Reading:

We will be reading two different texts this half term. We will be studying Alvaro Villa’s picture book  ‘Flood’ and ‘Poems Aloud’ by Joseph Coehelo. In addition, we will also look at Wind in the Willows, a classic children's tale.

As we study these texts, the children will be practising their ability to retrieve key information from texts, use evidence to draw inferences about characters and use evidence to support their responses to questions. 

Writing:

We will continue to use the Talk 4 Writing approach to help us write in a range of genres, including a finding tale, which includes speech. We will focus on using different toolkits to innovate our own class version before independently writing the ‘Hot Task,’.

In maths, we will begin by consolidating and building upon our learning of multiplication and division from last half term. 

Number – Multiplication and Division 

• Review/consolidation of learning from last half term – using timetables knowledge to solve these calculations and using strategies for unknown tables.
• Using methods to calculate multiplication calculations beyond our timetables knowledge e.g. 25 x 3 =

Measurement

• Length and perimeter

• name the nutrients found in food
• state that to be healthy we need to eat the right - types of food to give us the correct amount of these nutrients
• describe the main function of the skeleton
• name some of the main bones

• Our key question for the half term is: ‘What is the Trinity?’
• During this topic, pupils are expected to be able to:
• Identify the difference between a ‘Gospel’, which tells the story of the life and teaching of Jesus, and a letter.
• Offer suggestions about what texts about baptism and Trinity might mean.
• Give examples of what these texts mean to some Christians today.
• Describe how Christians show their beliefs about God the Trinity in worship (in baptism and prayer, for example) and in the way, they live.
• Make links between some Bible texts studied and the idea of God in Christianity, expressing clearly some ideas of their own about what the God of Christianity is like.

Indoor – Body Management - Gymnastics

In this unit pupils continue to develop balancing, rolling and jumping. They use these skills individually and in combination. Pupils develop their sequence work, collaborating with others to use matching and contrasting actions and shapes and develop linking sequences smoothly with actions that flow. Pupils develop their confidence to perform, considering the quality and control of their actions.

Outdoor – Invasion Games – Netball

Netball is an invasion game. In this unit pupils develop their understanding of the attacking and defending principles of invasion games. In all games activities, pupils have to think about how they use skills, strategies and tactics to outwit the opposition. In netball pupils do this by maintaining possession and moving the ball towards goal to score. Pupils develop their understanding of the importance of fair play and honesty while self-managing games and learning and abiding by key rules, as well as evaluating their own and others’ performances.

• Julius Caesar’s attempted invasion in 55-54 BC
• The successful invasion by Claudius and following conquest, including Hadrian’s Wall
• British resistance to the Romans, for example, Boudicca and Caratacus
• The ‘Romanisation’ of Britain: the impact of technology, culture and beliefs, including early Christianity.

• Experiment with different grades of pencils
• Draw familiar things from different viewpoints e.g. still life
• Make initial sketches in preparation for painting.

• Being responsible.
• Responsibility and personal space.
• Caring and empathy.