Topic

World War Two

We will be exploring the causes of World War Two and the impact it had. The children will focus particularly on life for children through evacuation and the experience of The Blitz. They will also sensitively explore The Holocaust and what they can learn from this, particularly focused on being tolerant of each other.

English

Alma and World War Two

After watching Alma, the children will be learning how to write to build suspense and use techniques that will build up mystery and intrigue!  We will be exploring poetry from World War 1 and 2 and will be focusing on emotive writing through Aidan Gibbons’ The Piano.  When reading, we will be sharing extracts from Rose Blanche and Goodnight Mister Tom – both supporting our learning about World War Two.

Maths

Four Operations, Fractions and Shape and Space

For this term the main focus will be on developing their understanding of fractions – simplifying them and using this to help with adding and subtracting fractions. They will also continue to explore the four operations and applying them in a variety of context.

Science

Animals Including Humans

The aim of this topic is to develop the children’s understanding of the human body. The focus will be on knowing key parts of the body, understanding how the heart works, being aware of the impact lifestyles can have on the body (including discussing drugs) and understanding how the blood works.

RE

Christianity: Christmas

During this unit the children will explore the key question – how significant is it that Mary was Jesus’ mother? They will develop their understanding of Mary herself and the belief for Christians that Jesus is God incarnate. They will also consider how celebrations are used within different cultures.

PE

Gymnastics and Tag Rugby

PE days will be Monday (outside) and Thursday (inside). PE kits should be in every day and must include the coloured t-shirt for their house. They should also have a change of jumper to ensure that they are not wearing their school jumper for PE.

Earrings must be removed for PE lessons. If they are unable to remove them, they will not be able to participate in the lesson for safety reasons.

If for any reason your child cannot participate in PE, please let us know with a note in their contact book.

PSHE/SMSC

Society and Anti-bullying

DT

Food – Vegetable Pies

The children will consider how they can prepare food safely and hygienically. They will also think about how combining ingredients can be effective. They will apply this understanding to making their own World War Two-style vegetable pies.

Music

Singing

The children will be learning to sing songs from the World War – they will think about how they can be tuneful and explore how singing in parts can be achieved. They will have the opportunity to listen to a variety of songs. They may like to continue this exploration at home.

Spanish

Clothes, Colours and Shops

Using their developing Spanish, the children will explore how to describe the clothes they are wearing, including using the different colour words. They will then begin to explore conversations that may be had while in a shop. Ask them to share their new language skills with you at home.

Topic

Our country; our land! When the developers come

We will be exploring how Britain is divided in to counties and then concentrating on land use around Barming. The children will have the opportunity to use Ordnance Survey maps to consider areas that would be suitable for development. This will be to replace the suggestion that developers could use the school field (an imaginary scenario to get them inspired to choose better options).

English

Tour Guide and Wonder

During these topics we will be developing children’s spelling strategies and helping them to select more adventurous vocabulary using a thesaurus to support. They will consider modal verbs and ensuring the sentence is in the correct tense throughout. They will also continue to develop their use of a comma to ensure clarity in their sentences

Maths

Place value & four operations of number

Children will explore how to read, write, order and compare numbers to ten million (practising this at home will really help them to develop their confidence). They will also become more confident at rounding digits to varying levels of accuracy and counting across zero – using negative numbers. They will also develop their knowledge of efficient methods for all four operations. The more confident they become with these the easier they will find it to apply their skills throughout the year.

Science

Electricity

The aim of this topic is to develop the children’s confidence at building circuits. They will start to understand the impact of voltage and consider how best to build circuits to ensure they are efficient.

RE

Sikhism: Belief into Action

During this unit the children will explore key beliefs of Sikhs and consider the impact these have on their lives.

PE

Dance and netball

PE days will be Monday (outside) and Thursday (inside). PE kits should be in every day and must include the coloured t-shirt for their house. They should also have a change of jumper to ensure that they are not wearing their school jumper for PE. Earrings must be removed for PE lessons. If they are unable to remove them, they will not be able to participate in the lesson for safety reasons. If for any reason your child cannot participate in PE, please let us know with a note in their contact book.

PSHE/SMSC

Democracy & moral values

This unit will help children explore how democracy works and why it is important. They will also then consider moral values and the impact they may have on the choices they make during their lives.

DT

Marketing

The children will consider market research and use this to inform their design plans. They will also consider cultural and society needs within their designs. This will be related to the research they carry out for new developments

Music

Rhythm

The children will explore how rhythms are used and how the use of Morse code can create an interesting rhythm. They will listen to the Inspector Morse theme tune and use this to help their own compositions. They will also explore which instruments will be best to make the dots and dashes.

Spanish

Body Parts and Feeling ill

Using their developing Spanish, the children will explore how to describe Body Parts and explain when they are feeling ill. Ask them to share their new language skills with you at home.