The focus of this context is the Science and Technology AoLE from Curriculum for Wales. We will be working specifically on the following Statement of What Matters: ‘Forces and energy provide a foundation for understanding our universe'.

What will we be covering?

Our focus on Science and Technology will involve investigating different types of forces and finding out how they act on objects. We will be linking our understanding with our Design skills, to create simple machines.

In Literacy we will be learning about instructional writing and applying our skills to writing instructions for one of the machines we have created. We will also learn about explanation texts, using this skill to explain how some of the forces we have learnt about work. We will also be revisiting literacy genres taught in the Autumn and Spring terms, and applying our knowledge and skills to this current context.  Such carefully planned revisiting helps to ensure that pupils both deepen and strengthen their understanding of each genre.

We will have a big focus on outdoor learning this term, as we continue to make the best use we can of our new school grounds. A big part of this will involve Maths as we use position, direction, shape and measure to map out our outdoor learning area (this is in addition to our usual Big Maths curriculum).

We will also be working hard on our Computational Thinking skills this term, as we design computer programs which model they way that forces interact with objects.

Gallery and Seesaw: Photos and Videos

Please check our main school website gallery to see what we have been doing - both within our Step and across the whole school.  You can also access this gallery by clicking the Gallery button on our homepage.   Don't forget to check your child's Seesaw account as well, for even more photos and videos!