Our Curriculum this half term ....

English  We will be:        ·         Writing instructions        ·         Reading the Butterfly Lion by Michael Morpurgo during guided Reading.        ·         Writing our own Explanation Texts about How we get Day and Night        ·         Writing Autumn Poems using a variety of descriptive techniques.        ·         Following the Oxford Owl Read, Write Inc. Spelling Programme.

Maths  We will be: Using Place value to a million Learning Column addition and Subtraction Thinking about how we multiply mentally Polishing up our Times Tables knowledge and related division facts Multiplying and dividing by 10,100 and 1000 Understanding Properties of Triangles Converting Measures Working out Perimeter and Area of 2D shapes

Science  We will be: Understanding the Earth’s movement in space Working scientifically

Art & DT  We will be: Learning about two artists: Peter Thorpe and Claude Monet Improving our painting techniques.

Music  We will be: Listening to and responding to music. Composing and preparing our own rhythmic patterns to play as part of a whole class cyclic pattern.

Geography  We will be: ·         Identify and describe the geographical significance of Equator, Northern Hemisphere, Southern Hemisphere, the Tropics of Cancer and Capricorn, and the Arctic and Antarctic Circle. ·         Describing key aspects of physical geography, including: climate zones. ·         Describe and understand key aspects of human geography, including: settlements, land use and economic activity.

PE  We will be: Having gymnastics every Friday afternoon working on balances. Having Games every Wednesday afternoon.

RE  We will be: Compare different ways Sikhs put their religion into practice.

Computing  We will be : Learning about Algorithms: writing our own using Scratch and debugging ones that already exist.

PSHE  We will be: thinking about how to cope with uncomfortable feelings in new situations understanding how others might feel in new situations

MFL  We will be: Learning Spanish Learning about a French Café.