Dear Parents and Carers,
I hope everyone feels refreshed after our week off- welcome back to the final summer half term.
The following seven weeks will be history focused and we will be researching using historical skills of
inference, extracting information from sources, evaluating historical figures and the opportunity, like
historians, to decide their criteria for significance. We will be asking questions around the
significance of various historical figures and deciding why we think certain people have become
historically important.
Our work in English will be focused on the study and staging of Macbeth by William Shakespeare.
Returning home from battle, power-hungry, ambitious Macbeth meets three evil witches who tell
him that he will soon be king. Macbeth immediately tells his scheming wife, Lady Macbeth, who
pressurises him into murdering the current King Duncan. Macbeth soon finds himself trapped in a
web of deceit, murder, guilt and madness until a final battle reveals the truth behind the prophecies,
as foretold by the cunning witches. We will use an excellent adaptation of one of Shakespeare’s
most popular tragedies to retell this great story and bring to life through a live performance on
Tuesday 23rd July at 2pm in the grounds of St Andrew’s Church, Calstock.
In maths, we will continue to practise place value and mental skills and written methods around
addition, subtraction, multiplication and division. We will revisit fractions and equivalence, adding
and subtracting fractions, multiples and factors, short multiplication and division, reading and
interpreting time tables, line graphs, comparing units of measure and decimal numbers.
Please see our project map for more detail about our curriculum.
Staffing: Mrs Kilpin teaches Class Three all day Monday to Thursday and Mrs Breeze will teach all
morning on a Friday with Mrs Liddicott teaching PE in the afternoon. Mr Waters works in class full
time as a higher level teaching assistant and Mrs Ross works as a 1:1 learning support assistant. Mrs
Read offers one to one tuition as an intervention through the National Tutoring catch-up
programme.
Routines: PE and outdoor learning lessons will be on Thursday and Friday afternoons. Children’s PE
kit and wet weather kit should be kept in school at all times if possible. We try to do as much
outdoor learning as possible so we also ask that children should keep outdoor shoes/wellies at
school if possible.
Thank you again for all of your support; please do contact me if you have any questions.
