Class Teacher

Mrs Sullivan

Spring Term 2025  

We are becoming Geo Wanderers and looking at the reasons people choose to settle in specific areas around the UK and beyond. We shall then be exploring natural disasters and the reasons the Earth experiences volcanic eruptions and earthquakes.   
This links well to our science topics, where we shall be investigating how we hear sounds and then moving onto understanding how electricity is created, including renewable sources and making electrical circuits.  
In English, we shall be reading some wonderful books, such as The Firework-Maker's Daughter by Philip Pullman and the classic fairytale, The Selfish Giant by Oscar Wilde. We will continue to develop writing skills to create a range of different texts, from diary entries to story sequels.  
Maths will continue to focus on multiplication and division with 3-digit by 1-digit numbers, before moving onto length & perimeter with rectilinear shapes and regular polygons. Then converting improper fractions into mixed numbers and finally dividing using decimals.
We also have the police visiting tomorrow to discuss how policing has changed over the years, which finishes our Crime and Punishment topic but also introduces our PSHE topic of belonging to a community and shared responsibilities.

Autumn Term 2024

This term, we shall learn all about the Romans and the expansion of the Roman Empire. Researching significant events such as Boudicca’s Rebellion and how they built a network of roads around the UK. 

Following the Literacy Tree scheme in English, we shall be starting the term by reading Tar Beach by Faith Ringgold learning all about freedom and writing some lovely poetry inspired by the book. Finishing the term with Iron Man by Ted Hughes and writing a very exciting mystery narrative. 
In Maths, we will be securing place value knowledge before moving onto using all four operations (addition, subtraction, multiplication and division) to answer more complex questions and problem-solving. There will also be a focus on learning all the 12 x 12 times tables throughout the year to help in all aspects of maths learning. We shall be investigating states of matter in science, to understand what variables can cause some materials to change states. This will be done through experimentation and evaluating our findings to see how we can prove our findings.  

We shall be practising skills in sports such as basketball as well as fitness activities to keep healthy and talking about friendships and how to be ready, respectful and safe.