Topic/Learning Context

Our Learning Context for this term will centre around our Topic of Light and Electricity. We have already started conducting experiments and learning facts and vocabulary associated with light. Over the term we aim to:

• Explore reflections from different surfaces and describe the images.
• Explain how shadows are formed and also how they vary in length depending on the direction of the light source in relation to the object.
• Develop understanding of how visible light can be split into the seven colours of the spectrum.
• Explain what the three primary colours of light are and through practical investigations describe what happens when combinations of these are mixed.
• Use our knowledge of the properties of light to show how it can be used in a creative way.
• Use a range of electrical components to help make a variety of circuits.
• Use symbols to represent the components in a variety of circuits.
• Describe the transfer of energy around an electrical circuit.
• Discuss how batteries work.

Core Literacy

• Continue to improve our written work and story writing skills through focussing on some of the technical aspects of our writing, for example punctuation and grammar, as well as maintain the development of engaging our readers through word choice and sentence structure.
• Develop and produce a variety of Functional writing e.g. reports, recounts, procedures and instructions.
• Continue to work on comprehension skills during our Reading, Language and Interdisciplinary activities.
• Continue to learn spelling rules and participate in a variety of activities to promote and help develop our spelling.

Core Numeracy

• Consolidate an understanding of place value – that the individual digits that form a number each have a value.
• Use the 4 basic number processes to solve a range of written and mental problems.
• To further work on all multiplication tables and develop memory skills for these.
• Investigate some simple angles and develop a working vocabulary.