St. Paul
Paul is the great apostle who hated and first tortured the Christians, making them suffer much. Then on his road to Damascus Jesus changed his heart and he was converted. We celebrate Paul's conversion on January 25.
At the time of his conversion, Jesus had said: "I will show him how much he must suffer for me." St. Paul loved Jesus very much, so much, in fact, that he became a living copy of our Savior. All his life, as a missionary, St. Paul met troubles and went through dangers of every kind. He was whipped, stoned, shipwrecked, and lost at sea. Many, many times he was hungry, thirsty and cold.Yet he always trusted in God. He never stopped preaching. "The love of Jesus presses me onward," he said. In reward, God gave him great comfort and joy in spite of every suffering.
We read about his marvellous adventures for Christ in Luke's Acts of the Apostles, beginning with chapter nine. But St. Luke's story ends when Paul arrives in Rome. He is under house arrest, waiting to be tried by Emperor Nero. A famous early Christian writer, Tertullian, tells us that Paul was freed after his first trial. But then he was put in prison again. This time he was sentenced to death. He died around the year 67, during Nero's terrible torture of the Christians. Paul called himself the apostle of the Gentiles (people who were not Jews) and he preached the Good News of Jesus to them. That took him to the far ends of the world. Because of Paul, we, too, have received the Christian faith.
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We will be following ‘The Year Of Faith’ units of work:
Unit 1: In the Beginning
Unit 2: From Advent to Christmas
Other faith: Judaism
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Lessons Planned and taught by External Sports Company Non-Stop Action.
Football and Tag Rugby:
Children will be developing skills in controlling and receiving as well as develop attacking tactics using a range of equipment and skills.
Indoor PE: Gymnastics
At present your child will still be bringing home a school reading book. Please ensure that your child reads every night in order to develop fluency. Reading records are provided for date, book and comments to be added by an adult. Please ensure that the reading records are signed each time your child is listened to read. Also, if you could spend a little time talking about the text and asking questions to encourage your child to really think about what they have read. This will greatly help their comprehension skills. Evidence shows that good readers are also good spellers and good writers. Reading records will be checked by the class teachers every Friday and we will expect to see five adult signatures showing that you have heard your child read.
.Following the National Curriculum 2014
Topics covered this term:
Counting, partitioning and calculating
Securing number facts and understanding shape
Handling data and measures
Calculating, measuring and understanding shape
Securing number facts, relationships and calculating
In addition: weekly multiplication tables practice and test and mental maths practice
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The Stone Age
In this unit children will find out about the way of life of people living in The Stone Age from archaeological discoveries. Children will develop their understanding of characteristic features of a society; identify the different ways the past is represented; and use sources of information to make simple observations, inferences and deductions.
Children will learn about how people used to live, what people used to eat and what kind of works the used to do during the Stone Age, both ancient and modern and how they have changed over time; religious festivals and gods and goddesses
Creative Writing
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Planning and writing stories
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Character description
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Settings
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Story openings
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Diary entries
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Letters
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Various writing tasks linked to whole class reading
Fiction
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Stories with familiar settings
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Stories from other cultures and Traditional stories
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Fantasy
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Fables
Non-fiction
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Explanations and instructions
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Information Text
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Newspaper recount
Reading
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Whole class raeding
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Focus around a classic text- Stig of the Dump and a modern day text, The Wild Way Home.
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Guided/collaborative Reading Individual Reading
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Book Reviews on selected texts read.
Handwriting practice
Spelling and Punctuation: Weekly spelling homework and tests, ongoing consolidation and revision of punctuation
Weekly comprehension
Children are taught the skills of skimming and scanning text to look for key information.
Also the skills of inference and deduction in order to work out answers to questions.
Basic and Word Processing Skills
The children will be consolidating their skills using different word-processing tools.
Art Deco
The children will learn about the styles of the artist Megan. They will develop their skills in using a range of media.
French will continue to be taught weekly by Mrs. Ramdarshan.
Electricity
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• To identify common appliances that run on electricity
• To construct a simple series electrical circuit, identifying and naming its basic parts, including cells, wires, bulbs, switches and buzzers
• To identify whether or not a lamp will light in a simple series circuit, based on whether or not the lamp is part of a complete loop with a battery
• To recognise that a switch opens and closes a circuit and associate this with whether or not a lamp lights in a simple series circuit
• To recognise some common conductors and insulators, and associate metals with being good conductors.:
States of matter
• To compare and group materials together, according to whether they are solids, liquids or gases.
• To observe that some materials will change state when they are heated and cooled.
• To measure or research the temperature at which this happens in degrees Celsius.
• To identify the part played by evaporation and condensation in the water cycle and associate the rate of evaporation with temperature.
Scientific Enquiry focus:
Measuring temperatures
Planning a fair test
Drawing conclusions, comparing and explaining conclusions
Collecting and presenting evidence