Mathematics
We will be following‘Target Your Maths’ in our day-today mathematics teaching. Friday morning will continue
to be multiplication tests and mental maths. Maths
investigations and enrichment will be a part of Forest
School, Friday afternoons and other cross-curricular
activities. For up-to-date maths activities and games that
support learning in class log into:
nrich.maths.org/frontpage
PSHE
Children will continue to follow ‘Values Education’.
Assembly themes will be followed up in class. Links with
the local community will continue through Friday
afternoon activities and school committees. Healthy
living and ‘Respect Yourself’ activities will be woven
into day-to-day learning.
Design & Technology and IT
In their Friday afternoon sessions children will continue to
use Scratch to learn about programming. This will be
followed by animation work. They will use seasonal produce
from the vegetable garden for their cookery. In art they will
complete a display about St Peter for St Peter’s church and
work towards topic related pieces of art work. Children will
continue to create tiles for the Longest Reigning mosaic.
Children will continue to use the internet to research topics.
Children will design and make model shelters similar to those
used by early man. They will explore the movement of
shadows and the importance of the sun to early man by
reconstructing a model Stonehenge and creating stone
monuments of their own.
Forest School and
Forest School activities will closely
follow the science and Maths
curriculum.
Art
Starting with cave art, children will
research how we know about early man
and use pictures to tell their own stories.
They will find out about Picasso and
Lowry. The children will be visiting the
Appletree Theatre to inspire their work on
Picasso. In addition they will create very
different landscapes to the Stone Age
with their Lowry work.
English
Children will learn about the Stone Age to Iron Age by
writing tourist guides, newspaper articles, diaries,
explanations, instructions and designing posters. There
will be a creative writing focus and children will enter the
Radio Two 5oo words competition.
Research projects will include places of historic interest
and comparisons between today and the past.
Year 5 and 6 children will be taking part in the
Shrewsbury Bookfest. Children will be encouraged to read
a selection of books by this year’s Bookfest authors. They
will be involved in writing, art and IT competitions and
activities based on the books, culminating in a visit to the
Bookfest awards ceremony in Shrewsbury.
Spring
2016
Neolithic
Hunter,
The
Bronze
Age and
The Iron
Age
History and Geography
Children will learn about The Late
Stone Age , The Bronze Age and
The Iron Age. What was life like
before man recorded his thoughts
in writing? Children will use a
variety of resources to find out
about the past. They will learn
about man’s need for shelter and
compare prehistoric & Iron Age
settlements and shelters with
today’s homes, plus our need for
sustainable energy and resources.
Homework
Multiplication tables, reading, Education City and spellings will continue as in the
autumn term. Education City homework will also include science. Year 6 pupils
will have additional paper homework.
Science
Children will learn about materials and their properties. They will investigate
thermal conductors and insulators. Children will learn that some materials will
dissolve in liquid to form a solution and use their knowledge of solids, liquids and
gases to decide how mixtures might be separated. They will learn that some
changes result in the formation of new materials and that this kind of change is not
usually reversible.
Spellings and Grammar
Comprehension activities and
reading different texts form an
integral part of many lessons. All
of this is monitored carefully by
teachers and support staff. In
addition, there is a quiet reading
time every day.
Each Monday the children will
be given new spellings to learn
and will have a spelling test
using the previous week’s words,
in their own sentence. This helps
the children with their spelling,
punctuation, comprehension and
concentration.
In addition, daily spelling work
will include a daily spelling
rule/pattern to learn.
Punctuation and grammar is
planned into written work and
short, daily grammar/
punctuation activities.
Religious Education
‘Open The Book’ performances will
continue on Wednesdays. Children
will be introduced to Hinduism by
learning about the festivals of Makra
Sahkranti, Vasant Panchami and
Holi Spring.
Easter will be celebrated at St Peter’s
Church.
Christian teaching will include: Peter
at Pentecost, Francis of Assisi, The
Ten Commandments, Pesach and
Eatser.
In addition children will explore the
spiritual values of prehistoric man.
Music and Drama
Weekly music lessons with Mr
Bennett will cover the music
curriculum. In addition we will
be working with the Shropshire
music service to compose and
record a school song.