In English, we will be:

• Focusing on the core texts, Garbage Guts and What a Waste.

• Writing a setting description

• Exploring and discussing the effects of plastic pollution on sea creatures.

• Writing a narrative based on the characters from Garbage guts focusing on using of descriptive devices, speech and conjunctions.

• Research facts about plastic pollution to create a non- chronological report to share with others.

In history, we will be:

• Learning about Stone Age to the Iron Age.

• Focusing on the history of sustainable farming.

• Identifying different tools which were used in the past.

• Reflecting on how history has changed the way we are today. 

• Explore pottery within the Neolithic period and create their own versions.

• Reporting on the discovery of SkaraBrae.

• Research Stone Henge and recreate their own 3D versions.

In maths, we will be:

• Representing and partitioning numbers to 1,000.

• Identifying hundreds, tens and ones.

• Finding 1, 10 or 100 more or less.

• Estimating numbers on a number line to 1,000.

• Counting in 50s.

In science, we will be:

• Learning about different types of rocks - granite, chalk, sandstone, limestone, marble, slate, pumice and basalt.

• Learning that fossils are formed in different ways - sedimentary, igneous and metamorphic.

• Understanding that sedimentary rocks are formed from layers of sand, stones and mud.

• Understanding that igneous rocks are formed by the actions of volcanoes.

• Understanding that metamorphic rocks are heated and squeezed e.g. slate and marble.

In art, we will be:

• Researching ‘plastic fashion & recycled clothing’

• Working collaboratively to research, plan and design our own Outfits.

• Create mini prototypes of a design and evaluate its effectiveness.

• Use a range of techniques to assemble a final outcome including a stitching element.

• Perform in a “Trashion Show” to share out designs and learning with an audience.

In French, we will be:

• Locating France, Paris and key cities on a map.

• Saying our name, how we are feeling and learning to count to 10 in French.

• Learning how to pronounce a range of colours and singing songs to help us with our learning.

We will be using the following reading skills:

• Inferencing

• Evaluating

• Making Connections

• Asking Questions

• Predicting

• Summarising

• Clarifying

In RE, we will be:

• Discovering the story of the Buddha (Siddhartha and the Swan)

•  Identifying and reflecting on The Dharma.

• Exploring the Four Noble Truths.

• Understand how Buddhists lead a good life.

In RSHE, we will be:

• Learning about relationships,

• Learning about family and friendships

• Learning about Living in the Wider World

In PE lessons this term, we will be:

Gymnastics

• Learning about balancing and different movements.

• Using a variety of equipment.

• Performing on a variety of equipment.

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. 

Purple Mash is also an online resource that the children can access from home too.

In English, we will be:

• Focusing on the core text, Greta and the Giants

• Writing a formal letter to Greta Thunberg abut the local area and the changes we are making to support the cause

• Writing a persuasive speech about plastic pollution and the effects it is having on climate change.

• Performing our speeches to neighbouring classes to encourage changes from pupils in our local area.

In geography, we will be:

• Learning about rivers (now and then).

• Comparing the UK with another European country.

• Using maps and atlases to explore the geographical location of a country.

• Indentifying continents and oceans.

• Comparing countries by focusing on human and physical features.

In maths, we will be:

• Adding and subtracting 1s, 10s and 100s.

• Adding and subtracting 2-digit and 3-digit numbers.

• Learning about inverse operations.

• Estimating answers to calculations.

• Multiplying and dividing focusing on 2, 3, 4 and 8 times tables.

In science, we will be:

• Learning about Animals including Humans.

• Animals, unlike plants which can make their own food, need to eat in order to get the nutrients they need.

•  Food contains a range of different nutrients such as carbohydrates (including sugars), protein, vitamins,minerals, fats, sugars, water – and fibre which are needed by the body to stay healthy.

• A piece of food will often provide a range of nutrients.

• Humans, and some other animals,have skeletons

• Muscles help animals and humans them move and provide protection and support for the bones.

In art, we will be:

• sketching leafs using different media.

• creating a tin foil leaf.

• Making a relief tile using different techniques. 

In French, we will be:

• Learning about animals.

• How to talk about our pets.

• Learning which animals are masculine or feminine words.

• Focusing on developing pronunciation by orally rehearsing phrases and sentences.

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 Shabbat and the importance it holds to Jewish people.

• Learning about Sukkot and how it is celebrated at home and the Synagogue.

• Learnign about Passover (Pesach) and how it celebrates the story of Moses and the Exodus from Egypt.

• Understanding that Israel is a special place for Jews.

• Understanding the story of Esther - Purim.

• Learning about Purim and how it is celebrated at home and the Synagogue.

In RSHE, we will be:

• Learning about relationships,

• Learning about family and friendships

• Learning about Living in the Wider World

In PE lessons this term, we will be:

Invasion Games (Hockey & Badminton)

• Learning about different invasion games.

• Learning about how to work collaboratively and as a team.

• Learning about how to 'invade' and 'tackle'.

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. Purple Mash is also an online resource that the children can access from home too.

In English, we will be:

• Reading ‘Every Child a Song’ by Nicola Davies

• Discussing segregation and human rights

• Looking at the features of a poem and different poetic styles.

• Gaining inspiration from local poets

• Writing our own poems inspired by our core text

• Performing our poems to our peers

• Creating a newspaper report

• Writing a narrative based on our core text

In history and geography, we will be:

• Comparing Italy and the United Kingdom to find their similarities and differences

• Observing different styles of maps to view human and physical geographic features

• Exploring the basics of human rights

• Identifying the origins of slavery

• Understanding the role that Britain played in the slave trade

In maths, we will be:

• Looking at patterns between different times tables.

• Using concrete and pictorial resources alongside formal methods to multiply 2-digit numbers by a 1-digit number.

• Utilising different methods to solve scaling problems.

• Identifying relationship between multiplication and division.

• Using short division to divide a 2-digit number by a 1-digit number.

In science, we will be

• Exploring forces, specifically magnetism.

• Discovering which materials are magnetic and grouping them on their properties.

• Identifying what attraction and repulsion are.

• Applying our understanding to justify our predictions.

• Creating and engaging in a fair test.

In art, we will be:

• Exploring the focus artist, Marc Martin

• Practicing painting skills, specifically through the use of acrylic and watercolour paints

• Creating a final piece, inspired by illustrations in our core text

In French, we will be:

• Learning the name of different musical instruments.

• Talking about which instruments we would like to play.

• Focusing on developing pronunciation by orally rehearsing phrases and sentences.

In reading, we will be looking at the texts:

• Nelson Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom

• Before she was Harriet

• The Story of Slavery

We will be using the following reading skills:

• Inferencing

• Evaluating

• Making Connections

• Asking Questions

• Predicting

• Summarising

• Clarifying

In RE, we will be:

• Exploring the main beliefs of the Sikh faith

• Identifying the meaning within religious symbols and places of worship

• Exploring the story of Guru Gobind Singh and the 5 Ks of Sikhism

In RSHE, we will be:

• Identifying types of personal information

• Understanding safe relationships online

• Discussing what can be safely shared online

In PE lessons this term, we will be:

Dance

• Learning how to improvise and copy basic movements and patterns in partners.

• Creating a sequence of movements and performing them to an audience.

Football

• Passing and stopping the ball using our feet.

• Tackling one another to gain control of the ball.

• Participating in a mini football game. 

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. Purple Mash is also an online resource that the children can access from home too.

In English, we will be:

• Reading ‘Telephone Tales’ by Gianni Rodari

• Writing a recount of events based on our text

• Writing instructions and providing explanations

In history and geography, we will be:

• Continuing to compare Italy and the United Kingdom to find their similarities and differences

• Observing different styles of maps to view human and physical geographic features

• Exploring the basics of human rights

• Identifying the origins of slavery

• Understanding the role that Britain played in the slave trade

In maths, we will be:

• Summarising how to find ½, ¼ and 1/3 of a shape or amount

• Recognising unit and non-unit fractions

• Identifying tenths on a number line and as a decimal

• Reasoning our understanding through the use of depth prompts

• Using a range of concrete and pictorial resources to add fractions with the same denominator

• Finding equivalent fractions

In science, we will be:

• Exploring the different parts of plants

• Planning a comparative test

• Planting our own seeds in different environments

• Recording our observations through data and scientific drawings

• Observing how water is transported through plants

• Identifying the life cycle of flowering plants

• Drawing conclusions and reflecting on what we have discovered

In DT, we will be:

• Exploring cooking skills by making pizzas

• Testing our skills in handling and preparing food

In French, we will be:

• Learning how to say 'I am able to...' and 'I know how to...'

• Applying these new sentence stems to our previously learnt French vocabulary.

• Focusing on pronunciation and how to form sentences together correctly in French.

In reading, we will be looking at the texts:

• Little Leaders: Exceptional Men in Black History

• Grandfather Gandhi

• Separate is Never Equal

We will be using the following reading skills:

• Inferencing

• Evaluating

• Making Connections

• Asking Questions

• Predicting

• Summarising

• Clarifying

In RE, we will be:

•  Identifying the key aspects of Ramadan

•  Evaluating and reflecting what Muslims learn from Ramadan

•  Appreciating the importance of fasting

•  Exploring how Muslims celebrate Eid

In RSHE, we will be:

• Considering similarities and differences between each other

• Exploring how people belong in the world

In PE lessons this term, we will be:

Tag rugby

• Developing an understanding of tackling and defending. 

• Understanding the importance of running when playing tag rugby.

• Carrying a ball appropriately when playing rugby. 

• Participating in a mini tag rugby game.

Handball

• Passing and catching the ball with different throwing techniques.

• Understanding the importance of passing when playing handball.

• Participating in a mini handball game. 

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. Purple Mash is also an online resource that the children can access from home too.

In English, we will be:

• Reading ‘The Accidental Prime Minister’ by Tom McLaughlin

• Creating reference chains to describe characters

• Exploring features of news articles

• Comparing direct and indirect speech and changing sentences between them

• Writing our own newspaper report about an event from our core text

• Reflecting on our outcome through peer and self-assessment

In history and geography, we will be:

• Investigating the physical and human features of Egypt

• Using a timeline to order dates

• Exploring the role of Pharaohs and Egyptian Queens

• Researching Cleopatra and Hatshepsut

• Identifying different structures of authority

• Comparing governance in Ancient Egypt to modern day

In maths, we will be:

• Looking at time and different ways this can be shown

• Identifying o’clock, quarter past, half past and quarter to on analogue and digital clocks

• Telling the time to 1-minute intervals and measuring time in seconds

• Exploring Roman numerals

• Identifying acute, right and obtuse angles in our environments by going on an angle hunt

• Exploring various features of shapes, such as vertical, horizontal, parallel and perpendicular lines

• Comparing 2D and 3D shapes

In science, we will be:

• Generating scientific questions to develop our understanding of light

• Exploring how light travels through different objects

• Understanding the impact of changing variables in a scientific investigation

• Investigating how light is reflected

• Making shadow puppets to show how shadows are formed and investigating how shadows change

In art, we will be:

• Exploring our focus artist, Clare Haxby.

• Understanding the term 'fine art'

• Practising fine art skills and recreating a London landmark.

In French, we will be:

• Learning names of fruits and vegetables and how to ask for them

• Expressing our opinions about fruit and vegetables

• Recognising through listening, reading and writing numbers 1 – 31

• Making sentences with plural nouns

• Tasting different French foods

In our Whole Class Reading sessions, we will be focusing on the skill of retrieval - answering questions using evidence from the text - and inference - reaching a conclusion by using evidence from the text. We will do this through exploring a variety of fiction and non-fiction texts.

In RE, we will be:

• Discussing different places of worship

• Recapping our prior learning of Christian places of worship

• Finding the similarities and differences between churches and cathedrals

• Identifying key features of churches

• Making connections between Christian values and our school values

In RSHE, we will be:

• Investigating gender roles in the past

• Investigating gender stereotypes

• Naming body parts of genders

In PE lessons this term, we will be:

Cricket

• Developing our knowledge of how to play cricket.

• Learning how to bowl a ball accurately.

• Striking a ball with a cricket bat accurately.

Outdoor and Adventurous Activities

• Taking part in problem solving activities requiring pupils to plan collaboratively in pairs or small groups.

• Planning and working together collaboratively.

• Developing observation and evaluation skills.

Homework will be set on a Friday via Google Classroom 

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. Purple Mash is also an online resource that the children can access from home too.

In English, we will be:

• Reading ‘Sofia Valdez, Future Prez’ by Andrea Beaty

• Designing our own petition boards to support our views on Mount Trashmore, from the core text

• Exploring the importance of speeches and what good speeches include

• Planning, writing, editing and filming our own persuasive speeches in the role of the main character

In history and geography, we will be:

• Identifying continents and countries on a world map

• Applying our knowledge of longitude and latitude to identify various UK counties

• Using aerial maps to describe human and physical features of Medway

• Comparing geographical features in two areas

• Researching our local area and using the information we have obtained to create an informational leaflet

In maths, we will be:

• Discussing and identifying the properties of 2D and 3D shapes

• Recognising equipment to measure various lengths and considering which would be most appropriate

• Finding the perimeter of 2D shapes and applying our knowledge to design a playground

• Exploring the monetary value of different coins and notes

• Drawing, reading and interpreting information in picograms, tally charts and tables

In science, we will be:

• Using our prior knowledge to make predictions about which material would be best to block out light

• Writing instructions for our investigation

• Ensuring that we conduct a fair test

• Analysing our results to find if our prediction was correct or incorrect

• Reflecting on our findings

In art, we will be:

• Exploring our focus artist ‘Stef Mitchell’

• Exploring the use of monoprinting

• Applying our learnt skills to create our own monoprints

In French, we will be:

• Learning about different ice-creams and how to order one in French.

• Learning the months of the year

• Discussing when our birthdays are

• Recognising the days of the week

In our Whole Class Reading sessions, we will be focusing on the skill of retrieval - answering questions using evidence from the text - and inference - reaching a conclusion by using evidence from the text. We will do this through exploring a variety of fiction and non-fiction texts.

In RE, we will be:

• Exploring the creation story

• Studying the Bible and its teachings on how the world began

• Describing how the world was believed to be formed in the Christian faith based off of what the Bible teaches Christians

In RSHE, we will be:

• Identifying different emotions.

• Explaining why different emotions are felt.

• Identifying what a 'personality' is.

• Knowing what forms part of a person’s personality.

• Naming body parts of different genders.

In PE lessons this term, we will be:

Athletics

• Developing an understanding of events in athletics.

• Developing running techniques.

• Developing jumping and throwing skills.

Multi-skills

• Developing throwing and catching skills.

• Identifying different ways of travelling.

• Explaining the definition of 'stability'.

Homework will be set on a Friday via Google Classroom 

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. Purple Mash is also an online resource that the children can access from home too.