Topic/Learning Context
Our Learning Context for this term will be:
Natural Disasters
We will be looking at various natural disasters and extreme weather systems. We will the impact these events have on the people whose lives are affected by them and the impact they have on the economy and the landscape. We will also be learning about the impact Climate Change is having on these systems and what our responsibilities are.
Health and Wellbeing
We will be learning about:
- Friendships, relationships and families
- Physical and emotional changes during puberty
- Body image and self-worth/emotional wellbeing
- Menstruation, reproduction, pregnancy and birth
- Correct vocabulary for male and female body parts including reproductive organs
- Maintaining a healthy body/personal hygiene
- Risk awareness of keeping myself safe
- Parenting and responsibility, caring for a child/baby
Literacy
We will be:
- Learning about persuasive features of texts
- Learning to write persuasively using emotive language
- Learn note taking skills and how to effectively skim and scan for information.
- Continue to improve our written work and story writing skills through focusing on some of the technical aspects of our writing, for example, creating plots, settings and character descriptions.
- Continue to work on comprehension skills during our Reading and Language skills through our class novels.
- Continue to learn spelling rules, topic related words and high frequency words to help develop our spelling.
Core Numeracy
- Continue to develop our Mental Maths and problem solving skills.
- Learn how to identify types of angles and how to use a protractor to calculate the measurement of an angle
- Investigating common units and different ways to measure time/speed against each other.
- Continue to develop our Money skills will focusing on budgets and strategies to solve money problems.
- Working on calculating durations of time and reading timetables
RME
- We will be learning about Christianity and the link between belief systems and how that impacts their outlook on living their lives.
