Term 5

English

This term we will be finding out about persuasive texts and what this means and how they can be used.  We will be writing our own texts about why our rivers are so important and what we can do to look after them.  We will set off for a visit to our own Trent river as inspiration for our writing. 

We will look at different features or persuasive texts and what their purpose is and the effect our writing can have on the reader.  To finish off we will present our writing neatly into a leaflet so that we can inform others about what we have learnt.

Later in the term we will be using 'A River' by Marc Martin as inspiration to write our own creative descriptions of a river.

In Guided reading, the children will be reading the wonderful book 'The Wild Robot' They will be looking at the themes of this story and improving the fluency of our reading along with our comprehension of what has been read.

   Maths

We will have a main focus on addition, subtraction, multiplication and division this term before moving onto our new learning of statistics, looking at pictograms, bar charts and tables.

Geography- Rivers

This term we will learn about rivers, looking at; What is a water cycle? How are rivers formed? Where can we find rivers? How are rivers used? What can we find out about our local river? and What features does our local river have?

                                        Science - Sound

In Science, we will be learning all about Sound. They will investigate how sound is made, what makes different sounds, what a vibration is and what we mean by pitch and volume.

PSHEE-

In PSHEE, we shall be learning about what a job is, why we have jobs and what jobs there are. We will then move on to learning about all the ways we can keep ourselves safe.

RE -  Islam

In our RE lessons this term we will  find out about the wonderful religion of Islam. In particular we shall look at the Pillars of Islam and how Muslims embrace their community.

Computing - Photo editing 

In computing we shall be looking at how we can use technology to help us to take photographs and how these photographs can be changed for a variety of reasons.

Physical education

This term for our Outdoors PE we shall be introducing the children to tennis. We will look at the forehand, the backhand and the serve.

We will be putting these skills into a game situations as well.

For our Indoors OPE we shall be revisiting our dance learning.

French

In term 4 we learnt the vocabulary for different family members.  This term we will learn about our other important family members- our pets.  We will learn the vocabulary as well as being able to describe them.  We will also write some sentences in French to show what we have learnt as we increase our verbal and written knowledge of French.

Music

In music we will continue learning about our composer for the year – Beethoven.  This term we will try to compose in his style- focusing on getting louder then quieter (crescendo and decrescendo).

We will also be listening to some soft rock music from different greats such as The Beatles, Bowie, Oasis.  We will compose our own tunes to play along to a rock backing tune.  We will use what we have learnt so far this year about the length of notes and pitch as we compose in groups.  

Knowledge Organisers

We shall be starting to use knowledge organisers as a way to share the key knowledge for subject areas with you.  Please use these to revise the key knowledge with your children.