Students will work three x a week with myself and with follow up mathsbuddy activities to develop skills that will include;

Number Strategies AO1:
Use simple additive strategies with whole numbers and fractions.
Number Knowledge AO1:
Know forward and backward counting sequences with whole numbers to at least 1000.
Number Strategies AO1:
Use a range of additive and simple multiplicative strategies with whole numbers and fractions
Number Knowledge AO1:
Know basic multiplication and division facts.

In workshops, students will create planned reports for creating reports that respond to their learning about Climate Change and ways they can impact the world positively.

They will look at historical reasons for climate change and the science beyond this event/events.

Students will use independent reading skills, where they apply the strategies they have learned. They will read a self-chosen novel in EPIC books and each week work on three responses to this novel.

Through these strategies, students will use level 4 skills to:

Select and use a range of processing and comprehension strategies; re-checking, re-reading, predicting cross-text meaning, and inferring.
Integrate information and prior knowledge with developing confidence.
Identify main and subsidiary ideas making connections in texts.

We will focus on one text in depth three times a week.
The LA will read with the children and support the modelling of decoding and comprehension strategies.
Students also use independent reading skills, where they apply the strategies they have learned over the week.
Guided reading sessions will use the Sharp Reading strategy to read aloud together and for students to individually share comprehension and then one of four follow up strategies:
visualization, links to prior learning, links to text, predictions.

We will focus on one text three times week in depth to support learning from structured lit workshops.
I will read to the children and model decoding and comprehension strategies.
We will read together out loud and discuss the text.
Finally, students will end the week with independent reading, where they apply the strategies they have learned over the week.

This term we will be focussing on using our SDL very constructively so that we all have something to present at the end-of-term CoL.

We will use a planning and reflection process for every SDL session that we have - we will learn how to plan and reflect in a detailed and specific way so that we can establish next steps and evaluate our progress. However, this will be a quick process so that we can focus on the doing not the planning/reflecting.

For term four we are exploring Characters for writing.
We will complete character studies and consider how authors develop a character in their stories.
We will explore simile, hyperbole, personification and alliteration as ways to build our characters in our own writing.
We will develop our own characters based around members of the homebase.
We will use interview questions to build the back story of our characters.

We are working on developing our comprehension as we are all proficient at reading but don't always understand what we've read.

We are using the SRA reading laboratory resources which include a passage to read as well as questions to answer.

We work on this in one of two LA-led groups, on Tuesdays and Thursdays.

Explore the SRA reading lab here: https://www.mheducation.com.au/schools/literacy/reading-laboratory

This term we will continue working with our Structured Literacy programme practising phonological awareness and developing our skills in reading, spelling, punctuation, handwriting and writing.

We will do 3 half hour lessons per week using a variety of formal Structured Literacy resources and materials to meet our group's individual needs.

We have additional support from our Structured Literacy experts Charis and Caroline the RTLit.

We are working at approximately stage 7 of the Little Learners Love Literacy® Sequence.

We will be focussing on The Code for Structured Literacy, working at year 5/6.

We will also be doing quick writes from Sheena Cameron's The Writing Book in order to support our engagement with and quantity of writing.

We will consider elements of writing such as:
Punctuation (capital letters, Full stops, Commas, Quotation marks, Question marks, paragraphs brackets and semicolon).
Sentence structure
Parts of Speech - Verbs, Adverbs, Nouns, Adjectives
Spelling and editing