Green Class 2026 - 2027

 

Welcome to Green Class – Autumn Term!

 

Mrs Yeomans

Mrs Costa

Mrs Haydn-Lee

 

You will receive a weekly update from Green Team on a Friday via email. Please read this information carefully as we will share important information, changes and updates about our learning. You can find more information about what we are up to throughout the school website, our weekly newsletter sent via email for regular whole school updates, and through the class newsletter. Please contact through the school office on admin@peartreeprimary.co.uk .

 

Children will need to bring a water bottle to school every day. Please ensure snacks are named. Snacks could include: a piece of fruit, vegetable sticks, cheese and crackers. We are a nut free school so please no nuts or sweets.   

 

PE this half term will be Tag Rugby on Tuesdays and Personal Challenges on Thursday.

 

Home Learning will be handed out every Thursday and checked the following Thursday. Children will be expected to practise weekly spellings to support their writing in school.

Children should access Times Tables Rock Stars at home regularly to develop their fluency before the Multiplication Tables Check in Year 4. Logins will be sent home with the children and challenges and competitions will be reviewed in school. If your child does not have access to a device for regular, brief practise, please let us know so we can discuss alternate provision.  

Regular home reading is key and we encourage all children to develop a love of reading.. Please encourage your child to record their home reading in their reading diary on a daily basis. We will check the reading diaries on a weekly basis.  Being a fluent reader is important but understanding the meaning of unknown words is crucial. Please encourage your child to ask for meanings of new or unfamiliar words so these can form part of their vocabulary. 

 

Our topic this term is The Stone Age which we will study through History and Art units. Prehistoric Britain will be brought to life through a Stone Age workshop.

 In Science, we will be learning to classify rocks based on their formation and properties. We will find out how fossils are formed and discover what makes up the layer of soil beneath our feet.

In English, we begin with a whole school narrative on Journey by Aaron Becker. This incredible illustrated story has no words which will help us to become authors as we build our inference and vocabulary skills together. Following this, we will be learning about the “Place Value of Grammar and Punctuation” where we will be reviewing the building blocks of sentence construction. Children will learn about the purpose of words and how they help us create sensical sentences. We will be reading a gorgeous story called Arthur and the Golden Rope as our Literacy Leaf this half term, following a young boy on a quest to save his village from a mythical beast.

In Maths, we will learn how to partition numbers up to 1,000. We will work on swift methods for adding and subtracting 1, 10 and 100. We will estimate using a numberline and compare and order numbers, using partitioning to support.

In Computing, we will be working logically to create programs using 2Code on Purple Mash. Children will learn how to use “if…then” statements and develop variables within their program, debugging where necessary.

In Art, children will take inspiration from prehistoric cave paintings, using traditional techniques to produce wonderfully evocative nature-based art. Children will develop their skills of using basic shapes to develop line drawing skills.

In PSHE, children will meet their HappyBrain and think about their happy places.

In RE, children will learn about how different religions symbolise and speak to their god or gods. Children will look at the Christian concept of the Trinity as well as the Creation story.