Term 5
Welcome to term 5!
This term is a fabulous History focus of the Victorians, where we will be enquiring into the following, ‘VICTORIANS: Woeful or Wonderful?’ In our learning, the children will access a range of sources, to retrieve information and to generate their own opinions when answering the topic question. History will therefore feed into our English and reading this term, with the children completing non-chronological reports about their research. We will also be using the text, ‘Street Child’ by Berlie Doherty to understand the conditions and routines of Victorian life. Later on in the term, we are super excited to hold some Victorian workshops at St John’s, to immerse the children in what school may have been like 200 years ago!
Elsewhere, in maths, we are hoping to complete our fraction learning this term, with a focus on decimals. We will look at representing numbers in decimals and rounding to the nearest whole number. We then hope to move onto time and solving reasoning questions using our knowledge. If you are able to practise telling the time with your child(ren), that would be amazing!
In art, we are going to create our first sculpture of the year, using wire as our medium. Robin Wight and Kate Packer are our two sculptor inspirations for this unit, but we will also allow the children to be creative and free when producing their own sculpture. At the end of the term, we hope to invite you all in to come and take a look at our wonderful learning.
Finally, in P.E, the children will be exploring racket sports with Mr Samaras and will be completing gymnastics with their class teacher. This P.E. learning feeds nicely into our science focus of ‘How do I keep my body healthy?’ where we will be looking at the different jobs and nutrients food gives us.
What a fun term it is going to be!