Language and Literacy

Your child will complete the following areas of Language and Literacy at their individual level:

Reading

- Developing skills of Literal, Inferential and Summarising using shared, guided and independent texts

- Novel: Stormbreaker

- Guided Reading texts including a range of fiction and non-fiction texts

- Accelerated Reader: Home Reading and Class Quizzing

Writing

- Grammar and Punctuation: apostrophes for possessions, connectives, speech marks

- Spelling: Common words, Homophones/near homophones, age, ph, al, ance, ment, ive, ous, ate, ei, ary, tion, ch

- Writing Genres: Biographical writing based on Harriet Tubman, autobiographical writing and Science Fiction writing

Talking and Listening

- Opportunities for discussion during all class sessions, including providing opinions and justifying them with evidence

- Drama: Easter Assembly

Mathematics and Numeracy

Your child will access the following areas of Maths at their own individual level:

Shape and Space

- Estimate measure, draw and label angles up to 360 degrees

- Use a protractor

- Describe properties of regular and irregular “d shapes in terms of sides, angles, symmetry and tessellation

- Use drawing software and a programmable language such as LOGO to construct 2D shapes.

Measures (length)

- Understand and use scale in the context of simple maps and drawings

- Appreciate the concept of scale to represent distances/lengths.

Measure (time)

- Understand and use the terms – decade, century and millennium

- Calculate durations of time

- Discuss different times in other countries

Sequences and Patterns

- Examine patterns and sequences in number to predict missing and subsequent terms

- Explore patterns and number sequences through spatial investigations

- Follow sets of instructions to generate number sequences

Problem solving

- number problems involving the RUCSAC method

- Money problems

- Number problems with decimals

- Roman numerals

- Data handling

The World Around Us

The World Around Us topic for the Spring Term is ‘Birds and Flight’.

During this topic we will be

- Investigating birds and migration and creating a game to highlight the dangers of migration

- Take part in the RSPB bird watch

- Researching birds of prey and creating a top trumps game

- Learn about flight in relation to plants

- Carrying out science experiments related to flight with paper aeroplanes, helicopters, parachutes, kites and rockets

- Exploring the different types of forces and the effect these have

Personal Development and Mutual Understanding

Through the LLT topic ‘Thinking and Feeling’, we will be learning about:

- Self awareness

- Being fit for the future

- Understanding of the local and wider community

‘Bee Safe’ programme which is an interactive learning experience to inform pupils how to stay safe and make the right decisions. Topics include internet safety, water safety, fire safety, road safety, farm safety, home safety and mental health safety and well-being.

Using ICT

We will be learning about:

- Scratch programming

- Making a website

The Arts

Music: 

Listening to and reflecting on orchestral music. Inventing their own musical motifs and structuring them into a piece of music. Performing as an ensemble and learning musical language.

Learning a musical instrument e.g. recorder, ukulele

Learning Easter songs for our Easter assembly.

Art and Design:

Using a variety of skills and media to create printed wallpapers, clay tiles, detailed sketches and models based on our unit Flight and linked to wildlife.

Drama:

Preparation for the Easter Assembly

Physical Education

Hockey and Badminton: developing hitting and receiving skills, body movement and fine/gross motor control through small sided Hockey and Badminton games

Gymnastics and dance: lessons taught by Healthy Kidz

Religious Education

Religion Education is provided via the Bible Time stories and activity booklets.