Wider Curriculum

In our Wider Curriculum lessons this term, we will be looking at the question ‘How have structures influenced our lives?’ and will have a focus on why shelters were important in World War Two. Our curriculum drivers will be History and DT and our curriculum enhancer will be Geography. 

Mathematics 

Our Maths topics this half term will be:
• Multiplication strategies for larger numbers and long multiplication.
• Division: dividing by two-digit divisors.
• Finding equivalent fractions and simplifying.
• Common denomination: more adding and subtracting.

Writing 

Our first unit this term will be a narrative, based on ‘Friend or Foe’ by Michael Morpurgo. Our second unit this term will be a newspaper article, also based on ‘Friend or Foe” by Michael Morpurgo. Our focus for this term will be on securing the use of direct and reported speech, as 
well as considering how speech can both reflect character as well as advancing the action.

Reading 

Our first Reading unit this term will be a continuation of ‘Rooftoppers’ by Catherine Rundell.
We will then be moving onto looking at ‘All Aboard the Empire Windrush’ by Jillian Powell. 
Through these texts, we will be developing our retrieval and inference skills, identifying themes within and across texts and developing our own personal reflections.

HRE 

In HRE, we will be working through our unit on ‘Ourselves, growing and change’. Children will learn:
• About the physical and emotional changes that happen when approaching and during puberty (including menstruation, key facts about the menstrual cycle and menstrual well-being, erections and wet dreams.)
• About the processes of reproduction and birth as part of the human life cycle; how babies are conceived and born (and that there are ways to prevent a baby being made); how babies need to be cared for.
• About where to get more information, help and advice about growing and changing, especially about puberty.
• About how hygiene routines change during the time of puberty, the importance of keeping clean and how to maintain personal hygiene.

This term in Computing, we will be focusing on websites. In this unit, we will learn about:
• What makes a good website?
• How would you layout your website?
• Copyright.
• How does it look?
• Think before you link!

In Gymnastics this term, we will be learning:
• To roll, rotate (cartwheel), balance, jump and travel.
• To use the springboard.
• To perform sequences on floor and apparatus, own, pairs and groups (5–7 elements.)
• To evaluate work - what worked well and how to improve.

RE 

This term, we will:
• Explain why a believer’s baptism is important to some Christians.
• Explain the process of a Bar or Bat Mitzvah.
• Explain why a Bar or Bat Mitzvah is important to Jewish people.

This term, we will be looking at objectives based on ‘All About Ourselves’