Welcome back to school in a brand new year – 2016! Thank you very much for all presents and cards that I received from the children for Christmas and I hope you all had a fun and restful break.

The Spring term looks like it is going to be very busy. Most of the class and I are off to Thurston Outdoor Education Centre on February 1st – I hope the rain stops by then! We are also going to be working towards the ever-looming SATs. This term will require a lot of hard work and dedication from all children and I am sure that they will work to the best of their ability.

In English our studies will be focused on the book ‘Stormbreaker’ by Anthony Horowitz about the adventures of Alex Rider who is recruited to join MI6 while only a teenager. Through our study of this text we will hone our inference and deduction skills as well as showing of our writing talents in many genres e.g. explanation and persuasion. In maths, the first half of this term will be focused on fractions, ratio and proportion and measures.

Our topic this half term is ‘Scandinavia’ a geography based unit that is focused on the human and physical geography of Sweden, Norway and Denmark. We will research a Scandinavian country and write non-chronological reports about them before going on to write persuasively to encourage others to visit this unspoilt part of the world. Hopefully we will create some beautiful pastel art work of the Northern Lights and be able to write an explanation text to explain this natural phenomena.

In ICT we will be programming using Kodu and we will be studying Bon Jovi’s ‘Living On A Prayer’ in our music lessons.