What are we learning about?

This term we will be learning about our planet and the environmental changes that have happened in the past, are currently occurring now and might affect it in the future. We will be planning, leading and managing an eco week for the whole school, taking responsibility for publicity, running events and blogging about them..

ENGLISH

This term we will be watching the short film “Replay” and responding to it through a variety of writing genres.  In Guided Reading, we will be looking at the text “Rabbits” by Shaun Tann, which looks at the environmental devastation caused by invaders.  We will also use what we have learnt this term, to deliver a speech to our class to persuade people to look after our planet.

MATHS

Place value – solving problems

Multiplication – prime numbers, squared and cubed numbers

Data handling – linked to science week

Geometry – reflection and translation of shapes

Learning opportunities

• Eco week – children will produce advertisements and leaflets for eco week and the activities: we will use computing equipment for this.
• Writing a speech to deliver to peers about the importance of looking after our planet.
• Children to deliver an assembly to the school to raise awareness of eco-issues.
• In Design Technology, children will be designing and making a toy with a cam mechanism.

How can you help? Can you find out:

Research about recycling – what activities could the school do for Eco week?

Practise and discuss spellings with children.

Practise recall of tables and division facts.

Home learning project: is it people who are the problem?