Within this topic, the children will get the chance to study states of matter and different materials within Science. We will even erupt our own volcano with our parents! In Geography, they will use atlas’, maps and digital mapping to locate countries and features. We will also study the greenhouse gases from volcanoes that contribute to global warming. Lets go!

Focus text: Escape to Pompeii by Christina Balit

The eruption of Mount Vesuvius in AD 79 destroyed Pompeii, but some people must have survived. Taking this historical event as a starting point, this story tells of Tranio, an actor’s son, and his friend Livia, the baker’s daughter, as they witness the destruction of their beloved city.

Hook

As we are going to be writing a warning tale we learnt about how to act incase of an Earthquake!

We erupted our volcanoes with our parents and carers from home using bicarbonate soda, red food colouring and vinegar.

During this term, we are going to be focusing on the Anglo-Saxon and Viking times in Britain. In Art, we will study material pattern printing from these periods in time. In Geography, we will learn the locations of certain settlements and look at their geographical features. We will study the Viking tale ‘Beowulf’ and innovate it to create our very own ‘conquering the monster tale’.

Focus text: Beowulf

In this tale, Beowulf battles the terrible monster ‘Grendel’. We will look at this story for our writing this term. We shall innovate the tale to create our very own ‘conquering the monster tale’. 

We designed and made our own terrifying monsters!

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During this term we will be learning about how the human body works when we digest our food. We will look at different foods and how important to us a healthy diet is. We will study teeth and see how different foods will effect our enamel. For music, we will play the handbells. In PE, we will learn how to play rounders.

Focus text: Poppy and Waldo by Pie Corbett

In writing, we will be creating our own ‘meeting tale’ based on the story Poppy and Waldo. they two children get to meet a giant!

TA giant came to visit our classroom!

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Within our topic this term we will be learning about magnets and their properties. We will also be looking at different metals and their magnetic properties. We will study friction and how this impacts upon movement.

As part of Design and Technology, we will create a moving robot – how exciting!

We are very lucky this term to be having a community artist Kate to help deliver our art lessons – we will be making metal structures. Parents will be able to come into school on the 16th May to create metal jewellery with the children – Yay!

In PE, we shall be playing badminton.

This text is a moving tale about a Robot that has a broken heart and a bird looking for a helping hand.

For our hook for our writing, we built Robots out of junk modelling materials. 

Coming soon!

Parents will be invited into school on the 16th May at 2.30pm to make metal jewellery with us.

In Blue Abyss we are going to be looking at living things and their habitats and food chains. In Geography, we are going to be identifying the positions and the importance of many key parts that a globe tells us. We are also going to be thinking about climate change on the water cycle and the availability of drinking water.

Coming soon!

Coming soon!