Summer 2

Religious Education (R.E.) 

PENTECOST: The children will study the story of Pentecost and identify the effects that it had upon the disciples.

SHARING IN THE LIFE OF CHRIST: THE CHURCH AS A COMMUNITY: The children learn about the Universal Church established on the original teaching of the Apostles. They will reflect upon the Eucharist as the Sacrament which celebrates the Church’s Unity.

SPECIAL ROLES & RESPONSIBILITIES: The children will learn about the different tasks and responsibilities given to people in the Church. This will help them to develop their understanding of the Church as the Body of Christ made up of many different people.

Reading Into Writing

We will be reading “The Girl who stole an Elephant” by Nizrana Farook during our whole class reading lessons and will be using the story to inspire our writing. We will create stories from other cultures in our narrative writing using the vocabulary of another part of the world. In our non-narrative writing, we will create non-chronological reports about an animal or aspect of the culture we have learned about in the story.

Spelling, Punctuation & Grammar 

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

Week 1 spellings: Unstressed vowels: heaven, deafening, definitely, desperate, business, dictionary, library, miserable, different, interesting, frightening, secretary

Week 2 spellings: Soft and hard g: gent, challenge, dangerous, garden, garage, gate, disguise, guess, orange, edge, plunged, stranger, genuine, emergency, generous, grateful

Week 3 spellings: ‘augh’ or ‘au’: author, daughter, autumn, naughty, applaud, slaughter, cause, caught, astronaut, haughty

Week 4 spellings: Compound nouns: toothbrush, firefighter, rainbow, dustpan, postman, hairbrush, cloakroom, backpack, teapot, waterfall

Week 5 spellings: Revision week

Maths

• Pupils will learn to 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.
• Pupils will complete and compose symmetrical shapes from two congruent shapes and investigate lines of symmetry in 2D shapes.
• Pupils will explain, represent and compare whole pounds and pence. They will convert quantities of money between pounds and pence and use the most efficient and reliable strategy to find the change.
• Pupils will read, write and convert time between analogue and digital 12- and 24-hour clocks. They will solve problems involving converting from hours to minutes, minutes to seconds, years to months, weeks to days.
• Pupils will interpret a division story with a remainder representing it with an equation. They will explain how the remainder relates to the divisor.

Science

Scientists

In this unit, we will be learning about the lives and works of a variety of scientists. They will learn about their fields of interest and the impact of their works and discoveries.

Geography

South America vs North America

In this unit the children will be exploring the continents of North and South America. They will learn the locations of the countries through map work and discover the physical and human features of the countries and delve a little deeper into some of the cities, languages and cultures found in the Americas. They will finally make decisions around where they would like to live in those places they have been learning about.

Physical Education (P.E.)

Children will need their PE kit in school on Mondays and Wednesdays: red round-necked PE top, navy shorts, plain black pumps. 

This half term in PE we are studying rounders, football rounders and athletics. We are working on skills including: throwing, catching, bowling, batting as well as athletic events such as running, jumping and throwing.

French

Shopping in France

During this half-term the children will learn:

• To build numbers and prices confidently in French
• To name different foods in French and notice patterns in sounds.
• To be able to join in with and perform a short, repetitive story using voice and actions to communicate to an audience.
• To be able to use vocabulary to describe a quantity of different food nouns.
• To be able to explore and understand an authentic French text.

Personal,  Social & Health Education (PSHE)

This term the children will explore a variety of themes through our TenTen Scheme of work, Catholic Social Teaching and British Values.

The children will:

• Consider what it is like to live in A community of love (LTTF)
• Be able to answer the question: What is the church? (LTTF)
• Reflect on the question: How do I love others? (LTTF)
• Learn about Money Matters (LTTF)
• Think about the British Value -Individual Liberty
• Consider the CST: Rights and Responsibilities / Human Rights
• Share ideas about Keeping safe online
• Work with new staff and in new rooms to Transition to Year 5 successfully

Design and Technology

Pneumatic Moving Monsters

In our Design and technology the children will:

• Explore what pneumatics are including how they use pressurized air to create a motion and discover how the input is the pressure and the output is the air that results in mechanical outcome.
• Learn about where we find mechanisms that use pneumatic systems in the real world e.g. pneumatic systems in Air brakes on buses and trains, Inflatable structures, Rollercoasters and Pneumatic Launchers (like a spud gun)
• Create a mechanism using pneumatic systems using a syringe attached to a plastic tube which will be attached to a balloon inside a cardboard box
• Evaluate our models to check their reliability.

Computing

Creating media – Photo editing

The children will develop their understanding of how digital images can be changed and edited, and how they can then be resaved and reused. They will consider the impact that editing images can have, and evaluate the effectiveness of their choices.

Music

Getting Ready for our Music Exams!!!