Class Teacher - Mrs Partington

Terms 5 & 6 

Our enquiry is: How do cities grow?

Our big themes are Function, Humankind & Relationships.

This term, the children will be exploring the big question: “How do cities grow?” To help us investigate this, we will work through a series of mini-enquiries: What is a city? Who were the better engineers? What difference does the Nile make? Who lived there? What isn’t the same? How do you keep a plant alive? Through talk, looking at artefacts and maps and through an Ancient Egyptian workshop, children will develop skills as historians and geographers to answer the mini-enquiry questions. The final mini-enquiry question will be answered through our Science unit on Plants.

Phonics

Some children in our class follow the Read Write Inc. phonics programme. Children are assessed regularly and work in groups that closely match the sounds that they need to learn.

Families can support children at home by reading the books that are sent home multiple times across the week so that the children become fluent story-tellers. Children will also have a QR code for the current book that they are reading, which will be given to them on a Friday.

English 

Those children who have completed the RWI programme will be doing daily handwriting, first ensuring that letter formation is accurate and then beginning to join when children are ready. This term’s reading lessons are based on the book ‘The boy who grew dragons’ by Andy Shepherd. These lessons will develop children’s retrieval skills and help them to understand new vocabulary. 

All children’s writing lessons will be based upon the books ‘Fadya and the song of the river’ and ‘Marcy and the riddle of the sphinx’ . These lessons will explore literary techniques as well as grammar, and will provide opportunities to create fiction and non-fiction pieces of work. The class will be reading  as our class text. 

Maths

Across the term, the children will develop themselves as mathematicians. We will work on fractions and measures (money, length, time, weight and  temperature). The children will have daily mastering number lessons. Families can support at home by encouraging children to complete short sessions on either Numbots or TTRockstars.

R.E

In R.E, we are thinking about ‘How do some people talk to God’ and ‘Where do some people talk to God’. The first unit will focus on prayer – how/when and why people pray. The second unit focusses on the special buildings where people go to talk to God.

PSHE

This term’s first unit focusses on keeping safe. We will learn about what to do in emergencies, first aid and how to keep ourselves safe out and about. We will also learn about cyberbullying and keeping safe online.

PE

Our P.E. days are Tuesdays and Wednesdays.
The first term we will be focusing on the Health and fitness cog - athletics, focusing on the skills – agility, ball chasing and static balance. Next term the focus will be physical cog - tag rugby focusing on the skills – agility, reaction and response and static balance (floor work).

Science

This term our Science unit is plants. We will be answering the mini enquiries

What is a plant?

What do you see when plants grow?

What do plants need to grow?

How does water move in a plant?

What are flowers for?

Each lesson, children will focus on one of the Working Scientifically Strands observe & measure, evaluate, record, ask & answer questions, set up enquiries or interpret and report.

 

Music

This term our music unit is called ‘Myths and legends’ and focusses on the structure of music.

 

DT

This term the skill we will be focusing on is sewing and we will be making Egyptian collars. Children will learn how to thread a needle, do a running stitch and attached beads and other embellishments to their collar.

 

Art

In Art the skill is craft and design and we will be designing and making Egyptian scrolls. Children will look at examples of Egyptian art and will test out drawing some of the symbols, lines and animals. They will then design and make their own scroll.

Computing This term, our Computing curriculum will cover online safety and digital wellbeing, where students will learn to recognise upsetting online situations and develop strategies for dealing with them. We will also learn about programming using Scratch and computer systems and networks-emailing.   Home Learning For home learning, children should be doing the following every week:  Reading as often as possible - ideally 10 minutes daily. Please make a note of which book and which pages your child has read (older children can do this themselves) Practising times tables on TT Rockstars (go into Garage to practise at the right level)  Spelling Shed - Complete spelling games and complete the assignment (specific words) set by Miss Smith  Children have logins for the websites above in their reading records. Please let Miss Smith know if the children need another copy of their log-in details.

 

Home Learning

For home learning, children should be doing the following every week: 

• Reading as often as possible – ideally 5 times a week. Please make a note of which book and which pages your child has read (older children can do this themselves)
• Practising times tables on TT Rockstars (go into Garage to practise at the right level) 
• Spelling Shed - Complete spelling games and complete the assignment (specific words) set by Miss Smith 

Children have logins for the websites above in their reading records. Please let Mrs Partington know if the children need another copy of their log-in details.