Welcome to Jackals.

We are Jolly Jackals.

This year we are going to be learning lots of new and interesting things, if you want to find out about some of them keep reading below and look on our Seesaw page for updates too.

Jolly Jackals work hard, follow the Golden Rules and have lots of fun too.

 Mrs Cheetham is our class Teacher, she loves reading all kinds of books, watching Korean dramas and having a nice cup of coffee. If you need to contact Mrs Cheetham her email is kcheetham@cescent.notts.sch.uk

Ms Swinscoe is our amazing Teaching Assistant, she loves animals, watching tv and having a nice cup of tea.

Here are a few notices you will need for your child in Jackals.

The main door to Jackals opens at 8:40 -8:50 am and school finishes at 3:20 pm.

Please send your child to school in their (weather appropriate) P.E kit on Tuesdays and Wednesdays.

Earrings will need to be removed for these lessons.

Please read with your child 3 times or more each week and sign their Reading Record, they will be rewarded Star Stamps for this.

Homework will be set each Friday on Seesaw, please ensure this is sent back before 9am the following Friday.

Spellings will be given on EdShed and in your child's Reading Record ready for the spelling quiz held each Friday.

School water bottles should be in school each day - please fill these at home.

Keep your eyes peeled on Jackals' class window for updates and further notices.

If you have any questions, please do not hesitate to come and talk to me, I am looking forward to a brilliant year with Jackals class.

Let's Go Team Jackals.

During the Summer term, Jackals will continue to follow the "Pathways to Write" scheme and this term our 2 focus texts will the 'Journey' by Aaron Becker and 'Zeraffa Giraffa' by Dianne Hofmeyr. In Summer 1, our learning will be leading up to us writing our own adventure story based on the 'Journey' using the language  of Berlie Doherety's text 'Tilly Mint Tales. We will learn how to : use the present perfect form of verbs in contrast to the past tense, use prepositions, conjunctions and adverbs to express time and place, group related ideas into paragraphs and use small details to describe characters. These are just a few of the writing techniques Jackals will be mastering.

Summer 2, will see us leading up to a piece of persuasive writing about visiting Zeraffa at the Jardin des Plantes in Paris. Building on what we will have learnt in Summer 1, we will also be: Writing in logical order, using 2nd or 3rd person to talk directly to the reader and selecting organisational features e.g opening statement and sub headings. We are excited to share our amazing writing with you soon.

Throughout the year, we will be reading a variety of books to help us foster a love of reading.  During our reading lessons, we will follow  the Grammarsaurus Comprehension Crusher scheme and we will begin Sumer 1 with reading non fiction texts about the Artic and Atlantic Oceans. We will then learn about explanation texts and connect our History and Science learning by reading about mummification and the seasons.

We will be using inference and retrieval skills to answer questions about what we have read. Predictions about texts will be made before reading them. Jackals will also be sharing our favourite reads with our class through book reviews too. Jackals have voted to read Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets and Bad Guys this term.

Jackals will be learning all about words and the spelling rules they have, we will be learning about diagraphs and trigraphs, prefixes and suffixes and what happens to the root word when these are added. To help us with these spelling rules, some of us will also be taking part in a phonics intervention to help boost our confidence when spelling words. A spelling quiz will take place weekly on the words we have learnt. 

 In the Summer Term, Jackals will continue to develop our knowledge and understanding of Fractions including how to add and subtract unit and non-unit fractions. We will then learn about measurements focussing on money including converting between pounds and pence and how to add and subtract. We will then learn about time including telling the time, reading the time on a digital clock and units of time. Following this, we will learn about shape in Geometry including angles and 2D and 3D shape properties and finally statistics where we will focus on understanding and using pictograms, bar charts and 2-way tables.

Our Science learning in the Summer Term will be ‘Flowering plants and plant growth’ in Summer 1, followed by ‘The life cycle of flowering plants’ in Summer 2. In the first half term, Jackals will learn about the role function of leaves, stems, roots, the parts of a flowering plant and why plants need space to grow successfully. In the second half term we will know what pollination is and the different ways this can occur as well as different methods of seed dispersal in plants, fruits and vegetables.

In RSHE, Jackals will continue to link our ‘Healthy Bodies, Healthy Minds’ learning whilst developing our knowledge of how to make healthy choices and dealing with feelings. In our equality and inclusion learning, we will be exploring the topic of including everyone and know that there is a protected characteristic of sexual orientation. As always, we will continue to learn about online safety and will become knowledgeable about the ways technology can be used to sadly bully others and strategies to address this.

As our Summer Term topic is ‘Ancient Egypt: What made it so successful?’, our History learning will be an important part of this term. We will begin by finding out the answer to the question ‘How did Early Egypt begin and what was it like there?’ before moving on to knowing more about the ‘Old Kingdom’ including beliefs in Ancient gods and the afterlife, the role of the pyramids and significant changes as a result of the transition to the New Kingdom.

We will learn about the historical theme of 'Power' and the substantive concepts of civilisation, trade, settlement, empire monarchy and rebellion. The historical skills we will continue to develop are chronology, evidence and interpretation, historical significance, cause and consequence and similarity and difference.

Geography in the Summer Term will be based on the topic of ‘The conservation of bees’. We will learn about the importance of bees nationally and within our school environment. We will undertake fieldwork to investigate conservation strategies and record our findings as geographers.

In Art, our artist focus will be Georges Seurat. We will find out more about who he was and explore his style of art before learning more about the pointillism style whilst developing our skills of using different colours, shading and how other effects can be created

 In computing, upon completion of our Computer systems and networks learning, Jackals will be learning about events and actions in programming, including how to fix bugs and adapt a programme to a new context. In Summer 2, we will be learning about stop frame animations as part of our ‘Creating Media’ topic. We will know what an animation is, plan an animation and create this before reviewing and evaluating it. As always Esafety will be a priority in Jackals and we will be working on keeping ourselves safe whilst on the internet.

Jackals will be exploring the topic of Inspirational People From The Past. As part of our RE lessons we will be building upon our knowledge of Abraham, Moses, Jesus and Mohammed. We will learn about:  who Abraham was, Moses and The Ten Commandments, The 10 Plagues and the miracles of Jesus and how Abraham, Moses, Jesus and Mohammed are inspirational people. We will learn to understand differences and similarities within a variety of religions and will discuss our thoughts and feelings around religion in sensitive manner.

Our music lessons will see us exploring the structure of songs, the patterns within songs and improvising using our voices and instruments. During the topic Enjoying Improvisation, we will be learning and performing songs such as ‘He’s Got The Whole World In His Hands’and Panda Extravaganza. Opening Night will see us learning the songs, ‘Michael Row The Boat’ and ‘The Dragon Song.’ Keep your eyes peeled on Seesaw for videos of our progress.

We are very lucky to have a wide variety of sports coaches who deliver exciting and interesting P.E lessons. This term Jackals will be having Athletics and football lessons. PE will take place on Tuesdays and Wednesdays.  Please remember to remove earrings prior to the lessons.

Jackals will be building upon the French we have already learnt. The two topic areas we shall be covering are: Les Instruments (Instruments) and Je Peux (I am able).  By the end of the topic Les Instruments we will have learnt the names of ten instruments, explored the determiners- ‘a’ and ‘the’ and placed these Wonderful Words into sentences in French. At the end of Je Peux (I am able) we will be able to identify ten infinitive verbs and say whether we like or dislike the verb and write these in the written form.

During our DT lessons, Jackals will be looking at and making Mechanical Systems.