Mr Christofa and Mrs Lawry

PE Days: Tuesdays and Fridays

Pencil cases: sharp pencils, writing pen (if you have a pen licence), whiteboard pen, rubber, ruler, selection of colouring pencils, red pen, highlighter and a glue stick.

Important dates

28.11.25: Inset day

01.12.25: Inset day

18.12.25: Christmas jumper day, Christmas lunch and Christmas fayre

19.12.25: Pantomime 

Homework 

English (20 minutes): Attached at the bottom of the page are spelling lists that many of our class find some of the spellings difficult to spell. Spend half term having a little test to see which ones are tricky and then practice these. 

Maths (20 minutes): Addition and subtraction booklets have come home on Friday. These are your maths homework. 

History: After half term, we will be studying the Anglo Saxons. Below is a great introduction to this topic. Watch and take notes of any important facts... 

Life in Anglo Saxon Britain | The Story of Britain | BBC Teach

Picture News

Class Reader

This half term's class reader is 'The Chronicles of Naria: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe' by C.S.Lewis.

A Taste Of Our Learning

Science

This week, we learnt about Alice Ball, a famous black female scientist who was the first black woman to graduate from the Unviersity of Hawaii. She developed the Ball Method, a way of treating leprosy. To showcase our learning, we made one pagers, thinking about the important information we wanted to capture on the page, as well as how to make it engaging and interesting for the reader. Some great examples are below...

Class assembly- Black History Month 

Our class assembly was this week. We did our assembly on Black History Month, which always falls in October. We sang a song naming the 50 states of America, spoke about famous people in America's black history, and then sang a song at the end called 'A Change Is Gonna Come' by Sam Cooke. It was a moving assembly, where everyone learnt lots about black history, and the children did fantastically! 

 

History and World, Faith and Philosophy – Winchester trip 

This week, we went to Winchester for a school trip! We spent our morning at the 878AD Workshop learning about the Anglo-Saxons, as after half-term we will be learning all about this! This was our launch to the topic. It was a fascinating workshop, where we became immersed in life during those times. It was very different from today! Then, we spent our afternoon at Winchester Cathedral (built around the Anglo-Saxon times) and learnt about worship, the history of the cathedral and even got to stand where Jane Austin was buried. It was a fantastic day, learning lots of amazing facts! 

World, Faith and Philosophy- Vicar Visit

This week, a vicar from a local church visited our school. She began by telling us all about her life as a scientist and a vicar. She then showed us an acorn. She said that she loved one of our school values being 'curiosity' and found acorns to be very curious. She told a story about the lifecycle of an acorn and then gave us each an acorn to take home and grow an oak tree! It was a lovely assembly, ending in a prayer for anyone who wanted to join in. This was a great way to understand different religions. 

Computing, Science and PSHE- Smartphone Free Workshops

As part of Langrish's push for a smartphone-free childhood, we participated in a workshop delivered by Papaya. This workshop was a fantastic opportunity to learn the why; why is it that Langrish feels we should not have a smartphone in our childhoods? We explored what life was like before smartphones, we delved into the science of how smartphones affect our brains, we learnt how tech companies created smartphones (including how the apps are designed) and then we looked at how dangerous they are for our mental health, especially the concept that they can be addictive, creating dopamine depletion in many young people. We finished by making pledges for our tech-based futures. A fascinating workshop that Bee Class engaged in brilliantly! 

World, Faith and Philosophy

In World Faith and Philosophy this week, we have been continuing our learning around rituals within Judaism. We started by unpicking the difference between a ritual and a routine. We then moved onto learning about Sukkot and had a go at creating one as a class! Below is a picture of us in our creation. 

Railway Assembly 

This week, we participated in our annual railway assembly, where we learnt about how to stay safe when we are near or on trains. We learnt that it takes a train 6 football pitches in length to stop! I wonder if your child could tell you what else they learnt? 

Geography

Over the past couple of weeks, we have been exploring North America in Geography, using maps and Google Earth to locate the continent, discover the countries and capital cities. In one lesson, we focused on working out how you would get to North America from the United Kingdom using a compass. Then, in this week's lesson, we focused on the various countries across North America, their capital cities and then wrote sentences describing how you could get from Canada to Panama.

 

PSHE- People Project

This week, we learnt about Martin Luther King Jr and Rosa Parks as part of the People Project, 'How To Change The World,' a history unit. We wrote speeches on topics we are passionate about, just like Martin Luther King Jr, and then delivered these speeches to the class. They were on topics like animals, people's rights, and the environment. Then, we made black history timelines. 

Rights Respecting Charter

Learning Behaviours

During our first session back, we discussed which learning behaviours we felt were going to support us best as learners this year. This is different from last year because, for the first time, we chose them ourselves. We brainstormed many ideas and narrowed them down to ten, from which we eventually decided on these six.