WRITING:

We will use the See Think Wonder writing framework to develop sentence writing skills. Pupils will be encouraged to use a variety of sentence starters and conjunctions to make their writing more interesting. Some pupils will progress to writing a number of linked sentences to create a paragraph. Pupils will learn about the difference between fact and opinion.

SPELLING & PHONICS:

Children will continue to practise spelling patterns through group activities. Spelling words will be included with homework each week for them to practise at home using a choice of different writing activities. A Friday morning spelling test will encourage pupils to improve their scores as the term progresses.

READING:

To link with our topic, we will be reading ‘Space Band’ by Tom Fletcher as our class novel. We will focus on comprehension skills and children will be encouraged to learn from the author’s style to develop their own descriptive writing skills.

Pupils will be reading increasingly challenging texts with their reading groups and will take a book home every week for extra practise. This will allow them to develop their reading aloud skills. Some will continue to learn sight words by practising their word walls and others will work with a reading buddy for additional practice to encourage fluency. We will continue to have regular visits to the school library.

LISTENING & TALKING:

Talking and listening skills will be developed through our Space topic. The children will be encouraged to listen to a range of informative texts and videos and use what they have heard to develop their understanding and formulate opinions.

NUMERACY:

Children will continue to build on their understanding of addition and subtraction using the strategies learned in Terms 1 and 2. This term, our focus will move towards multiplication. Children will explore a range of strategies, including counting on, arrays and partitioning, to help them solve multiplication problems.

Times tables will be practised regularly during mental maths sessions and reinforced through numeracy homework building confidence particularly around the 2, 3, 5, 9- and 10-times tables. We will also develop children’s understanding of the relationship between multiplication and division.

We shall also be learning about division and looking at the link between multiplication and division to help us solve problems.

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MATHEMATICS:

Maths skills will be developed through links with our topic on Space.

Measure:

Children will learn to measure length, weight and capacity and decide which type of measurement is most appropriate. They will record their measurements using the correct standard units, including metres (m), centimetres (cm), kilograms (kg), litres (l) and millilitres (ml).

Children will estimate the length, weight and capacity of everyday objects and then measure them to compare their estimates with actual measurements. We will also link this learning to time, measuring how long activities take and relating this to our daily timetables.

Time:

Children will learn to tell the time using both analogue and digital clocks. They will practise reading o’clock, half past, quarter past and quarter to on both formats.

As part of our interdisciplinary learning, we will also explore seasons, days in a year and how these are affected by the Earth’s rotation and orbit around the sun. Children will be briefly introduced to the concept of time zones.

Children will take part in weekly outdoor PE sessions on the MUGA, focusing on hockey, football and handball. Pupils will develop new skills in each sport, learning how to control their movements while adapting to changes in speed and direction.

They will also experience playing different roles within games, helping them to understand the qualities of being a good team player and to develop positive sportsmanship.

On non-planned PE days, children will participate in the McLean Mile, which will be used as a brain break and to help promote daily physical activity.

Indoor PE

During Term 3, our focus will be on judo and gymnastics. These activities will help develop coordination, spatial awareness, confidence and resilience in a fun and engaging way.

Gymnastics will be taught through judo-based movements, as judo is a martial art that promotes self-defence and teaches a range of controlled movements and techniques. Throughout the term, children will continue to develop skills in balance, spatial awareness and movement control.

Health

This term, children will focus on learning about their emotions using Emotion Works. We will explore different emotion words and discuss what each emotion looks and feels like, as well as identifying triggers that can lead to these emotions.

Children will learn and practise strategies to help manage their emotions and will be encouraged to recognise and respond to emotions in others. We will also continue learning about children’s rights as part of our Rights Respecting School journey.

Space

This term the children will be Intergalactic Space Explorers as we learn all about Space. Through scientific texts and videos, supported by engaging hands-on activities and experiments, we will investigate the Earth and its place in the Solar System.

We will research the patterns of movement of the sun and moon to support our understanding of how they relate to the length of a day, month and year on Earth. We will learn about some of the key events in history which have contributed to the development of Space travel and meet some of the significant individuals from history who have been important in forming our understanding of our Solar System.

As the characters in our class novel travel through space and encounter alien life forms, we will discuss the validity of different forms of evidence and the extent to which they can be trusted.