Welcome to Nicola Penfold Class:

Our Team: Miss Witcomb (Class Teacher) and Mrs Ducker (TA)

This year will be full of excitement and new experiences, where the children are encouraged to think critically, collaborate with their peers, and take on more responsibility, preparing them for the challenges of Year 6.

Below you will find some helpful documents and information about what your child is learning.

 

Who is Nicola Penfold?

Nicola Penfold

Nicola Penfold was born in Billinge and grew up in Doncaster. She studied English at St John’s College, Cambridge. Nicola’s worked in a reference library and for a health charity, but being a writer was always the job she wanted most.

Nicola writes in a shed at the bottom of her garden. She lives in North London, with her husband, children and cats, and escapes when she can to wilder corners of the UK for adventures.

Books she has written:

Areas of Learning: 

Maths: Statistics, Place Value within 1,00,000 and Addition and Subtraction.

English: Persuasive Letter, diary entry.

Reading: Developing our Rainbow Reading skills and understanding (Copy Cat, Authors Craft, Text Detective and Judge and Jury question types).

RE: Understanding Christianity

Science: Forces

RSHE: Being Me in My World.

Topic: The Americas

Here is our sticky knowledge for this topic:

Below are our spellings, KIRF and Knowledge Organisers for the term.