Key questions for this area of learning:
How old is the water that you drink?
Where does water come from?
Who were the Anglo Saxons?
What have the Anglo Saxons done for us?
Science:
Why does the mirror steam up after a
shower?
How does it rain?
These are a couple of questions we will find
out when we look at the Water Cycle.
Key Vocabulary
Water Cycle
Precipitation
Physical Education:
We may be the
reason for bad
weather. We will
be performing a
rain dance in PE.
History:
This half term, we will be
studying the Anglo Saxons. We
will looking at the impact they
have made on life today as well
as finding out about Sutton Hoo.
Music:
The children will be creating
their own compositions which
have a water theme to them.
Computing:
‘Scratch’ ‘Sprite’ and ‘Command
Block’ are some of the
terminology that we will be
using during our coding work
this half term.
Opportunities for English:
‘We are following the Leader, Leader,
Leader’ when we look at the Pied Piper
of Hamlin.
We will also be creating an
information text about the Water
Cycle and how it all works.
Religious Education:
This half term the children we
learning about Judaism and will
be looking at Passover.
Design and technology:
We will be using a variety of
materials in order to create a
model river.
Condensation
Evaporation
Anglo Saxons
Runes
Sutton Hoo
Bayeux Tapestry
Opportunities for Maths:
Art:
We will be creating
some Anglo Saxon
pictures using Runes.
French:
In French this half
term we will be
saying colours that
are useful for
describing hair and
eyes.
We are pretty certain that we are
going to get a little bit of rainfall and
it may get a little bit chilly over the
next half term. We will use this to
create rainfall and temperature
graphs. We will using shape
knowledge to create nets of Anglo
Saxon buildings.
Visits, visitors or key events
Home learning ideas/places to visit
As part of the school linking project we will be visiting the
Madlho Youth Centre as well as the Oldham Colosseum.
The children have their own Scratch accounts, so it will be very interesting
to see what creations they can make at home. Speaking of creations, can
the children create a model at home based on the Anglo Saxons?
Scratch
Sprite
Judaism