This half term, our core texts are 'Wendel’s Workshop' and 'Rosie Revere Engineer'. Wendel is a mouse and an inventor/engineer. He lives in a workshop and invents things all the time. Rosie Revere is a story about a girl, who dreams of becoming a great engineer. She creates wonderful gadgets and gizmos - but only when no one is watching. We will use 'Rosie Revere' text to create our own newspaper report on one of Rosie’s inventions. We will be using our reading lessons to explore a variety of text types including narratives, poetry and non-fiction. We will use each text to focus on various learning strategies throughout the half term. Children will use their prior knowledge to infer about different parts of texts, they will also be making connections to their own experiences to relate to the different sections of the book. 

In science this half term, we will be learning more about forces. We will explore how objects move on different surfaces and will be carrying out investigations using magnets. From our investigation, we will notice that some forces need contact between two objects but magnetic forces can act at a distance. 

In R E we are continuing to learn about religious beliefs about God. The children will explore key principles of each faith week by week and discuss the different aspects of worship. We will then move on to explain the different ways Christmas is celebrated by Christians and non-Christians. and discuss the true meaning of Christmas to Christians in the final two weeks of the term.