Half Term Information Spring 1 2025

What an amazing term we’ve had! We had the lovely opportunity to ‘travel’ to Egypt during our Egyptian day. The children had an amazing experience to have hands on experience of everything they have been reading, studying and researching about Ancient Egypt in our Topic lessons this half term.

The children have learned about everyday life as well as that of the Pharaohs. We have learned so many facts about the process of mummification (yes even the gory details!), the life of one of the most famous Pharaoh’s, Tutankhamun, and how the River Nile was utilised. This learning also inspired our English work. The children wrote wonderful adaptations of the traditional tale of Cinderella, wrote poems inspired by the River Nile and biographies about King Tut himself.

In Science and RE (religious studies) we focused on light. Why light is important for a variety of world religions and sources of light. We focused on how some things might look like a source of light be in fact are reflectors of light. We measured shadows tracked their changes over the course of the day.

In Maths we continued to learn our multiplication and explored long multiplication and we now know multiplication is the opposite of division. The children grasped the need of knowing their times tables in order to help them with their division calculations.

Useful website links to continue learning at home:
 
www.purplemash.com
 
https://ttrockstars.com/
 
https://www.topmarks.co.uk/maths-games/daily10