Please click on the links to access resources for the topics you are learning this half term.

	Plant Life Cycle
	Rivers
	Map Skills
	Mountains
	Musical Literacy

At St Thomas’ we value the link between home and school and we recognise parental support is vital to a child’s progress and education. This year, we have developed how our children will complete home learning tasks, using evidence informed guidance from the Education Endowment Fund. Below are a range of age-appropriate ways that you can help support your child’s learning from home, complimenting their classroom work and ensuring accelerated progress. Please encourage your child to engage in these tasks, little and often, and let us know how they have done by writing in your child’s planner. Parental support for homework can promote the self-regulation in children necessary to achieve academic goals including goal-setting, planning, perseverance, and the management of time, materials, attentiveness, and emotions. There are learning opportunities all around us so let us embrace them and develop confident, well-rounded young people, who can flourish in the modern world.

• Write 5 to 10 facts about your current topic. Present your work creatively!
• Write a postcard from a real or imaginary place.
• Write instructions for how to play your favourite game.
• Write a short character description of someone from a book you’re reading.
• Write a thank-you note or message to someone who helps you.

• Help with a household job and talk about why it’s important.
• Learn and practise a short mindfulness or breathing activity.
• Draw or write about something that makes you feel happy or proud.
• Plan a healthy meal and explain why it is good for your body.

On Tuesdays, we will continue our swimming lessons with OCL Active. Our final swimming lesson is 7^th July 2026. On Fridays, we will be learning how to play cricket in our striking and fielding topic. The children will developing their running, jumping, throwing and catching as well as sport-specific batting, bowling and fielding techniques.

Swimming with School Guidelines