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Summer Two Jun-Jul

We are Learning…

English: The 1,000 Year-Old Boy

The children will continue with the integrated unit (narrative and non-fiction) throughout this half – term. As we continue to read the novel the children will become inspired and use what they have read to write a new ending based on a model, a persuasive advert to advertise an object of immorality and a non-chronological report.

 

 

 

Maths: Maths – No Problem!

This half-term the children will apply their skills to a real life problem! They will work in small groups with their business partners to plan, cost and market a theme park of their design. This cross-curricular pack will encourage the children to work as a team, to collaborate together, to make decisions, use thinking skills and recap previous learning.  They will need to use tally charts, calculate costs, estimate amounts and work out percentages.

 

 Theme: Home wasn’t Built in a Day

History –  Our final theme of the year is, ‘Home wasn’t built in a day!’ This historical unit will look at the local history within Skelmersdale and will see the children understand that the past is constructed from a range of sources. The children will address and question the change, cause, similarity and difference and significance in what they learn, they will construct informed responses that involve thoughtful selection and organisation of relevant historical information and they will understand that the past comes from a range of sources.

 

RE:

Our final RE unit this year is, ‘How does having faith affect a believer’s lifestyle?’ The children will explore that it means for a person to have faith and how having faith affects people’s lives, values and decisions. They will discuss that Christian people are called to build God’s kingdom    here on earth. The will know that there are people who live and have lived extraordinary lives of faith and how we can be inspired by them, that there are similarities and differences between the behaviour and values of Christians and people of other faiths and the Christian people are called to live out the teaching of the bible and build God’s kingdom through righteous living.

 

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We are Reading…

Title:  The 1,000 Year-Old Boy

Author: Ross Welford

Genre: Fantasy Novel

Publication: 11^th January 2018

 

Alfie Monk is like any other nearly teenage boy – except he’s 1,000 years old and can remember the last Viking invasion of England.

Obviously no one believes him.

So when everything Alfie knows and loves is destroyed in a fire, and the modern world comes crashing in, Alfie embarks on a mission to find friendship, acceptance, and a different way to live…

… which means finding a way to make sure he will eventually die.

Obviously no one believes him.

 

Summer One Apr-May

We are Learning…

English: The 1,000 Year-Old Boy

The children will complete an integrated unit (narrative and non-fiction) throughout this half – term. They will begin by writing a new ending based on the model from ‘The 1,000 Year-Old Boy (narrative) before moving onto a persuasive advert and a non-chronological report (non-fiction). The children will also be given the opportunity to compose their own poem about ageing, based on a model.

 

Maths: Maths – No Problem!

The children will be focusing on revising a number of previously taught concepts, as well as looking at how to solve challenging problems too. In Maths – No Problem the children will be learning how to use Ratio to compare quantities and numbers and will finish by solving word problems.

 

 Theme: Global Trade, Global Citizens.

Geography –  The children will explore Human and Physical Geography by describing and understanding key aspects including: types of settlement and land use, economic activity including trade links and the distribution of natural resources including energy, food, minerals and water. They will also use fieldwork skills to Understand a widening range of geographical terms e.g. specific topic vocabulary – urban, rural, land use, sustainability, tributary, trade links.

 

RE: Ascension and Pentecost

Our RE unit to begin summer one is: Ascension and Pentecost following Easter. The aim of this unit it to: delve deeper into the meaning and impact of these events.

Ideas about God

The children will then move onto: Ideas about God. The aim of this unit is to have a deeper understanding of the nature of God, His characteristics and His relationship with people.

 

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We are Reading…

Title:  The 1,000 Year-Old Boy

Author: Ross Welford

Genre: Fantasy Novel

Publication: 11^th January 2018

 

Alfie Monk is like any other nearly teenage boy – except he’s 1,000 years old and can remember the last Viking invasion of England.

Obviously no one believes him.

So when everything Alfie knows and loves is destroyed in a fire, and the modern world comes crashing in, Alfie embarks on a mission to find friendship, acceptance, and a different way to live…

… which means finding a way to make sure he will eventually die.

Obviously no one believes him.

 

Spring Two Feb-Apr

We are Learning…

English: Super Sleuth

To begin our next English unit, the children will use a variety of crime fiction texts to inspire their own detective story that could entertain and intrigue children in another class. They will focus on manipulating sentences for effect, use devices to build cohesion between paragraphs, select the appropriate language and structures and draw on similar writing models, reading and research. After this, the children will write an explanation text that links to their learning in our theme lessons that will be based on the suffragette movement.

 

 

Maths: Maths – No Problem!

The children will complete their learning on geometry, focusing particularly on finding missing angles. They will need to retain key facts such as the total of angles on a straight line, in a triangle, around a point and in a quadrilateral before moving onto looking at circles and the nets that form 3D shapes. Towards the end of the half term, the children will work with polygons on coordinate grids and they will differentiate between translation and reflection before moving on to express movement using algebra.

 

 Theme: Equality’s Call

History –  The children will continue with the theme ‘Equality’s Call. As part of our theme the children will be studying Equality’s Call, which links to an aspect of British history that extends beyond 1066: Democracy and the Suffragette Movement. The children will explore how the role of a woman changed within society, find out about the women’s suffrage movement and identify significant individuals who inspired this movement.

 

RE: Who was Jesus? Who is Jesus?

Our RE unit for spring two is: Who was Jesus? Who is Jesus? The aim of this unit is to consider who was Jesus and who is Jesus? The children will generate their own personal opinion as well as studying the views of others in the past and today.  

By the end of this unit pupils will know that:

• Jesus is given a variety of names to describe his character and purpose.
• There is a strong connection between Christmas and Easter and the concept of incarnation and salvation.
• We (Christians) believe Jesus was/is the Messiah and what that means.

 

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                Spring Two

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