Hoylandswaine Primary School

We hope you had a lovely festive period, with lots of joy, happiness and rest.  Welcome to our new year. Even though I won't be with you for all of this year, I know it's going to continue to be spectacular and you'll make me proud.

We'll be starting our new topic- Energy! Enough for Everyone? This topic will help develop our Geography skills, culminating in the creation our own plan of a locality which uses a range renewable energy sources and desirable land use. This will be presented as a map.

 In literacy we’ll continue to focus on reading, handwriting and SPaG and our first text will be Phillip Pullman's Northern Lights. We'll be using this as inspiration to write our own battle scene. In maths we’ll begin the term by revisiting place value, addition, subtraction in a range of different contexts. 

Each week children will challenge themselves with the ten minute timed activity (Soundcheck) on TT Rockstars, focussed on multiplication and division facts recall. We'll practise timestables throughout the week in the build up to this, but keep working on this at home too.  Additionally, the Year 4’s will undertake a statutory timed multiplication test at the end of the year.  

Spellings will be sent home weekly and will be available to download from the website too, as well as on the homework sheet on Seesaw. Each week children will have a cloze paragraph to apply their spelling knowledge to in context. The new spelling sheet will have the subsequent weeks spellings highlighted to show the spellings which still need further practice. 

We look forward to working with you in partnership. As always thanks for your support; together we’ll ensure your child continues to flourish and achieve. Here’s to 2022 and beyond…

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