Spring Term

Focus Texts:

The Skies Above My Eyes and Stormbreaker

English:

We will use the knowledge we have learned about space, along with inspiration from our two focus texts to produce the following written pieces:

• A Newspaper report about the 1969 Moon landing.
• A balanced argument.
• A diary entry of Alex Rider.
• A fantasy story.

Maths: 

This term we will be learning about multiplication and division, fractions, decimals, percentages, perimeter and area.

Science:

We will be learning about Space and animals this term. This includes the following:

• Describing the movement of the planets in relation to the Sun.
• Describing the Sun, Earth and Moon.
• Understand how Earth's rotation leads to day and night.
• The history of space travel.
• Describing the changes as humans develop into old age. 

Georgraphy:

This term, the children will be learning about Europe, North America and South America, and Volcanoes and Earthquakes. 

RE:

There will be two topics covered in RE in Spring term: Easter, and Religionand the Individual. We will be looking at the following key questions to guide our learning.

• What is expected of a person in following a religion or belief?
• How significant is it for Christians to believe that God intended Jesus to die?

Art:

The artists we will focus on in Spring Term will be Peter Thorpe and Harold Cohen. We will produce a space themed abstract art and piece of digital art using a computer program.

DT:

We will be learning about mechanisms in DT this term by constructing a rocket.

Computing:

This term we will be learning about programming and flat file databases.

PE:

Children will learning skills in Tennis and Rugby this term.

Music: 

With our specialist music teachers, the children will continue to develop skills on different instrument and play melodies on a variety of instruments. 

PSHE:

This term, we will be earning about how to deal with peer pressure, the risks of smoking, inclusion and acceptance.