Class Information
- Children are expected to read at home for pleasure. Reading comment tasks are done in school at 8.45-9.00am daily.
- Spelling and maths champion targets will be sent home on the first Friday of each half term.
- Spellings are tested every Friday: 10 weekly words plus 10 words that the class have spelt incorrectly in past tests.
- PE: the children will be doing PE on Tuesdays and Wednesdays – but PE kits are expected in school Mon-Fri as there are occasional extra PE sessions during the course of the year.
Please ensure all belongings are clearly labelled.
Unit of Inquiry
Transdisciplinary Theme: How We Express Ourselves
Central Idea: People express their culture and beliefs
through Art.
Lines of Inquiry
- How personality, culture, and image can be portrayed in a portrait. (Form)
- Different types and styles of Art: How they are similar and how they differ. (Connection)
- Art that reflects me. (Perspective)
Previous Units
Spring Term 2021/22
Unit of Inquiry
Transdisciplinary Theme: An inquiry into the rights and responsibilities in the struggle to share finite resources with other people and other living things.
Central Idea: Tourism can bring benefits to people, but also cause problems in a local environment.
Lines of Inquiry
- The environmental regions found in North America (Form)
- How the areas of natural beauty are changing due to tourism (Change)
- How people can create sustainable tourism (Responsibility)
Winter Term 2021/22
Unit of Inquiry
Theme: Where we are in place and time
Central Idea: The effects of migration can have an impact upon society.
We will inquire into:
- Main causes of the Industrial Revolution
- Migration as a result of the Industrial Revolution and its impact on the wider society
- Migration in the modern world
- Our families and migration
Autumn Term 2021/22
Unit of Inquiry
Theme: Who we are
Central Idea: The work that charities do can change a person’s life.
We will inquire into:
- What we are taught about charity through different communities
- How charitable organisations are organised
- Causes that charitable organisations support
- Where charities have promoted change to legislation