PE and outdoor learning

Victoria's PE days are Monday and Tuesday.

PE/Outdoor learning kit should be brought to class on Monday and taken home on Friday to be washed and cleaned. Unfortunately, if your child do not bring in their PE kit into school then they will not be able to participate in PE for that session. As a reminder, can children also not come to school wearing earrings on PE days. Earrings cannot be removed at school as per the risk assessment in order to keep everyone safe.

Children should all have a full PE kit which includes: black shorts/ black tracksuit bottoms (for colder weather), white T-shirt, jumper and a suitable footwear.

English - Writing

Stimulus : From a range of subjects

Writing: Writing paragraphs with a focus on cohesion, including using adverbials, relative clause and expanded noun phrases to add complex information.

Narrative Poem – The Highwayman -  Firstly, we will focus on how authors use language including figurative language and the impact it has on the reader.  Then we make in- depth comparisons between events, issues and characters within a text, and how character’s description help us to infer their feelings, thoughts and motives from their actions. Using perfect form verbs, we will write an alternate ending for the ‘Highwayman’.

English - Reading

Stimulus– Ancient Greece, Greek Myths, and extracts from a range of fiction books, and properties of materials, Forces and current key events for non-fiction texts.

Maths

• Area and perimeter
• Number facts to increase the fluency in multiplication table facts and corresponding division facts
• Multiply and divide by 10,100 and 1000
• Factors, multiples and prime numbers
• Formal written methods up to 4 digit by one-digit ( multiplication and division)
• Geometry – Compare, estimate,  measure  and draw angles in degrees

• Fractions -  non-unit fractions of quantities, equivalent fractions, represent fractions as decimals.

  Number and place value – specific focus on decimals

Science

Properties and changes of materials –

• Compare and group together everyday materials on the basis of their properties, including their hardness, solubility, transparency, conductivity (electrical and thermal), and response to magnets
• Understand that some materials will dissolve in liquid to form a solution, and describe how to recover a substance from a solution
• Use knowledge of solids, liquids and gases to decide how mixtures might be separated, including through filtering, sieving and evaporating
• Give reasons, based on evidence from comparative and fair tests, for the particular uses of everyday materials, including metals, wood and plastic
• Demonstrate that dissolving, mixing and changes of state are reversible changes
• Explain that some changes result in the formation of new materials, and that this kind of change is not usually reversible, including changes associated with burning and the action of acid on bicarbonate of soda.

Forces -  

• Explain that unsupported objects fall towards the Earth because of the force of gravity acting between the Earth and the falling object
• Identify the effects of air resistance, water resistance and friction, that act between moving surfaces
• Recognise that some mechanisms, including levers, pulleys and gears, allow a smaller force to have a greater effect.

History

Building on Year 4's study of the impact on Britain of Anglo Saxons and Viking invaders, through this unit, children should understand that our society was also influenced by a civilisation in another country - Ancient Greece. Children should gain an understanding of daily life in ancient Greece and including ideas, beliefs, attitudes and experiences of men, women and children - Comparing Athenians vs Sparta. A study of Greek achievements and their influence on the western world - including democracy and politics. Understand the rise and fall of the civilisation. Compare with A non-European ancient civilisation around the world at the same time.

History based ART:  Children will making a prototype of Olympic armature  based on a cultural artist.

• I can research a historic or cultural artist or architect and use their work to replicate a style.
• I can produce increasingly accurate drawings of people.
• Shape, form, model and join a malleable material.
• Make from observation  or imagination; Use slip and score to join clay.

PSHE

Keeping safe - Sun safety

Growing and changing (SRE - More information will follow shortly)

Friendships

Career options

Puberty

RE

Why rituals and traditions are important?

Focus – Islam, Buddhism, Christianity and Humanism

TTRS

We will also be continuing to consolidate our times tables with daily activities. Don’t forget you can log on to TTRS at home to continue to work towards challenging your teacher and your peers. Please email your child’s class teacher if you want help with logging on at home.

Homework

Your child has logins for TTRS, Accelerated Reader for quizzing, Edshed for spellings, and Purplemash to deepen their understanding of what is being taught at school. Please email your child’s class teacher if you want help with logging on at home.