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Miss Glover

Teacher

Mr Anderton

Teacher

Mrs Roy

Teaching Assistant

Mrs Eccott

SEN Teaching Assistant

Mrs Kroll

SEN Teaching Assistant

Mrs Mirreh

SEN Teaching Assistant

Mrs Nicholls

SEN Teaching Assistant

Mrs Sprague

SEN Teaching Assistant

Mr Handley

Interventions Teacher

Mrs Clayton

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  Our PE days are a Monday (weeks 4, 5 & 6) and  Wednesday.

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Our book change day is a Wednesday.

Our class book is:

Dragon Mountain by Katie & Kevin Tsang

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Term 4 Summary

This term we are moving on to an exciting new geography unit. We will be learning all about rainforests. We will be exploring questions such as: Where in the world are tropical rainforests? What is the Amazon rainforest like? What is the Amazon rainforest like? How are rainforests changing? How are rainforests changing? How is our local woodland used?  We will be visiting our local area and analysing our findings.

Alongside this, we will be having our second set of forest school sessions. We cannot wait to be back exploring the forest and cooking up some fire cooked meals.

In PE we will be looking at developing our skipping skills inside. Outside we will be working on our striking and fielding.

Term 3 Summary

This term we are moving on to an exciting new Science unit. We will be learning all about electricity, looking at where it comes from, how it is used and how we can make a complete circuit. To end this unit, we will be designing and making our own buzzer games. Alongside this, we will be looking at our History topic on ‘How have children’s lives changed?’ We will be exploring questions such as:

What do sources tell us about how children’s lives have changed? Why did Tudor children work and what was it like?What jobs did Victorian children have in England and what were they like? How did Lord Shaftesbury help to change the lives of children? How and why has children’s leisure time changed? What were the diseases children caught and how were they treated?

In PE we will be looking at developing our gymnastic skills as well as continuing with our outdoor sessions. We also have some fun Ukulele lessons coming up in music! 

Term 2 Summary

This term we are continuing to focus our Topic work on Bristol. We will look more in depth about the Slave Trade and the part Bristol played in this. As we have learnt all about Clifton Suspension Bridge, we will be printing our very own versions using rollers and polystyrene. As part of our PE, we will have a mixture of yoga and invasion games. We are really excited to be starting our rock climbing lessons at St Werburghs. We have some great writing units coming up. We will be writing a newspaper report on the short film ‘The Lighthouse Keeper’ and will also be writing our own Haikus and Cinquains to publish in a class book. We look forward to all the Christmas activities this term will bring including our Christmas writing unit, Christmas singing and our DT unit making our own mini stockings.

Term 1 Summary

Our topic this term is ‘Bristol: then and now’’ and it will have a geography and history emphasis. 

Our key Questions are:

Who is Brunel and what did he design?

What affect has Brunel had on Bristol?

What did Brunel invent?

How are bridges designed?

Key vocab:suspension, Brunel, bridge, engineer, Bristol, railway

Alongside this, some of the other things we will be doing are learning about the Jewish faith, looking at science and ‘States of Matter’ and singing some new songs using our online ‘Sing Up’ scheme for Music.

This term also sees our first Forest School and swimming weeks.