Miss Walker, Miss Mitchell and Mr Lowe

Our class crew is Sirius and we learnt that our star is part of the Canis Major. Our Star is know as the 'dog star' the classroom door is now full of dogs we have coloured and facts about our star. 

TERM 1

In our class this term our Book Study focus is The Boy in The Striped Pyjamas, we are going to be making predictions about the text before reading it together. As we read we will be exploring the different characters and their traits. We are also going to make comparisons and summaries throughout the text too.

This ties in nicely to our history topic of WWI and WW2 and allows us to explore and investigate the history behind the book making connections with life in WW2.

Our Maths topic is a number focused topic where we will be recapping and developing our understanding of place value, comparing and ordering number, rounding, prime numbers, multiples, common factors. Developing our awareness of number to build on in later topics.

In Science we will be looking at states of matter, thinking about solids liquids and gases as the Particle Model. As well as change of states, density and diffusion.

In our other non-core subjects, we will be developing and understanding of our world, as in geography our focus is River, Religious Studies is Judaism and in Computing we will be looking at coding.

Our French lessons will focus on the basics of how to meet and greet others and exploring our classroom environment. 

TERM 2 

Next term we are starting our new topic with the main focus being SPACE. 

We are going to be finding out all about space during our science lessons and what makes our planet ours. We are then going to be using this knowledge during our English lessons along with learning about Poetry to write space poems. Hopefully we will be able to use persuasive writing skills to convince a publisher to publish our poems into a real book of poems. 

This links in to our geography we are going to be exploring the structure of our Earth and its atmosphere as well as how humans can have an impact on the Earth's atmosphere. 

Our music lessons will also have a space exploring the music of space. 

In Maths we will be building on our place value knowledge and operations exploring further indices as well as applying this when using algebra,

In our other non core subject we will be looking at a range of topics, In citizenship we will be looking at the Government and how this has developed over time. In computing we will be developing our computer skills and looking at creative commons. We will also have our regular PE sessions on a Monday focused on the specific sport of Trampolining this term but also developing team work and personal resilience. We will also be carrying on working through our French topics developing the basics of French to interact and have conversations in French. 

This term Mr Gornall will move onto a Design Technology topic which means the pupils will be gaining lots of new skills in the workshop. 

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