Half term information Autumn 1 2025

This half term, we have immersed ourselves in different aspects of Roman life. We have learnt about the Roman invasion of Britain, life in the Roman Army, and the legacy the Romans left behind. The children wrote fantastic Roman myths, letters and information texts, and made authentic Roman shields and swords for our very own Roman Wow day, which culminated in a battle using traditional Roman techniques of marching and the turtle!

In Maths we have covered place value, rounding and addition and subtraction. We have especially enjoyed practising our times tables on Times Tables Tuesday.

Our Science learning has been based around the different states of matter – solids, liquids and gases. We have carried out lots of investigations, including finding the melting point of different substances and the children loved creating their own water cycle in a bag, where they could see how the water evaporated into vapour and then condensed back into water.

The children have loved learning ball skills (football) during outside PE and have been developing their balance skills during gymnastics lessons inside, which resulted in the performance of routines they put together in groups.

Useful website links to continue learning at home:

 

www.topmarks.co.uk

 

https://www.whizz.com/ http://primaryhomeworkhelp.co.uk/Romans.html

 

https://www.museumoflondon.org.uk/museum-london

Children’s comments about their learning:

 

"I really liked Times Tables Tuesdays because it helped us learn and made maths fun." Adam

"I enjoyed science because we made water cycles with a bag." Ayanshi

"My highlight this half term was DT because I enjoyed making shields and swords for our Wow day." Bhavesh

"I enjoyed English because I like making stories and letters." Elif

"I really liked learning how to subtract 4 digit numbers in Maths." Kabir.

"I loved doing gymnastics in P.E, especially the balances." Emily

"I enjoyed designing and creating my Roman shield in DT. The battle on the WOW day was really fun." Aarul.