Summer 2

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 ‘Manfish’ to help us write our own invention narrative, we will be focussing on our use of fronted adverbials and how to use these effectively within our writing. Also be learning how to write a non-fiction text. This will be a biography, where we will be learning how to write in a more formal tone.

Maths

In Maths, we are learning about the following topics: 

• Shape

   - Lines of symmetry

• Position & Direction

   -Describe and plot using coordinates

   -Describe translations

• Reasoning with Patterns & Sequences

   -Roman numerals up to 100

   -Place value of other number systems

   -Number sequences and patterns

• 3D Shape

   -Use understanding of 3-D shapes

   -Identify 3-D shapes from 2-D representations

Science

In Science we will be learning about living things and their habitats and the seven life conditions needed all living things need to stay alive.  

Religious Education

This half term, we are learning about 'what is prayer?' and we will be thinking about the following key questions:

• What is prayer?

• How do people pray?

• When do people pray?

• Why do people pray?

• Where do people pray?

• How do people of world faiths pray?

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

History

In our History unit for this half term, we will be learning about the history of Local Area (Blackburn).

DT

In DT, we will be learning about shell and frame structures and exploring how we can strengthen them to support items being dropped from height.

PSHE

This half term in PSHE, we will be continuing to learn about our health and wellbeing.

PE

In our PE lessons, we will be developing our fielding and striking skills in cricket.

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