Term 1

This term, we are using the text The Tear Thief by Carol Ann Duffy to support our writing. We will be exploring complex sentences, expanded noun phrases and fronted adverbial phrases. The mysterious fairy-like Tear Thief, visible only as a reflection in a puddle, creeps into town at night, listening for the sound of crying. She snatches a tear from a boy in the bathtub, many from a girl in a tantrum, and some from fighting twins. In her collecting sack, the tears are jewels, coloured according to their cause, but the most valuable are the tears of real sadness. When the Tear Thief passes a girl crying these tears, the girl sees her in a puddle and asks about why she collects them. The Tear Thief tells her that the light of the moon is made of tears, but the most beautiful light comes from the tears of sadness. 

In Maths, we will be developing our Place Value understanding. This will include rounding numbers to the nearest 10. 100 and 1,000, Roman numerals and decimal numbers. 

Our Instructional Reading sessions will be using the text The Boy at the Back of the Classroom by Onjali Rauf. Through these sessions we will be looking at predicting, exploring answering direct retrieval questions, and inference questions.