Summer 1

Religious Education (R.E.)

HOLY WEEK

This unit provides the children with an opportunity to develop their knowledge and understanding of the story of Christ’s passion and death. They will be given opportunities to reflect upon the circumstances and reasons for his death.

EASTER

In this unit the children will be introduced to accounts of the Resurrection appearances of Christ in the four Gospel. They will learn about the different reactions of people to the news that Christ was alive. In this unit the children will study the story of the Ascension and will learn about Christian belief in the presence of Christ in the world today.

Reading Into Writing

We will be reading “The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe” by C.S.Lewis during our whole class reading lessons and will be using the story to inspire our writing. We will create portal stories in our narrative writing to explore how characters can be transported to extraordinary worlds and write letters recounting the adventures we have had in a different world.

Maths

Fractions

This half term, pupils will identify equal parts when they do not look the same related to equivalence. They will construct a whole when given a part and the number of parts. They will compose and decompose quantities made of whole numbers and fractional parts and estimate the position of numbers on a number line using fraction sense. They will compare and order mixed numbers using fraction sense when the whole number and the numerator of the fractional part is the same. Pupils will make efficient choices about the order they solve an addition and subtraction problem in and will express and convert a quantity from an improper fraction to a mixed number and explain how a mixed number is converted into an improper fraction. Pupils will add mixed numbers. They will subtract a proper fraction from a mixed number and subtract a mixed number from a mixed number explaining which strategy is most efficient.

Spelling, Punctuation & Grammar

In spellings we will be learning and practising a variety of letter combinations:

Week 1 spellings: homophones: would, wood, hair, hare, rain, reign, wail, whale, wait, weight

Week 2 spellings: Common exception words: accident, address, answer, business, calendar, century, disappear, enough, important, knowledge

Week 3 spellings: Common exception words: material, minute, naughty, occasion, opposite, peculiar, possession, probably, quarter, question

Week 4 spellings: Common exception words: recent, remember, separate, special, strength, suppose, though, thought, various, women