This half-term in History, we will be focusing our learning on finding out how the medical breakthroughs of the last two hundred and fifty years affected the lives of people in Britain.

In English, we will be looking at the book ‘The Whale’, which is a wordless picture book by Ethan and Vita Murrow about two sightings of the great spotted whale, both by pairs of children. The book takes us to the present day, where two children decide separately to try and spot the whale. We follow their adventure, capturing their emotions and sensory experiences and, when the two boats collide in a storm, their thoughts and conversation. The sequence of learning culminates in children writing a film pitch for The Whale, focusing on vividly capturing the setting, atmosphere and emotions to secure funding to make a movie.

Our maths work will first focus on angles, where we will be learning how to classify and measure angles accurately, moving on to unit conversion and measuring volume and capacity.

In our DT lessons we will be making our own bolognese. Will be exploring where our food comes from, explaining the farm-to-fork process and analysing nutritional food content. We will be then creating our own bolognese, making a developed recipe and packaging. 

Coach Josh will be teaching us PE on Wednesdays and in our Friday PE lessons we will be  orienteering which will develop our problem-solving skills, communication and teamwork.

In Spanish we will be exploring Spain and discover where we would like to live in Spain, through use of the familiar language and common spelling that we may recognise using strategies to help us remember and then apply the pronunciation rules to be able to develop our Spanish language production.

Mr Martin and Mrs Higson will be in school on Friday mornings to continue developing our music skills and preparing us for the music performances that are planned for later in the year.

We have a lot to look forward to this half term, so please visit this page regularly to see our learning journey.