PE: This will take place every Wednesday and Thursday for the first two weeks of this half term and then Wednesday and Friday from week 3, to accommodate swimming. Please ensure your child comes to school in an appropriate PE kit on these days and on Friday's have their bag containing their swimsuit/swim shorts and two towels.
Our learning this half term will focus around our History unit of: Fire Damp and Davy lamps – Coal mines.
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Reading and Writing
This half term we will be immersing ourselves into Southern France in 1783 through our class text Sky Chasers by Emma Carroll. We are looking forward to studying a book by a famous English author who has won many prizes for her writing and who used to be an English secondary school teacher before becoming a writer.
We will be using our class text and our local nature to inspire us to write some wonderful poetry, including Tanka style poetry which originates from Japan and is categorised by the number of syllables in each line, totalling 31 syllables.
History
How did it feel to work in a coal mine? How has the coal mining industry changed over the years and does it have a future? We will explore these questions and more in this special project about the coal industry and its impact on the UK.
In this project, children will explore:
• the history of coal mining
• mining strikes and their effects on the miners, their families and communities
• the legacy and future of coal mining
Maths
As mathematicians, we will:
be learning about geometry, and statistics including:
- Geometry
Knows how to describe a translation or reflection of a shape, including reference to the axes in the first quadrant.
- Statistics
Knows which representations of data are most appropriate and why using a line graph.
RE
In RE we will be exploring how Christians remember Jesus' Last Supper by:
- Retell the story of the Last Supper and what Jesus said to the disciples
- Understand how the symbols of communion are a way of remembering Jesus and the new agreement of love and forgiveness. Link the service with Jesus’ death and resurrection.
- Know that by sharing communion as a group Christians are showing unity.
- Discuss how the communion service provides a special way for Christians to meet with or reflect on Jesus.
- Explain how the ’new commandment’ makes a difference to the lives of individuals and communities.
- Explain what Christians learn from Jesus’ act of washing His disciples’ feet.
- Explain how communion is linked to the Seder Pesach/Passover meal.
