In English, we will be:

• Studying the core text 'Azzi in Between'

• Making inferences using artefacts

• Understanding what refugees are and how they feel when they travel to new countries

• Identifying features of a narrative and writing our own

• Identifying similes, metaphors and personification 

• Using punctuation for effect

• Writing a setting description 

• Identifying formal and informal tones

In geography, we will be:

• Locating continents around the world

• Comparing locations around the world

• Identifying how war can impact countries

• Explaining the human geography of countries impacted by war

• Researching a country impacted by war

In maths, we will be:

• Representing numbers to 10,000

• Partitioning numbers to 10,000

• Finding 1, 10, 100 and 1000 more/less of a number

• Rounding to the nearest 10, 100 and 1000

• Adding and subtracting 1s, 10s, 100s and 1000s with exchangeds

• Finding the area of a shape

In science, we will be:

• Describing observations of states of matter

• Identifying the differences between solid, liquid
  and gas

• Recording data using observations

• Observing and investigating materials as they
  change state

In art/DT, we will be:

• Studying the artist, 'Solara Shiha'.

• Using watercolour to recreate waves in the style of the artist

• Planning and desgning a moving boat for a particular audience

• Manipulating, measure, cutting and assembling materials effectively to make a moving boat

In French, we will be:

• Learning how to pronounce letters and sounds

• Identifying the seasons

• Describing what the weather is like in each season

We will be using the following reading skills:

• Inferencing

• Evaluating

• Making Connections

• Asking Questions

• Predicting

• Summarising

• Clarifying

Spelling:

• Homophones or near homophones

• Prefix 'in-' meaning 'not'

• Prefixes 'il-', 'im-' and 'ir-'

• Prefix 'sub-' meaning 'below' or 'further divided'

• Prefix 'inter-' meaning 'between' or 'among' 

• Suffix '-ation'

In R.E, we will be:

• Learning about 'Hinduism'.

• Learning about Hindu Life.

• Learning about the natural world and what this means to Hinduism.

• Learning about vegetarianism.

• Learning about ahimsa.

In RSHE, we will be:

• Understanding courtesy and manners in a range of situations

• Understanding the physical and emotional boundaries in friendships

• Understanding that our behaviour can have an impact on others

• Understanding the impact of bullying

• Recognising that stereotypes can relate to a number of factor

• Comparing different types of families

• Understanding what bereavement is

In our PE lessons this term, we will be:

• Developing our dancing skills.

• Developing our netball skills.

Homework will be set on a Friday via Google Classroom and must be handed in by the following Friday.

Times Tables Rock Stars is available for the children to play on to practise their timetables.

In English, we will be:

• Studying the core text 'When Hitler Stole Pink Rabbit'

• Exploring different fronted adverbials.

• Posing questions and responding to questions in role

• Exploring past progressive tense and perfect past tense

• Understanding the impact of first and third person 

• Writing a historical recount

• Comparing formal and informal tone 

• Identifying the features of a persuasive letter 

In history, we will be:

• Identifying and exploring key events of WWII

• Understanding and empathising with life during the Blitz

• Comparing refugees and evacuees

• Understanding the impact of war in the modern world

• Visiting Kent Life for a WWII Theme Day

• Researching a key historical figure

In maths, we will be:

• Making shape using knowledge of area

• Multiplying and dividing by 3, 6, 9, 7, 11, 12 

• Dividing by 1 and itself

• Multiplying 3 numbers

• Using factor pairs

• Multiplying and dividing by 10 and 100

In science, we will be:

• Learning about animals including humans

• Describing the simple functions of the basic parts of the digestive system in humans.

• Identifying the different types of teeth in humans and their simple functions.

• Constructing and interpreting a variety of food chains, identifying producers, predators and prey.

In art/DT, we will be:

• Studying the artist, 'Alwy Fadheel'.

• Developing our sketching techniques.

• Understanding the importance of building up a sketchbook.

• Creating a silhouette landscape using coffee wash

• Researching, planning and designing a wartime recipt

• Baking a cake that was popular during WWII

In French, we will be:

• Naming vegetables

• Recognising and pronouncing vegetables

• Asking and answering questions about vegetables

• Using the conjunction 'et'

We will be using the following reading skills:

• Inferencing

• Evaluating

• Making Connections

• Asking Questions

• Predicting

• Summarising

• Clarifying

Spelling:

• Suffix '-ation'

• Suffix '-ly'

• Suffix '-lly'

• Words where 'ch' makes a /sh/ sounds

• Suffix '-sion'

In RE, we will be:

• Learning about how different religions worship

• Comparing acts of worship between different religions, such as Islam, Christianity, Buddhism and Hinduism

In RSHE, we will be:

• Understanding the Human Rights Convention

• Understand how reusing items benefits the environment

• Understanding the role of groups in the wider community

• Understanding the contribution groups make to a community

• Understanding the value of diversity in a community

• Developing an understanding of the role in of local government

In our PE lessons this term, we will be:

• Developing our hockey skills

• Developing our badminton skills

Homework will be set on a Friday via Google Classroom and must be handed in by the following Friday.

Times Tables Rock Stars is available for the children to play on to practise their timetables.

In English, we will be:

• Studying the core text 'Race to the Frozen North'

• Researching who is Matthew Henson

• Discussing facts about Matthew Henson

• Understanding what a biography is

• Recognising the language and structural features of a biography

• Exploring a range of newspaper articles

• Understanding how the 5 W's are used in newspaper articles

• Recognising the language and structural features of a newspaper article

In geography, we will be:

• Identifying the continents of the world

• Planning routes across the continents in a similar style to explorer Matthew Henson

• Mapping out a simple journey in the local area using aerial maps

• Using positional language to plan a route across the world

• Identifying the Arctic circle, the Equator, and the Northern and Southern Hemispheres

• Understanding how climates across the world vary depending on your position on the globe

In maths, we will be:

• Understanding and using factor pairs

• Multiplying and dividing by 100

• Writing informal multiplication methods

• Dividing 2-digit with 1-digit numbers

• Measuring in kilometres and metres

• Calculating the perimeter of rectalinear shapes

• Exploring fractions

In science, we will be:

• Classifying animals based on characteristics, features and their habitats

• Understanding what vertebrate and invertebrate animals are

• Comparing animals based on their different characteristics and habitats

• Discussing ways in which environments can change and how it impacts living things

• Identifying how human impact and natural changes affect the environment

In art, we will be:

• Creating a mood board on the works of Kate Shaw

• Experimenting with the colours and tones of Aurora Borealis, using chalk pastels, oil pastels and watercolours 

• Blending colours to create the correct tones to recreate Kate Shaw's Aurora Borealis artwork

• Collaging using different textures to create the foreground and background

In French, we will be:

• Knowing how to count to 20 in French

• Asking somebody how they are feeling and give an appropriate response back

• Ask somebody their age, name, where they live and reply

In reading, we will be looking at the texts:

• Shakleton's Journey

• Great Adventures

• The Road Not Taken by Robert Frost

• Everest

We will be using the following reading skills:

• Inferencing

• Evaluating

• Making Connections

• Asking Questions

• Predicting

• Summarising

• Clarifying

In RE, we will be:

• Comparing different types of churches around the world

• Looking at the different types of Christian places of worship, e.g. churches, chapels, cathedrals

• Identifying similarities and differences between what Christians believe compared to other religions

• Preparing enquiry questions to ask during our church visit

• Visiting our local church

In R.S.H.E, we will be:

• Discussing what a relationship is and what kind of relationships we have

• Sharing ideas about what makes a good friend

• Understanding what to do in school to support people who are feeling lonely

• Creating a comic strip of scenarios to advertise awareness of stranger danger both in person and online

In our PE lessons this term, we will be:

• Developing our skills involved in football

• We will be focusing on swimming at Medway Park and learning how to safely use the skills we have learnt

Homework will be set on a Friday via Google Classroom and must be handed in by the following Friday.

Times Tables Rock Stars is available for the children to play on to practise their timetables.

In English, we will be...

• Focusing on the text, 'The Girl of Ink and Stars'

• Identifying the language and structural features of a diary entry

• Understanding how to use paragraphs

• Using descriptive devices such as fronted adverbials, expanded noun phrases, prepositional phrases, similes and metaphors

• Describing feelings using emotive language and the 'show not tell' technique

• Identifying the language and structural features of a narrative

• Understanding the purpose of speech marks

In geography, we will be:

• Describing examples of human and physical geography within countries being studied

• Developing an understanding of the human geography in different countries

• Understanding the physical geography of Brazil and Greenland

• Understanding the physical geography of our local area

In maths, we will be:

• Understanding the whole (fractions)

• Counting beyond 1

• Partitioning mixed numbers

• Comparing and ordering mixed numbers

• Understanding improper fractions

• Converting mixed numbers to improper fractions

• Adding two or more fractions (including mixed numbers)

• Subtracting two fractions (including mixed numbers)

In science, we will be:

• Describing animals and their habitats

• Identifying and comparing living things

• Classifying living things

• Using a classification key to identify invertebrates

• Describing environmental dangers to endangered species

In art, we will be:

• Creating a mood board based on the focus artist John Dyer

• Sketching trees and leaves outside of the classroom

• Using four different mediums to create shade and tone to a drawing

In French, we will be:

• Remembering the nouns for family members in French

• Describing our own or fictitious family in French by name, age and relationship

• Counting up to 100 in French

• Understanding possessive adjectives better in French

In reading, we will be looking at the texts:

• The Girl of Ink and Stars

• Goldfish Boy

• The Raven by Edgar Allan Poe

We will be using the following reading skills:

• Inferencing

• Evaluating

• Making Connections

• Asking Questions

• Predicting

• Summarising

• Clarifying

In RE, we will be:

• Exploring the meaning of religious symbols

• Exploring the life of Guru Nanak

• Recognising the importance of the Guru Granth Sahib for Sikhs

• Describing how Sikhs worship

• Exploring a Sikh place of worship

In R.S.H.E, we will be:

• Understanding what a 'digital footprint' is

• Identifying different methods of payment and how to budget

In our PE lessons this term, we will be:

• Developing our skills involved in basketball

• We will be focusing on swimming at Medway Park and learning how to safely use the skills we have learnt

Homework will be set on a Friday via Google Classroom and must be handed in by the following Friday.

Times Tables Rock Stars is available for the children to play on to practise their timetables.

In English, we will be:

• Focusing on the core text, 'Wonder'

• Researching the topic identity and diversity

• Understanding different disabilities and the stories behind them

• Understand what a balanced and unbalanced argument is

• Recognise the structural and language features of a argument

• Explore a range of balanced arguments.

• Building evidence to support our arguments.

In history, we will be:

• Understanding how the Roman Empire began and its it timeline

• Identify how the Empire was managed

• Recognise how the Empire developed across the continent

• Understand the impact the Roman Empire had on Britian

• Explore how the Roman Empire declined.

In maths, we will be:

• Comparing and ordering decimals

• Rounding to the nearest whole number

• Writing money using decimals

• Comparing amounts of money

• Reading the time to the nearest hour, minute, second

• Converting between analogue and digital times

In science, we will be:

• Understanding how sound is made

• Comparing sources of sound and how they differ 

• Observing how vibrations from sound travel

• Explaining the relationship between the pitch of sound and the source

• Creating a hypothesis and understand a fair test

• Investigating how different materials affect volume

In art, we will be:

• Creating a mood board on the works of Sandra Silberzweig

• Experimenting with the colours and tones of portraits, using paint and watercolours 

• Blending colours to create the correct tones to recreate a cubist self portrait

• Creating a palette of colours to collage together in a cubist painting

In French, we will be:

• Naming common classroom objects

• Learning how to use the negative in French

• Describing what we have and do not have

• Responding to simple classroom commands

In reading, we will be looking at the texts:

• Wonder

• So you think you've got it bad?

• El Deabo

• Not so different

We will be using the following reading skills:

• Inferencing

• Evaluating

• Making Connections

• Asking Questions

• Predicting

• Summarising

• Clarifying

In RE, we will be:

• Learning about Judaism.

• Learning about the Synagogue. 

• Learning about the Torah and how it is written on parchment scroll in Hebrew.

• Understanding the rules and laws which set out how people should live

• Understanding the Ten Commandments 

In RSHE, we will be:

• Identifying how to maintain a balanced lifestyle

• Understanding how to recognsised of physical illness and how to care for it

• Identifying the importance of looking after our teeth.

In our PE lessons this term, we will be:

• Developing our skills involved in athletics and tennis

Homework will be set on a Friday via Google Classroom and must be handed in by the following Friday.

Times Tables Rock Stars is available for the children to play on to practise their timetables.

In English, we will be:

• Learning about the core text 'Fish in a Tree'

• Understanding what makes a good quality text

• Recognising invisible disibilities and researching dyslexia

• Undertanding the structural and language features of a speech

• Building a bank of knowledge of the skills in a speech

• Planning and writing an informative speech

• Performing speeches to our peers.

In history, we will be:

• Immersing ourselves into Roman culture

• Understanding the impact the Romans had on modern society

• Considering the influence of the Roman Empire on architecture

• Making links with the Roman Empire

• Understanding how trade was influenced

In maths, we will be:

• Identifying, comparing and ordering angles

• Identifying the properties of triangles, quadrilaterals and polygons

• Interpreting charts and line graphs

• Plotting coordinates on a grid

In science, we will be:

• Identifying the role of components in a circuit

• Controlling variables to create a fair test

• Applying our knowledge to complete a circuit 

• To record and present results accurately

• To plan a fair investigation

In art, we will be:

• Creating a mood board on the works of Kathy Sosa

• Experimenting with the colours and tones of sketches, using charcoal and pastels 

• Blending colours to create the correct tones to create a background

• Creating a palette of colours to collage together

In French, we will be:

• Naming common foods, snacks and drinks

• Understanding how to make nouns plural

• Improving our knowledge of French currency

• Ordering in French what we would like to eat and drink

In reading, we will be looking at the texts:

• Fish in a tree

• Song lyrics

• Goldfish boy

• I am not a label

We will be using the following reading skills:

• Inferencing

• Evaluating

• Making Connections

• Asking Questions

• Predicting

• Summarising

• Clarifying

In RE, we will be:

• Understanding how Buddhists follow the teachings of the Buddha 

• Exploring the relationship between Buddhists and enlightenment

• Identifying the Buddhist values 

• Discuss the Buddhist values

• Explore the festival of Sangha

In RSHE, we will be:

• Exploring ways to keep ourselves healthy

• Discussing how puberty changes the body

• Discussing how emotions change over time

In our PE lessons this term, we will be:

• Developing our skills involved in multi skills 

Homework will be set on a Friday via Google Classroom and must be handed in by the following Friday.

Times Tables Rock Stars is available for the children to play on to practise their timetables.