We will take a journey to South Africa in Autumn Term. In English, we will be developing our descriptive writing skills, using the book ‘Gorilla’ by Anthony Browne as our inspiration. We will discover lots of new and interesting facts about the continent of Africa including the different animals that live in, the climate, geographical features and the culture.
Then, we will take a step back in time to The Victorian Era. We will spend time exploring what it would have been like to live as a child in the Victorian times as well as researching about Queen Victoria. The children will learn about what school were like for the children and about the different jobs they would have had. Excitingly, the children will be invited to dress up as Victorian school child and live out a Victorian school day.
In Maths, the children will be re-establishing their understanding of place value as well as focusing on numbers up to and beyond 1000. After this, the children will then concentrate on developing their addition and subtraction methods.
We are luckily enough to start our year of science, looking at the environment around us, before studying Light and Shadows. The children will learn all about different light sources and about how shadows are formed.
In other curriculum areas, the children will secure their knowledge about colour and create their very own Maasi warrior Art as well as start their journey in learning French. The children will also spend time developing their understanding of how important it is to stay safe online and begin learning about the input and output of a computer system.
To see what the children will be learning, please click here to view the Year 3 English curriculum, the Year 3 maths curriculum and Year 3 science curriculum. Details regarding other subject lessons can be viewed in our wider curriculum progression documents. Our Music action plans for 2024-2025 can be viewed here.
At White Meadows Primary we use the Read Write Inc. phonics programme across both Key Stages up to Year 3. This phonics scheme provides a systematic approach to literacy, both reading and writing, which is fun and engaging. This is supplemented with the use of phonetically decodable books from Oxford Reading Tree and the Phonic Bug schemes, along with a range of other texts. Further details on how you can support your child can be found on the Read Write Inc website, www.ruthmiskin.com.
In addition to the above programme, we also use the Big Write and Big Maths schemes and Little Big Maths in Foundation Stage.
Parents are welcome to approach class teachers to find out more about the curriculum at White Meadows. The following links give more details of the Early Years and National Curriculum.
https://www.gov.uk/early-years-foundation-stage
https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/national-curriculum
During the first week of the term, we will be settling the children by completing a PSHE unit based around the book ‘An Emotional Menagerie’, a book of poetry about emotions. We will then get stuck into our topic for the term, which is all about the Romans. We will find out when they lived, how they lived and what they did that was so amazing. We will end the half term with a trip to Fishbourne Roman Palace where the children will get a hands on experience of what live was like in Roman times.
During the second half of the term, we will be studying Volcanoes, with a focus on the volcano in Pompeii and what happened when this erupted many years ago. They will also study other volcanoes around the world
In Maths lessons, we will continue learning about place value and number, moving on to using the four operations to solve calculations and learning more about length and perimeter. Throughout the year there will be a strong focus on times tables so that we are ready for our multiplication tables check later in the year.
In Science, we will be learning all about teeth and digestion, finding out what happens to the food in our bodies. We will identify the types of teeth we have and how to keep them clean and healthy.
To see what the children will be learning, please click here to view the Year 4 English curriculum, the Year 4 maths curriculum and the Year 4 science curriculum. Details regarding other subject lessons can be viewed in our wider curriculum progression documents. Our Music action plans for 2024-2025 can be viewed here.
Parents are welcome to approach class teachers to find out more about the curriculum at White Meadows. The following link gives more details of the National Curriculum.
https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/national-curriculum
5, 4, 3, 2, 1 – we have lift off! Year 5 begin the year blasting off into space! We will find out about all the different planets in our solar system and how they move throughout the year. We will find out how day turns into night and how the moon moves relative to the earth. We will also find out about famous astronauts such as Neil Armstrong. We end the half term with a trip by train to Chichester Planetarium where we will get a better look at the different planets and what makes up or solar system.
After half term, our topic is history based all about the stone Age. This period of prehistory in Britain generally refers to the time before written records began. It begins when the earliest hunter-gatherers came to Britain from Europe around 450,000 BC and ends with the invasion of the Romans in AD 43.
In Maths we begin Year 5 learning more about place value and then move onto the four operations and fractions. In foundation subjects we will play netball and develop our gymnastics skills, continue to perfect our swimming styles, learn about computer systems and networks, develop our artistic skills as we find out about the artist Peter Thorpe, find out about the religions of Islam and learn about melody and harmony.
To see what the children will be learning, please click here to view the Year 5 English curriculum, the Year 5 maths curriculum or the Year 5 science curriculum. Details regarding other subject lessons can be viewed in our wider curriculum progression documents. Our Music action plans for 2024-2025 can be viewed here.
Parents are welcome to approach class teachers to find out more about the curriculum at White Meadows. The following link gives more details of the National Curriculum.
https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/national-curriculum
This half term in Year 6 we will be looking at play scripts, narrative writing and rhyming couplet poetry, focusing in particular on the works of William Shakespeare. Combining drama and art, we hope the children will be inspired to write some wonderful pieces of work, while learning the key skills needed for writing in Year 6. In maths, we will be working on place value, addition and subtraction and multiplication and division. In science, we will be looking at classifying animals and micro-organisms. After half term in Year 6, we are working on story writing, in our topic “Once upon a story”. We will be writing character and setting descriptions and learning to use cohesive links to structure our stories. We will be looking at extracts from ‘The Lorax’ and ‘Dracula’. We will also be looking at parables in RE and illustrations in books and stories.
To see what the children will be learning, please click here to view the Year 6 English curriculum, the Year 6 maths curriculum or the Year 6 science curriculum. Details regarding other subject lessons can be viewed in our wider curriculum progression documents. Our Music action plans for 2024-2025 can be viewed here.
Parents are welcome to approach class teachers to find out more about the curriculum at White Meadows. The following link gives more details of the National Curriculum.
https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/national-curriculum
