Welcome to Galaxy Class Page

Meet the team: 

Mr W Major (Class Teacher)

Mrs C Adams (Teaching Assistant)

Here you will find our newsletters, photos and any important information about our class. Please pop back here to see what we have been doing during the term and to find out what is coming up.

Important class information

PE Days: Tuesdays and Thursdays. Children need to come to school wearing their PE kit.

Reading Books: reading books will be changed on Tuesdays and Thursdays. The school expectation is for children to change their books within a 2-week period. 

Lunchtimes: Children will be eating lunch in their houses (Apollo, Endeavour, Galileo and Phoenix), and houses will be rotated regularly. This provides children with the opportunity to mix with other year groups and to make new friends. 

Homework: A homework grid will be added to the website and will be due in on Monday 2nd June.

Reading: Please continue to listen to your child read daily, even for 10 minutes, and get your child to complete the reading task in the reading journal. Books should be changed regularly. Books are changed on Tuesdays and Fridays. 

Dates 

5th May - Bank holiday

8th May - VE day celebrations

19th May - Mini Medics

Curriculum

This Term’s Topic: Water Power

This term, our learning will be centred around the theme of Water Power.

In Literacy, pupils will explore a variety of poems, developing their comprehension skills and using these texts as inspiration to compose their own original poem.

In Geography, children will deepen their understanding of the water cycle, identify and label key rivers and mountain ranges across the UK, examine significant geographical features of rivers, and explore how water can be harnessed as a source of power.

During Science, pupils will investigate the structure of food chains.

In Art, the focus will be on developing shading techniques to create contrast and depth through the use of light and dark.

Within Religious Education, children will explore how festivals and acts of worship reflect core beliefs and values to Muslims.

In Wellbeing, pupils will learn to distinguish between safe and unsafe secrets, understand the concept of consent, differentiate between legal and illegal substances, and acquire basic first aid skills.

In Mathematics, the focus will be on identifying angles, alongside interpreting data in the context of statistics.

Times Tables Rockstars: Regular practise TTRS will help pupils to retain knowledge that they can utilise facts in other mathematical learning. All pupils should have their login details and can play on phones or tablets!

Times Tables: It is important all pupils learn their timetables up to the 12 times table and know these by the end of year 4.  On Times Tables Rockstars, pupils can play 'Sound Check,' an MTC simulator that presents 25 multiplication questions (up to 12×12), with a six-second time limit for each question.

Thank you for your continued support. Please don't hesitate to contact me if you have any queries.