Spring term curriculum overview

Celebrating Spring Term 1

We enjoyed allowing our creativity to run wild as we spent time writing imaginative, setting descriptions of mysterious and wonderful lands, and practising our oracy skills.  We had to adapt to a completely new style of writing when we had to produce precise instructions detailing how to make fruit skewers – which we designed and produced as part of our design and technology learning.  We had first-hand experience of what can go wrong if instructions aren’t clear when our first attempts were followed in to make a jam sandwich…watching jam butter being spread on the table by hand because we forgot to explain that a knife and plate was required certainly focused our minds!

In maths we completed our unit learning about money with lots of practical application of calculating change and working out how much shopping we could afford! We are now getting on well with learning about multiplication and division which we will be continuing with next half term.

We hope that you will enjoy looking at examples of our science work, where we have been exploring what different animals need to thrive and survive. We have also looked at our own lives thinking about healthy eating, exercise and hygiene.

In gymnastics we have looked at shape and balance and how to incorporate these in different ways on a variety of apparatus. Whilst in ‘Target games’ we have been refining our skills and balancing power with accuracy – we particularly enjoyed applying this to tri-golf skills.

We welcomed a visitor to our RE lessons to help us further understand life as a Muslim and answer some of our questions about the Islamic faith – please have a look at our photos.

Our second visitor was ‘Farmer Chris’ from a local arable farm, who kindly helped us in our quest to answer our geography enquiry question about where our food comes from and the impact that climate has on farming.

There have been many other highlights, including the visiting pantomime at the very beginning of the term, World Faith Day and our participation in 'SuperKind' to name but a few!