Terms 5 and 6

Please find below the summer term curriculum overview:

Summer term knowledge overview

English

The children will be using the following books to support their writing during English. They will be writing to discuss, inform and entertain.

Maths

Year 4 and Year 5

This term the year 4’s and 5’s are learning about decimal fractions, converting measurements, factors, multiples and prime numbers, areas, scaling and time/conversion.

Year 6

This term the year 6’s will be learning, ratio and proportion and the order of operations, mean and average. They will then be using a revision scheme to revisit previous learning in readiness for the upcoming KS2 SATs. After completing the KS2 SATs the children will be learning mathematical skills to support the start of their education in secondary school.

Term 4

Maths- During this term children will be learning about fractions, they will learn to understand the whole, add, subtract, compare, simplify and multiply fractions.

English- This term the children will be writing to inform and entertain. They will be writing a Non-Chronological Report and a descriptive piece of writing which will be about the River Amazon.

Science- The children will continue to be learning about light.

Enquiry- During this term the children will be answering the questions’:

• Why does the Earth shake?
• Why does it flood?
• How is man more dangerous than nature?
• Why are the three p’s important? (predict, prevent, prepare)

P.E- This term P.E lessons will be on Tuesday’s and Friday’s.

Term 3

TERM 3 WEEK 6

This week is  Children’s Mental Health Week (5th-11th February), the theme this year is ‘My Voice Matters’. Its aim is to create mental health awareness that empowers, equips and gives a voice to all children and young people in the UK. The children will have opportunities throughout the week for various discussions and  activities to support this. If you would like to find out more and take part at home you can visit:

https://www.childrensmentalhealthweek.org.uk/

Spelling- This week’s spelling focuses on words ending in ‘ly’, the children will be able to access these spellings on spelling shed.

This week in English we will writing to persuade using the story ‘Journey’ by Aaron Becker. The children will be continuing to develop their reading comprehension skills using our core text ‘The Firework Maker’s Daughter’.

This week in maths the children will be learning decimal fractions.

Our weekly reading cafe will be on Friday.

The children have a swimming lesson on Tuesday.

TERM 3 WEEK 5

Spelling- This week’s spelling focuses on words ending in ‘al and ‘le, the children will be able to access these spellings on spelling shed.

This week in English we will be looking at the story ‘Journey’ by Aaron Becker. The children will be writing a setting description using figurative language techniques.

This week in maths we will be learning short multiplication and short division.

Our weekly reading cafe will be on Thursday.

The children have a swimming lesson on Tuesday.

TERM 3 WEEK 4

Spelling- This week’s spelling focus is ‘diagraph ‘ei’ and tetragraph ‘eigh”, the children will be able to access these spellings on spelling shed.

This week in English we will be looking at the story ‘Journey’ by Aaron Becker. The children will be writing a newspaper report as part of a range of writing techniques for this core text.

This week in maths the children will be learning to multiply and divide by 10, 100 and 1000.

Our weekly reading cafe will be on Wednesday.

The children have a swimming lesson on Tuesday.

TERM 3 WEEK 3

Spelling- This week’s spelling focus is ‘digraph ‘ai’ and tetragraph ‘aigh”, the children will be able to access these spellings on spelling shed.

This week in English the children will be writing their own versions of the poem ‘The River’ by Valerie Bloom. They will be using personification, onomatopoeias, similes and metaphors as part of their figurative language techniques.

This week in maths we will be learning to multiply and divide.

Our weekly reading cafe will be on Tuesday.

The children will be starting their swimming lessons this week on Tuesday.

TERM 3 WEEK 2

Spelling- This week’s spelling focus is ‘apostrophes for contraction and apostrophes for possession’, the children will be able to access these spellings on spelling shed.

This week in English we will be identifying features of poetry. The children will be using figurative language techniques to plan a poem inspired by ‘The River’ by Valerie Bloom.

Our weekly reading cafe will be on Monday.

TERM 3 WEEK 1

Spelling- This week’s spelling focus is ‘apostrophes for contraction’, the children will be able to access these spellings on spelling shed.

There is no reading cafe this week.

Term 2

Term 2 Week 4

Spelling- This week’s spelling focus is ‘suffixes -ment and -ness’, the children will be able to access these spellings on spelling shed.

Our weekly reading café will be on Friday afternoon this week.

Term 2 Week 3

This week was ‘Anti- Bullying Week’ we have been learning lots about what bullying is and how we can help ourselves and others to be able to seek the support and guidance that may be needed. The children have been sharing their advice, thoughts and feelings throughout the week.

On Wednesday it was a pleasure for us to be part of ‘Positive Noticing Day’. The children each wrote on a luggage tag and identified the positive attributes of their classmates. The children wrote about how this made them feel- ‘happy, confident, loved, noticed, respected’ to name just a few. What a lovely experience with a room full of smiles.

We also joined a live webinar led by Picture News which was focused on British values and Protected Characteristics for KS2.