September 2025

Dear Parent/Carer,                                                                                                     

Welcome back to the start of a new school year at Danygraig (The 150th year!!) I hope you have had a wonderful Summer break and are ready for an exciting new term! Please find below details of the work that your child’s class will be doing during this term. There are  also suggested ways in which you can help your child at home. If you have any queries or questions, please do not hesitate to get in contact

Thank you for your continued support,

Mr D. Field

Our topic this term is: ‘Stargazers’.

The children will be discovering the awe and wonder of the solar system. The children will have opportunities to decide on their learning through pupil lead questioning. They could be working on topics in relation to our ‘Stargazers’ topic such as:

• How to survive and thrive in a different environment on an unknown planet.
• Investigate the requirements and skills needed to be a NASA astronaut.
• Experience and explore the vast size of planets and galaxies in our solar system through our ‘Wonder Dome’ topic launch

In maths we will be looking at: number and place value, written addition and subtraction, problem solving, reasoning and algebra, mental addition and subtraction, decimals, percentages and their equivalence to fractions, problem solving, reasoning and algebra, mental multiplication and division, measurement, mental multiplication and division, fractions, ratio and proportion, geometry, statistics, properties of shapes, worded problem solving and reasoning.

Dojo messages and information will continue this year in the class group. Letters will be sent for those who have not joined yet for you to join our class community. Please follow the instructions to download and join our class community through the app. This is a simple and effective way of getting in touch, receiving information and seeing how your son/daughter is getting on through dojo points and posted videos.

 

Ways in which you can help at home:

• Please listen to your child reading at home every night (your child will have reading book and new reading record diary for you to make comments soon).
• Visit the local library to choose books relevant to topics being studied at school.
• Discuss and talk through your child’s homework, helping them with strategies and methods to solve it independently.
• Talk to your child about the range of geographical features in their locality & globally.
• Help your children by listening to them read, practice their times tables through TT Rockstars and help them to problem solve.