English

During our English lessons in the Autumn term, we look warning stories, information texts, explanation texts and change stories. We use model texts each time to show us what a good example is and to demonstrate the appropriate vocabulary and structure for us to use in our own writing. Grammar, spelling and punctuation work is embedded in our standard English lessons as well as being revisited in morning and afternoon work throughout the week.

Guided Reading

Our class text throughout the term is Street Child by Berlie Doherty which is centred around the main character, Jim Jarvis, and his life in Victorian London. To further our understanding of both Jim's story and life at the time, we also look, briefly, at the sequel Far From Home to discover what could have happened to Jim's family. This story inspires our research and writing about Dr Barnardo and the impact that he had on the lives of pauper children in Victorian Britain as well as his legacy. 

Maths

This term we will be completing Chapter 1 of our ‘Maths No Problem’ - place value focusing on reading and writing numbers to 1,000,000, rounding numbers to the nearest hundred thousand, ten thousand, thousand and hundreds, comparing numbers using < and > and ordering numbers from greatest to smallest and vice versa.

Chapter 2 will focus on the four operations – multiplying, dividing, addition and subtraction. We will be covering multiplying and dividing 4-digit numbers and using our arithmetic skills to solve simple and complex word problems.

Science

Forces: In this unit we will look at gravity and how it works. We will study the effect of water resistance, air resistance, friction and how to measure force with a newton meter. This unit involves us looking carefully at how investigations are planned with consideration to controlled variables and fair testing.

The history topic for the Autumn term is 'Victorian Britain'.

We explore the Industrial Revolution and how this impacted life in Britain at the time and to this day. We will study the impact of the railways creating a network across the country as well as looking at how machinery changed the production industry.

We believe that it is important to learn about our History topic through a variety of tasks and experiences to embed key skills across the wider curriculum.  We want to engage learners in a practical and purposeful way so that children have fun learning opportunities that aid lifelong learning.  Some of the activities that we will complete this term include:

        * Researching the Industrial Revolution;

        * Mapping out journeys to different towns throughout the UK.

Geography

In our Geography unit during the Autumn term, we study the Amazon Rainforest. The unit begins by explaining the difference between a temperate and tropical rainforest and the distribution of these rainforests. Then we focus on the Amazon rainforest – the largest rainforest in the world - locating it within the South American continent and focusing on the countries which sit within it. We then use geographical and scientific vocabulary to describe the physical features of the Amazon and list some tropical rainforest food products.

RE

During this half term, we are looking at the way that people express their faith. This means that we reflect on a collection of symbols and artefacts to consider what they say about the person who uses them, and on the feelings that different forms of religious expression create, such as joy, hope, unity, belonging and peace. By the end of the unit, pupils will recognise different forms of spiritual and religious expression within and

between religions and denominations.