This term we will be writing our own stories using the text ‘Adventure at Sandy Cove’, a Talk 4 Writing story. We will also be continuing with comprehension of texts and learning different spelling patterns, punctuation and grammar in revision for SATs.
Our class text this term will be ‘The Last Wild’ by Piers Torday. It is set in the future and follows a boy called Kester who is able to communicate with animals and journeys to save them from
a deadly disease.
In science, we will be looking at the topic of electricity, which will help us to create circuits and develop our knowledge of symbols used as well as investigate the brightness of bulbs and volume of buzzers with the number of cells in the circuit.
In DT we will be exploring mechanical systems and will be designing and making a vehicle with gears or pulleys for our buddies to try out!
In maths, we will be learning about converting units and then finding the area, perimeter and volume of shapes.
In ICT we will be looking at text adventures, creating our own digital adventure journeys which can be played by our peers.
In RE, we will be learning about the enquiry question: What difference does the resurrection make to Christians? The children will be continuing to develop respect and inquisitiveness of other faiths and traditions.
Our school value this term is Respect and we will be discussing this in whole school and key stage worships.
In PE, our unit will be gymnastics – we will be learning how to use variations in level, direction and pathway, and how to combine and link actions on apparatus when developing sequences. We will also be developing performance skills and working collaboratively in larger groups.
In French, we will be continuing to practise our skills of speaking and listening and developing our vocabulary around the topic of the habitats.