Term 5
Welcome to Term 5!
This term will have a fabulous History focus of the Victorians, where we will be enquiring into the main topic question, ‘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. Later on in the term, we are hopeful to hold some Victorian workshops at St John’s, to immerse the children in what school may have been like 200 years ago!
In writing, we will continue to look at the book ‘The Barnabus Project’ where the children will write a non-chronological report about an ‘imperfect pet’ in the laboratory. We will then complete some writing based around the book, ‘Dracula’s Whitby’.
Elsewhere, in maths, we will continue learning about money and having frequent recaps around our fraction and number learning from earlier this year. We will then look at representing numbers in decimals and rounding to the nearest whole number. Towards the end of the term, we will move onto solving reasoning questions using our knowledge and look at mass and capacity. In addition to this, we will continue embedding our times tables, Year 3s will continue focusing on squares while Year 4s do their 11s and 12s. Year 4 parents/carers, please do keep an eye out for communication regarding the Multiplication Check and how you can support your child at home, ahead of Term 6.
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 learning.
In PSHE, the children will be learning about media resilience, money and work and in RE, our unit is, ‘How do people express their beliefs, identity and experience?’
Finally, in P.E, the children will be playing basketball with Mr Samaras and netball with their class teacher. This P.E. learning feeds nicely into our continued science focus of ‘How do I keep my body healthy?’ where we will be looking at the different nutrients food gives us.