Welcome to Miss Dobson’s class
October 2015 – December 2015
Welcome back!
I hope you all had a lovely break - I have heard lots of exciting tales about day trips and fun activities the children
enjoyed over the holidays, which is brilliant! It was lovely to meet all of you properly at parents evening, thank you
for taking the time to celebrate your children’s achievements!
This half term we already have lots of creative, fun activities planned around our topic ‘Gothic Victorians’ and the
children are going to continue to be making great use of their imaginations in their writing. They are going to
continue working towards producing a Gothic Museum, which you will be invited to visit at the end of this term on
Monday 14th December. It will be a fantastic afternoon, with festive refreshments in the small hall!
Please keep checking our class page on the school website – there are links to maths and English activities as well as
lots of pictures of all the amazing things we do in class.
At any time if you have any concerns you wish to discuss, my door is always open so please feel free to come in and
see me.
Miss Dobson
This half term the children will be learning all about:
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Famous Victorians
Victorian inventions
Victorian crime and punishment
Victorian school life
‘Jekyll and Hyde’ by Robert Louis Stevenson
Victorian Britain
2 and 3D Shapes
Fractions
Multiplication and
Division
Problem solving
The human body
The children will:
 Learn about life in Victorian Britain
 Write a biography about a famous Victorian
 Design gothic artwork based on a range of
Victorian gothic novels
 Explore crime and punishment and write a
balanced argument about these methods
 Take part in a Victorian day!
 Solve a wide range of mathematical problems in
context
Important dates and days:
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PE will be on Tuesdays
Steel pan drumming will take place on Mondays
Homework will go out on a Friday and is due back
on a Wednesday (there will also be a half termly
homework project due back in the last week of
the half term)
Reading books can be changed once a week (every
child knows their day)
Wednesday 4th November – Trip to Thackray
Museum
Thursday 19th November – Art workshop
Tuesday 24th November – Victorian day
W/C 30th November – Lineham Farm
Monday 14th December – Gothic Museum
You can help by:
 Listening to your child read on
a regular basis and asking
questions about the book
 Practising times tables (every
child knows which tables they
are working on)
 Practising spellings on the look, cover, say, write,
check sheet
 Supporting your child with their homework
project for their half term as well as weekly
homework
 Allowing your child to complete some
independent research into Victorian Britain