the most influential events, locations and structures of Iron Age history, learn about life in the Iron Age and how it compares to life now. This term is filled with many extra curriculum events, such as Legoland, transition days, Summer Fair and sleepover.  Fingers crossed for good weather!

Please provide a named PE kit (PE on Wednesdays), named clear water bottle, named wellington boots (for OPAL), a named coat, and as our weather is so changeable, please provide a sun hat and sun cream when needed.  Recorders need to be in on Mondays please.

With regards to homework, children are expected to:

• Read at home for 20 minutes (as a minimum) every day, the reading record also needs to be completed on the GoRead app, (https://parents.boomhub.app/) with the book and the pages read.  We are aiming for all children to receive a minimum of 6 x 30 reads per year.
• Practise spellings every day, these will be tested on a Friday and new spellings will be posted on DoodleSpell the same day.  These are in addition to the Spelling Bee words, which are mainly the Government Y3/4 statutory spellings and are available on the class page. The Spelling Bee occurs at the end of each long term and the children will need to achieve a minimum of 35 correct from this list in order to be able to take part.
• Times tables every day, try online games like: www.timestables.co.uk/7-times-table.html or songs like those on Scratch Garden or BBC Supermovers.
• Complete twenty minutes of DoodleMaths (as a minimum) every day to aid mental calculation and to earn rewards within the platform. Assignments will also be set regularly with specific deadlines (All children are expected to complete these).

I will update the class page once a week to celebrate all the amazing learning the children have been part of, so please take a look.  We also will put achievements on the school Facebook page, so make sure you are able to access this.

Communication is key, so please use the "contact the teacher" form, catch me at the door or leave a message at the office.  Alone we can do so little, together we can do so much!  

Mrs Brock