Green Class 2026 - 2027

Support Staff

Mrs Costa

Mrs Haydn-Lee

Communication 

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 .

Snacks and Water 

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 

PE this half term will be Gymnastics on Tuesdays and Football on Thursday.

Home learning and Reading 

Home Learning will be handed out every Tuesday and checked the following Tuesday. 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. 

Topics

Our topic this term is The United Kingdom which we will study through a Geography unit focusing on the physical and human features in our local area and beyond.

 In Science, we will be learning about light. Children will discover how we see as light is reflected into our eyes. They will be able to identify different light sources around them and understand when surfaces are merely reflective.

In English, we will be learning how to write instructions and persuasive adverts, inspired by the “failed projects” in The Barnabus Project. We will continue reading the BFG which we started last term and continue to develop the skill of identifying key evidence to justify inferences or predictions.

In Maths, we will be applying our understanding of place value in order to calculate three-digit additions and subtractions. Children will learn how column methods work, beginning with the smallest value column. We begin by using dienes to support calculation before moving onto a more efficient abstract method.

In Computing, we will be learning about how emails can be used safely and how to plan routes involving simple turns of 45 and 90 degrees. This will develop algorithmic language used in our coding unit later in the year.

In DT, children will develop an understanding of simple shell structures in order to create their own desk tidies.

In Music, we will be developing choral singing in advance of our concert at St Mary’s Church in Nantwich in December.

In PSHE, children will meet their HappyBrain and think about their happy places as well as their reasons to celebrate.

In RE, children will learn about how people’s beliefs can develop from birth as they are welcomed into different religions. Children will learn about the meaning behind the Christmas celebration.