Meet the team:

Mr N Rourke (Class Teacher)

Mrs Van Jaarsveld (Teaching Assistant) 

Our Learning

Welcome to Turing class! Here you will find our newsletters, photos of our topic work and any important information about our class. Our class is taught by Mr Rourke Monday to Thursday. 

It's going to be a busy term! We have a trip, test week, Bikability and lots of learning to take place.

We will also launch into our second main topic of the year: Watch This Space, primarily a science-based topic, involving scientific invesigations as well as looking at history and how primary sources have evoloved and changed over time. We will also be looking at deforestation in Geography and debugging with computers.

Maths

In maths this term, our main focus is addition and subtraction, where we will be solving multi-step problems in contexts, deciding which operation and methods to use and why. Also we will be using column subtraction for two numbers with more than 4, 5 and 6-digits when (exchanging) red alerts are required in multiple columns and use column addition and subtraction to add and subtract decimal numbers with 1, 2, or 3 decimal places.

English

In guided reading, our learning is based around the book 'The Boy With the Butterfly Mind'.

In writing, we will be learning and practising skills such as: compound sentences, ISPACE sentence starters, subordinating conjunctions, relative clauses and paragraphing.  We will explore these skills through a range of different texts, including independent writings and setting descriptions.

Important Class Information:

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

Reading Books: reading books will be changed on Tuesday.

Homework: A homework grid for this term is attached below.

Reading: Please continue to listen to your child read daily, even for 10 minutes, and encourage them to complete the reading task in the reading journal. Books should be changed regularly. Comprehension texts will continue to be set for the children to complete regularly on Rockerbox at home. 

Times Tables: It is important all pupils are learning (and continue to practice) the timetables up to the 12 times table. These should be known by the end of year 4 but it is essential that the children continue to practice and recall these facts. 

Key Dates:

Back to school – 3rd November 

Rotary Art competition- 11th November 

Space centre trip (Leicester)- 27th November 

Christmas jumper day- 1st December 

Christmas fayre- 4th December 

KS2 performance- 17th December

Bikeability - 8th-19th December

Break up for Christmas – 19th December