Welcome back and Happy New Year to you all. We hope you had a restful Christmas break and enjoyed some quality time together. The children have returned with fantastic attitudes and plenty of enthusiasm for the term ahead — thank you for helping them come back ready to learn.

It’s been a busy first week as we’ve begun several of our new topics. In Science, we’ve begun exploring electricity, starting with identifying and drawing circuit symbols. The children have already shown great curiosity, and we’ll soon be moving on to building and testing circuits of our own.

In History, we’ve stepped into our new topic on World War Two. This week we focused on setting the scene: when the war began, who was involved, and how life in Britain changed. The children asked thoughtful questions and are clearly eager to learn more about this important period.

Looking ahead, next week we begin our first Positive Minds session. This programme will run throughout the term and will support the children in developing resilience, emotional awareness, and strategies for positive wellbeing — a valuable part of preparing them for the transition to secondary school.

Our topics for this half term are:
Science - Electricity
History - WW2
RE - Hinduism
DT - Torches
Music - Songs from WW2
PSHE - Keeping Safe
Computing - Webpages

Home Learning
You have the following assignments to complete on Doodle:

Maths - Express information as ratios
English - Man of steel (comprehension)
Spelling - Words ending in 'ture'
Please learn the following words which all end in 'ture':
creature, furniture, picture, nature, adventure, feature, culture, future

You must also make sure that you read at least five times during the week and record this in your reading record. These are checked every Friday. 

Next week: 

PE days will be Wednesday and Thursday (this will be the same every week going forward).
On Wednesday morning, we are walking to Rickmansworth School to watch their performance of Guys and Dolls. We will return to school for the afternoon. 
On Wednesday, we have our first Positive Minds session run by Watford Football Club. 
In Maths, we will be learning to solve problems involving ratio, identifying scale factors and creating scale drawings. 
In English, we will be using similes and metaphors to describe settings, and desribing changes in place and weather. 

Have a brilliant weekend!
Mrs Rayburn