Sycamore Class

Reading

In Whole Class Reading lessons we will be exploring new vocabulary in a variety of texts including non-fiction, narrative and poetry. We will be using the Reading Vipers to interrogate the texts further.

In our topic lessons we will be reading Norse Myths.

Writing

In our English lessons, this term, we will be focusing on writing stories. Our skills focuses will include: creating a setting, including a character description, dialogue adding and developing atmosphere.

In our topic lessons we will be writing poetry in the form of a ‘Kenning’ and a story or diary entry based on living in Anglo Saxon times.

Maths

In Maths lessons we will be focusing on place value, rounding, and using negative numbers in context. We will then move onto revising mental and written strategies for the four operations.

In our topic lessons we will be converting measurements to find distances travelled by the Vikings, investigating negative numbers by researching the temperatures of countries around the World, looking at symmetry and using protractors to create Anglo Saxon brooch designs.

Reading

In Reading we will be exploring new vocabulary in a variety of texts including non-fiction, narrative and poetry.

In our topic lessons we will be reading a variety of fiction and non-fiction books relating to Space, including ‘The Jamie Drake Equation’ by Christopher Edge and ‘Phoenix’ by S.F. Said.

Writing

In our English lessons this term we will be focusing on writing non-chronological reports. We will be basing our writing on ‘Pandora’.

In our topic lessons we will be writing a persuasive letter and explanation.

Maths

In Maths we will be focusing on position and direction, fractions, decimals and percentages. In our topic work we will be making links to other strands of maths including temperature, time and measurement.