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Summer Term 1

Welcome back! We hope you all had a lovely Easter with your family and friends. We had a fantastic Spring term: Our Kapla day and school trip to Arundel Castle were particular highlights. Thankfully, Belinda the dragon has been returned to West Sussex Dragon Agency and our detective work is over!

Last half term, we learnt about key concepts such as power, protection, strength and responsibility. We debated questions such as ‘Whose responsibility was the fire, Farriner or Bludworth?’, ‘What gives a community strength and how has this changed over time? and ‘Which castle has the most protection: A Motte and Bailey or a concentric castle?’.

We have an equally exciting Summer term, with a South American party, a forest school day, growing our own butterflies and writing to a South American Pen pal.

Summer 1 Term Topic: Discover - "If the world could speak, what would it say?"

We will be learning to:

Compare and contrast the size and scale of the Amazon rainforest to the Angmering woods
Identify some of the physical and human features in South America
Understand what life is like in South America
Explain the consequences of deforestation and think of ways we can prevent it

Our project concepts for this half term are stewardship, sacrifice, consequences and influence.

English Learning

In English, we will be reading:

‘The boy who spoke to the earth’
‘This moose belongs to me’
‘Lost words’

We will be learning about how to write for a variety of purposes and audiences:

Narratives
Recounts
Post cards
Poems

We will be continuing to practise a range of skills such as paragraphs, contractions and rule of three. We will be learning new skills such as:

Superlatives (comparison language such as largest)
1^st, 2^nd and 3^rd person
Brackets for adding extra information
Commas in a list

Mathematical Learning

This half term we are looking at measurement:

Length and height:

Measure in cm and m, remembering to place the object at 0
Compare and order lengths
Solve problems using the four operations

Capacity:

Measure in ml and l
Compare and order capacities
Solve problems using the four operations

Mass:

Measure weight in g and kg
Compare and order objects from lightest to heaviest
Solve problems using the four operations

Temperature:

Reading temperatures on a thermometer
Compare temperatures
Solve addition and subtraction problems

PSHE Learning

We will be finishing our topic about the local community: Learning about rules outside school, caring for the school and local environment and exploring the roles people have within the local community.

Scientific Learning

Our topic this half term will be plants:

We will learn about:

The life cycle of plants
What seeds of made of and what conditions they need to grow into plants
The parts of a plant, including those that we eat

Music Learning

We will be learning the song ‘I want to play in a band’. They will learn how to play, improvise and compose appraise rock songs.

Faith and Wonder Learning

We are learning about the Jewish faith.

We will learn:

about their holy book, the Torah
the special rules that the Jews follow to look after it
about the festival of Simchat Torah.

Computing Learning

We will be exploring programming by learning how to recognise and create a loop and use code to follow and create an algorithm. We will then create an animation of an animal moving using the program Scratch Jr.

PE Learning

This half term, we will be focusing on dance, learning a traditional May Day dance routine which we will film. We will also be practising the skills of throwing, catching and bouncing a ball, individually and in small-sided games.

How can you help?

Continuing to read regularly at home to an adult, with lots of discussion about the books
Supporting your child with learning their spellings, discussing the meanings of words, putting them into sentences and reviewing spellings from previous weeks
Continuing to play Numbots at home