Welcome to Willow Class

I (Mr. Ainarkar) will be your class teacher and Miss. Patel will be our HLTA.

Miss. Patel will be teaching in Willow Class in the afternoons from Wednesday - Friday.

PE Days

Our PE days are Monday and Friday.

Children need to come to school in their PE kits.

They will also need non-black soled trainers for their PE days.

This term our focus will be on Tennis and on Orienteering.

Homework

Homework will be sent home on a Friday and will be expected back in school on a Monday.

This will change as we build up momentum in preparation for KS2 SAT's.

Reading

All children are expected to READ TO AN ADULT at least THREE TIMES A WEEK.

This is imperative if we are to help our children build their reading comprehension and reading stamina in general.

We encourage the children to keep up with their reading at home and this will be monitored so that the children can then win their Reading Badges.

English

In English, we will be working on the following genres of writing:

Narrative: Short Stories with Flashbacks - We will be focusing on the classic, "Carries War" by Nina Bawden and then moving onto writing our own versions of stories with flashbacks exploring the idea of surviving a natural disaster.

An example of some of our modelled writing:

Maths

In Maths, we have been looking at ways in which we can improve our ability to understand and answer Reasoning Questions.

We have worked on the following Success Criteria which has really helped us to be able to break down and answer reasoning questions correctly.