Science: Over the course of the term, the children will be developing and securing their understanding of animals including humans and living things and their habitats. We will understand our place in the natural world and how our lives are shaped by our surroundings.

Computing: over the half term, the children will learn how to design and make their own digital game. They will develop the challenges and levels in their games and understand how gaming can be a positive influence of our problem-solving skills.

Jigsaw: in this half term, we will be completing our relationships unit. We will think about our relationships with others and how the relationships we form play a crucial and important part of our upbringing.  

Art: our focus for the half term will city and countryside landscapes. We will look at artist Georgia O’Keefe as our inspiration for our piece of work. We will use different media to help create our own pieces and use them for displays in our school community.

Music: This half term, we are really lucky to have a music teacher come into school to teach the children how to play the Djembe drum. They will learn about the history and origin of the instrument and start to learn how to play the instrument to different rhythms.

History: over the course of the half term, we will reflect on our learning of Ancient Greece and understand the legacy that they left for the world. We will understand how modern society’s culture can trace it’s roots back to Ancient Greece and how ideas and inventions created by the Greeks are still used today.

RE: as we begin this term, we develop our understanding of Christianity and understand the importance of the eucharist. We will learn how Christians value the eucharist as the body of Christ and the significance of it’s role in Church services.

PE: the children will be continuing to develop skills they have learnt previously as we head into the term. Striking and fielding games will be one of our focuses where the children will apply key skills across sports such as crickets, baseball and rounders. We will also begin our preparations for sports days with a focus on athletics. Aspirational students will have the chance to represent the school at Town Sports Competitions.  

This half term, we will be exploring the spy classic, Stormbreaker. We will explore the adventures of Alex Rider as he is thrust into the espionage world after the tragic passing of family members. We will write explanation texts based on the gadgets he uses in the story and with a focus on using different clause structures in our work. The children will then have the opportunity to create with own spy gadget and write about its important uses.

Spellings:

Spellings play a vital part to our writing, and we will have a focus on word endings for ible/able and cial/tial over the half term. These word endings appear often in our writing and it is important we understand when to use the correct spellings. We will continue to have a focus on words from the Year 5 and 6 spelling list too.