Summer Term

English

In English this term we will be studying Michael Rosen’s Poem ‘Don’t’, Michael Bond’s Paddington Bear and our Non-fiction unit will be studying recounts linked to events happening in school.

**See English overview for further information.  

Reading

Our Author for the Summer Term is Michael Bond who wrote all the ‘Paddington Bear’ adventure books. The children will also take part in guided reading sessions each day were they can practise fluency and pace and begin to work on their expression skills. Children will also be looking at comprehension skills and learning all about the different types of questions they can be asked such as retrieval, vocabulary, prediction, sequencing and inference.

Maths

In maths the children will be learning all about position and direction and focus on directions such as up, down, left and right and looking at ½, ¼, ¾ and whole turns. Next, children will study Mass, capacity and temperate and learn to read different skills and focus on estimating, comparing and ordering. We will then learn about statistics and collect data in tally charts and represent this data in pictograms and block graphs.  Finally, we will finish the Summer time by looking at lengths and heights using cm and m.

**See maths overview for more details.

Science

Science lessons this term will cover ‘Plants’ à looking at different types of plants and carrying out experiments to test what plants need in order to grow. Finally, children will study materials and learn the characteristics of materials and use these to help them come with ideas of experiments to carry out in class.

History/Geography

In History children will be learning about Significant explorers and learn about what makes someone significant and look at famous explorers and what they achieved and why it is still important today. In geography we will look at our world and learn about the 7 continents and 5 oceans and use these to help us plan journeys around the world as well as learn about different climates of our continents.

DT

In DT children will study Mechanisms and design and make their own Moon Buggies. Children will plan their design carefully and evaluate each section and then use this to create their final piece where they will use a range of materials as well as practising their sawing skills! Later in the Term children will continue with their food technology skills and create their own ‘Planet pizzas’ thinking about healthy foods and using skills such as cutting, grating and measuring.

PE

In PE the children will be working on their fielding and striking skills through games and then will move onto dance were we will pretend to be explorers. How exciting! Finally we finish our Summer term with Athletics, followed by on overall assessment of our fundamental movement skills ahead of starting KS2!

Music

In music we will be learning about Amazing Abba!. We will be learning about the band and some of their famous songs . We will take part in singing and accurately following a melody; Use our voice and instruments to perform songs.

RE

In RE we will be learning about why we should Spread Good news and learn about Jesus’ Ascension and the Pentecost. We will then focus on rules and the different parts of Mass and practise giving our first confessions. We will then learn about our second other religion ‘Islam’ and learn about the parts of the mosque, prayer and Wudu. Our final topic for the year is ‘Treasures’ we will discuss why God’s world is a treasure and why we are all treasures to God and write our own prayers and Psalms.

Computing

Our online safety topics this half term are privacy & security and copyright & ownership. For our main computing lessons, we will focus on developing our coding skills. We will learn how to programme instructions and ‘debug’ errors in code. We will then use these skills to create own out short stories and games.

P.S.H.E

PSHE in the Summer Term is all about Transition to Key Stage 2. We will also discuss and learn about ‘Family and Relationships’ which includes following our Catholic Curriculum to teach this and NSPCC guidelines.