Thursday 4th September

Thursday 4th September 2025

Complete a Star Reader Assessment. Remember to read the questions carefully and try your best.

Thursday 4th September 2025

Grammar Warm-up

Do we know what conjunctions are?

What are their function in sentences?

Listen to these sentences. Can you identify the conjunction in each of them?

I have never liked heights so I didn’t go to the top.

Make a sandwich for lunch because we are having a picnic.

He shouted at me and I cried.

While you go shopping, I’m going to the cinema.

They were going to build a road but people didn’t want them to.

I’ll do it because I’m going there anyway.

LC: Listen to, read and discuss a range of non-chronological reports in different forms

Let's look at some children's magazines to explore what we like or dislike about each one.

1. Aquila magazine

2 National Geographic

3. The Week Junior

4. The Week Junior

5. National Geographic Little Kids

6. National Geographic Little Kids

7. What on Earth

8. What on Earth

9. What on Earth

Which one did you like better? Why?

What have the writers done to make the reader interested?

What have the writers done to make the information easy to understand?

04.09.25

LC: To be able to count in hundreds and twenty-fives.

In your talk partners discuss how many people there are altogether?

Remember that grouping the people in a uniform way would help with counting.

Remember that when we group numbers in tens, twenty-fives, fifties or hundreds, we need to count in steps of these numbers to get the total number given.

Thursday 4th September 2025

LC: Do we know who the Romans were and how they built their Empire?

In our History lessons this half term, we are going to be learning about Ancient Rome, the spread of the Roman Empire, its invasion of Britain and the impact of this.

First of all, let's explore some of our new vocabulary - talk with your talk partner about the words in bold. Have you heard any of them before? Do you know what they mean?

Who were the Romans and how did they build their Empire?

The Romans were a group of people who were able to build a huge empire by invading and conquering other lands and peoples.

The Romans in time

Chronology is the study of time, looking at when events happened and in what order.

You have learned about lots of different times in history. We can put these in chronological order on a timeline.

Remember:

BC stands for Before Christ and refers to any date before the year Christians believe Jesus was born. The Romans who introduced this calendar had no symbol for zero and the year that Jesus was born was called Year 1. We usually use BC when we are saying the dates.

AD stands for Anno Domini and is a medieval Latin phrase that means, ‘In the year of our Lord’. AD is used for dates after the point Christians believe Jesus was born. We do not usually say AD when we say dates after 1000 AD.