Learning Powers and Mental Health
Our learning Power this half term will be 'Concentration', where the children will learn all about how we can build concentration building strategies and how we can focus on the task at hand. The school continues to be focused on mental health and wellbeing where every child will be given a weekly opportunity to express themselves and learn about how to build coping strategies for a range of emotions.
This Term's Topic

Our topic this term is a History topic called 'Stone Age to Iron Age' where will learn to arrange events from the past in order, explain the achievements of prehistoric man, understand how people adapted during the Ice Age and understand how and why prehistoric man advanced from hunter gatherers to farmers.
Reading
With reading being such an important part of every child's learning, we are really encouraging all pupils to read as much as possible out of school as well as during the school day. As mentioned previously, we have now introduced a reading list which we will upload every half term with books that are related to our current topic so that children can immerse themselves in the theme.
All children will be able to choose a book from our class library to be kept in school so they can read at opportunities during the day-which will ideally be every day! The children can also take out a book from the school library once a week on a Thursday. They are able to take this book home but it can only be returned on a Thursday.
In the juniors, we will introduce a class book as part of guided reading sessions where the children will have the opportunity to widen their vocabulary and deepen their understanding, as well as having independent reading time. Our Guided Reading book is 'Stig of the Dump by Clive King'
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