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My home

The unit starts with learning how to say if we live in a house or an apartment and 10 nouns and their appropriate indefinite articles/determiners for rooms of the house via a variety of speaking, listening, reading and written tasks (using a series of gap fills, word puzzles, crosswords, word searches and true/false activities). Leading towards a final oral presentation and/or extended piece of writing detailing where I live and what there is or is not in terms of rooms, at home. Revisiting and reusing previously learnt language.

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In the first half term, children will use desktop publishing software and consider careful choices of font size, colour and type to edit and improve premade documents. This will lead to making their own template for a magazine front cover.

After half term, children will develop their understanding of what a branching database is and how to create one. They will gain an understanding of what attributes are and how to use them to sort groups of objects by using yes/no questions. During the unit, children will  create physical and on-screen branching databases.

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Following our ‘Go with the Flow’ topic, children will learn about a local artist called Lyz Gardner. Much of her work has been inspired by places within East Anglia, including Wicken Fen. Children will study Lyz’s work before being taught a range of oil pastel techniques. They will then use the techniques taught to create their own masterpieces in the same style as Lyz.

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In music we will look at learning to play the ukulele both chords and tunes. This will develop simple music reading skills too. We will attempt some pieces altogether as a class and some in small groups. We will also be continuing to develop our singing, building on the excellent KS2 Carol service. Learning to sing music for the Easter service in a range of styles.

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As a link with our previous topic, when we learnt about the Bronze Age, children will be designing, making and evaluating their own Bronze Age style brooches. These will be created using simple sewing techniques, which will be taught and demonstrated to the children prior to being attempted.

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Our first RE unit of the new year is a Hinduism unit where we will be working to answer the question ‘Why does a Hindu want to collect good karma?’ Children will be encouraged to explore why Karma is important to Hindus and will learn about this through Hindu stories and learning about daily life and community action for Hindus, both as individuals and within their communities.

During the second half term, children will be learning about Sikhism and how Sikhs believe that Gurus lead them from darkness into light. They will begin to learn about Guru Nanak and Sikh holy texts in order to support them with our key question ‘How does the teaching of the gurus move Sikhs from dark to light?’

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In P.E this half term the children will be doing tag rugby outside. In this unit pupils develop their understanding of the attacking and defending principles of invasion games. In all games activities, pupils have to think about how they use skills, strategies and tactics to outwit the opposition.

Their indoor P.E will be OAA. OAA (outdoor adventurous activities) allows pupils to develop problem solving skills through a range of challenges. Pupils work independently, as a pair and in a small group to plan, explore, solve, reflect and improve on strategies.

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This term, our topic is titled ‘Go With The Flow’. To begin with, children will learn how to identify rivers and their courses in an atlas, focussing on major UK rivers. They will then be taught about the 3 sections of a river (upper course, middle course and lower course) before making a river model and then studying each section and its features in more detail. The unit will be completed by learning about what the local area was like before and after the fens were drained.

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Over the first half term we will learn about light, reflections and shadows. We will learn about different sources of light, and that we need light to see. The children will work scientifically and collaboratively to investigate reflective materials, in the context of designing a new book bag. They will work in a hands on way to play a range of mirror games, finding out more about reflective surfaces. Furthermore, they will learn that the sun’s light can be dangerous, and will create an advert for a pair of sunglasses or a sun hat that they have designed. The children will have chance to test which objects are opaque in an exciting investigation to design the most effective curtains, and will find out how shadows change when the distance between the object and light source changes. They will develop their scientific enquiry skills, making observations, predictions and conclusions.

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We are starting the term with shape poetry around the theme of water.

We will then move onto recounts and we will be recounting a journey from the perspective of a water droplet using the book Rhythm of the Rain as our stimulus.

Towards the end of the half term, we will be using our Destination Reader text as a stimulus to write a fable with an enviromental theme.

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We are starting the term with Division. We will start by learning what division is; how to group and share objects before moving to the more abstract concept of written methods to divide.

This will lead us onto fractions. During this topic we will learn to find fractions of quantities; find equivalent fractions as well as add and subtract fractions with the same denominator.

After half term we will learn about decimals, which will link with both fractions and our topic of money. During this, we will be using previously learnt skills such as adding and subtracting.

Our final topic will be Time. We hope to really focus on how to tell the time on both analogue ad digital clocks. We will then look at solving problems involving time.

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At the start of term we will be learning effective learning behaviours for reading including active listening and supporting others, discussion and explain and taking responsibility for our own learning.

The song of the Dolphin Boy by Elizabeth Laird will be our shared destination reader book. Finn has always been different, and in the tiny fishing village of Stromhead he sticks out like a sore thumb. Always told to keep away from the water, he's felt that something was missing until one day he dives in and finds that, swimming with the dolphins, he feels completely at home.

A moving adventure about the impact of plastic pollution on our seas, and the campaigning power of friendship from the award-winning Elizabeth Laird, illustrated by Peter Bailey.