Please have a look at the curriculum overviews for the half-terms to see what we are learning.  Remember to pop back at the end of each term to celebrate with us.

Celebrating Summer 1

It has been a short term but we have certainly managed to achieve a lot!

Our geography topic has introduced us to Kampong Ayer, the world’s largest water village.  We have enjoyed comparing and contrasting the geography of Kampong Ayer with that of our local area.  Our learning informed our English lessons in which we have written to the Sultan of Brunei in an attempt to persuade him to end deforestation.  We even channelled our inner rainforest animals to prepare and conduct interviews to gain an animal’s perspective of deforestation!

Our maths has focussed on fractions where we have been applying our learning to practical situations and noticing how, again, our times-table knowledge is so important.

The weather has been kind to us so we have been mastering the skills needed for cricket, specifically batting, bowling and fielding.  This has been great fun and we are looking forward to continuing to develop these skills as we progress through the school.

Art this half term has focussed on portraits, from line-drawing through to creating Andy Warhol Pop Art inspired self-portraits.

We ended the half term we Science Week, where we were ‘Materials Detectives’ and were set to work investigating the property and suitability of different materials.  Our challenge was to investigate the most suitable materials to build a marble run from along with the additional challenge of seeing how close to a 15 second run we could achieve. As part of Science Week, we were delighted to welcome Year 4 pupils from Chafyn Grove School who demonstrated the properties of different materials, plus helped us to investigate the light spectrum.  Our trip to the Year 6 Science Fair along with a session with the Science Boffins made for an interesting and exciting end of term!