Amethyst Class 2024 - 2025

Miss Rochell - Gill

Year 4/5 Teacher
Maths and Geography Lead

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Welcome to Amethyst Class!

Happy New Year!

I hope you've all had a restful break, enjoying the festivities with family and friends and are now ready for what 2025 brings us. We have another jam-packed half term on the cards and I can't wait to welcome the children back into the classroom.

Please note: this half term, our PE slots will take place on MONDAY and FRIDAY with a swimming session for our Year 4 children on a THURSDAY afternoon.

My PPA will be covered by Mrs Tomlinson on a Monday morning and she will cover, Maths including arithmetic skills and PE. Please ensure that children are appropriately dressed for our PE lessons, particularly whilst the weather remains unpredictably wet and cold.

We are also very fortunate to be joined by Mr Richards Monday to Thursdat. He will be working with small groups to build maths fluency and develop reasoning skills!

You can follow our learning journey via our school twitter account @LittleLeighSch, our facebook page and our new Instagram page.

If you need to discuss anything with me, please don't hesitate to contact me on my school email rrochellgill@littleleighprimary.cheshire.sch.uk.

Miss Rochell-Gill, Mrs Tomlinson, Mrs Green & Mr Richards

This half term in History we will be answering the question...

'What did the Greeks do for us?'

Ancient Greek Art and Architecture

Within this unit of work we will develop our historical knowledge of this time period, whilst using our historian skills to analyse, compare and contrast with other significant civilisations and modern day Britain.

Within our unit we will aim to learn:

Where and when Ancient Greece took place.

How Ancient Greece was divided into city-states.

Explore the differences and rivalry between the Athenians and Spartans.

Understand which Ancient Greek legacies have continued into modern day times including the Olympic Games.

As Writers...

Our writing this half term will be based upon the stunning book 'Kai and the Monkey King'.

When Kai grows tired of her bookish mum not being adventurous enough for a Brownstone, she decides to seek out the mischievous and rebellious Monkey King - who she's always been told to stay away from. Will he bring her the adventure she craves, or will he cause her more trouble than he's worth?

Our writing outcome will draw upon the writing style of this book and we will create our own myth based in Ancient China.

As Readers...

Our Shared reading lessons this half term will focus on the 'Fantastic Forests' an original non-fiction text by The Literacy Company.

Our reading experiences will also be immersed in the magical realm of Greek Myths and Legends including Pandora's Box and Theseus and the Minotaur.

As MAthematicians...

This half term we will continue to focus on:

Multiplication and Division facts related to learning our times tables
Written methods of multiplication and Division
Perimeter and Area

As Scientists...

This half term Y5 will:	This half term Y4 will:
compare and group together everyday materials on the basis of their properties, including their hardness, solubility, transparency, conductivity (electrical and thermal), and response to magnets know that some materials will dissolve in liquid to form a solution, and describe how to recover a substance from a solution use knowledge of solids, liquids and gases to decide how mixtures might be separated, including through filtering, sieving and evaporating give reasons, based on evidence from comparative and fair tests, for the particular uses of everyday materials, including metals, wood and plastic demonstrate that dissolving, mixing and changes of state are reversible changes explain that some changes result in the formation of new materials, and that this kind of change is not usually reversible, including changes associated with burning and the action of acid on bicarbonate of soda	identify how sounds are made, associating some of them with something vibrating recognise that vibrations from sounds travel through a medium to the ear find patterns between the pitch of a sound and features of the object that produced it find patterns between the volume of a sound and the strength of the vibrations that produced it recognise that sounds get fainter as the distance from the sound source increases

Reading

During the week, all children take part in several whole class reading sessions. Within these sessions we read a variety of extracts, chapters from stories and often work on our inference skills using video clips and images. These sessions aim to develop inference skills, comprehension of texts and fluency/understanding of the texts we read.

In KS2 we strongly encourage that children read three to four times a week. These sessions must be recorded with a short comment in their reading diary. Each week, children are able to earn five 'Home Reading' dojos which count towards a visit to our school reading shop.

Homework

Homework is set every Friday and is expected to be completed by the following Thursday. Maths homework will be set on TTRockstars with Spelling tasks being sent home in Spelling homework books.

I will be checking reading diaries each Friday.

If you have any issues regarding the homework set then please contact me via my school email and I will do my best to help resolve the issue.