Summer 1

This half term, we will be learning ...

Collective Worship

Our values are Respect, Love, Forgiveness, Service, Friendship and Peace. These values underpin our curriculum.

Throughout this half term, we are learning about what each value means and how we can promote each one through our daily actions to make a positive contribution to our school and the wider community. We are reading, listening to and responding to bible stories, which teach Christians about the importance of our values in daily life.

English

In English, we will be looking at a text called ‘The Journey’ to help us write our own refugee narrative. Within this unit, we will be focussing on how to effectively include new vocabulary, including personification. In addition to this, we will be learning to write a diary in the first person to convery emotion. 

Maths

In Maths, we will be learning the following: 

• Perimeter of rectangles and rectilinear shapes
• Area of rectangles and rectilinear shapes
• Investigating area and perimeter
• Solving measures and money problems 
• Shape and symmetry

Science

In Science we are learning about 'States of Matter'. Within this unit we will be learning about solids, liquids and gases as well as the water cycle. 

Religious Education

This half term, we are learning about 'Which rules should we follow?' and we will be thinking about the following key questions:

• What are rules?
• Why do we have rules?
• Who makes the rules?
• Who keeps the rules?
• Is there a difference between rules and laws?
• Who makes the law?
• What would happen if there were no rules/laws?
• Are the ten commandments still as relevant today? Why? Why not?
• Why did Jesus bring a new commandment?
• Why do religions have rules?

Through our RE lessons, we will be deepening our understanding of the faiths of Christianity, Judaism, Sikhism, Hinduism and Islam.

Geography

In our geography unit for this half term, we will be completing a river study. For this we will be going on a trip to investigate the parts of river, collecting data and information as we go along. 

PSHE

This half term in PSHE, we will be learning about health and wellbeing.

PE

In our PE lessons we will be learning how to play netball, improving our throwing, aiming and catching skills. 

Other subjects we will explore this half term are; Music, Computing and French.