
The class teacher is Miss Myles.
This term we have lots of exciting new learning to look forward to. In English we will be reading The Mermaid of Zennor, Frindleswylde and Shackleton’s Journey. During our Guided reading sessions, we will be exploring Annie Lumsden (the girl from the sea) and The Story of the Titanic

In Maths we will be exploring and mastering place value, addition and subtraction, multiplication and division, worded problems and graphs.

In the afternoons we will be exploring what life is like in the Alps in our Geography sessions. During our Art sessions, we will be exploring how we can take our drawings to prints and looking at tone and materials through Art. We will be expanding our French knowledge by talking about ourselves in more detail; describing what we look like and the clothes we wear. In RE we will be focusing in on Christianity and Hinduism. In our DT sessions we will be looking at how torches are made and making our own. In PE we will be focusing on dance, boccia, swimming and dodgeball. We will be exploring search engines and programming in Computing. Finally, in History we will be looking at why the docks were so important to Liverpool.

For our French the Year 5 children will work with Mrs Kelly (exploring where French is spoken and body parts in French), whilst the year 4 children will work with myself
.

In Science the Year 4 children will work with myself, whilst the year 5 children work with Miss Ward (working on materials). During Maths the Year 5 children will work with myself, whilst the Year 4 children work with Miss Ward
Homework will be set on Fridays and is due in the following Wednesday.
Reading books will be changed and sent home every Friday. We expect children to read this at least three times a week and for their reading record to be signed by someone at home.
Our PE days are Monday and Wednesday this term.
Please click on the link below to see the overview for this year.
Malala class overiew 2025-2026
Widnes Academy
Cholmondeley Street
Widnes
WA8 0EL
Tel: 0151 424 2799
Email: school@widnesacademy.co.uk