Autumn 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 Whale’ to help us write our own setting narrative, we will be focussing on our use of expanded noun phrases and how to use these effectively within our writing. Also be learning how to write a newspaper report. We will be learning how to use newspaper report vocabulary to write in a more formal tone/

Maths

In Maths, we are learning about the following topics: 

• Reasoning with Large Numbers

   - 4-digit place value

   -Read, write, represent, order and compare

   -Find 10, 100 or 1000 more or less

   -Round numbers to the nearest 10, 100 or 1000

• Addition & Subtraction

   -Select appropriate strategies to add and subtract

   -Illustrate and explain appropriate addition and subtraction strategies including      column method with regrouping

Science

In Science we will be focusing on ‘electricity’. We will be creating circuits and also considering Health and Safety aspects for electricity.  

Religious Education

This half term, we are learning about 'How do people of faith say thank you to God for the harvest?' and we will be thinking about the following key questions:

• Why do communities celebrate the harvest?
• Why do Christians celebrate Harvest Festival?
• What exactly is being celebrated at harvest?
• Who celebrates the harvest?
• How do communities around the world celebrate harvest?
• Why is the harvest celebrated by people with faith and those of no faith?
• What does the Harvest Festival, and being thankful mean to you?

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 learning what makes a ‘Global Citizen’ and why it is important. We will also be looking at the 17 Global Goals.

DT

In DT, we will be learning about ICT and electrical systems. We will be investigating how to make a circuit and exploring stable structures. This will support us to then make our own table lamp!

PSHE

This half term in PSHE, we will be learning about relationships within our families and friendships. 

PE

In our PE lessons, we will be learning how to play an invasion game- handball!

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