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 24th February.

Dates 

27th February: Young Voices

6th March: World Book Day. Come to school in your PJs and bring a teddy!

18th March: Parents Evening

20th March: Parents Evening

21st March: Inset Day

7th April: Parent Open Afternoon

Curriculum

Our topic this term is 'Mighty Metals.' We will be basing our topic around Ted Hughes' book 'The Iron Man,' especially in our literacy lessons to make predictions about the story before writing diary extracts and newspaper reports.

In science, we will be investigating materials that are magnetic, followed by discovering how sounds are made and the difference between pitch and volume. 

In history, children will be using chronology to identify the development of tools from the Stone Age through to the Iron Age. They will discover how the discovery of metal changed the way people lived. 

In Design and Technology, children will explore pulley mechanisms in a bid to rescue the Iron Man from a pit! 

Using maps of the UK, children will position human and physical geographical features using the correct symbols in geography. 

In art, children will be exploring different artists who create sculptures before creating their own metal sculpture. 

Children will be learning to programme sequences in ICT. 

In RE, we will find out why Pentecost is important to Christians. 

Children will be gaining an understanding of everyday emotions and how to express those feelings, as well as looking at mental health and how to develop a healthy mindset in our Wellbeing lessons. 

In maths, we will be finding fractions of amounts; ordering fractions on number lines and knowing the decimal equivalents of fractions. This will be followed by measure and time. 

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. 

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! On TTRS, children can play the game 'Sound Check', which is good practise for the Year 4 times table test.

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