This week is Autism Awareness Week. Please visit https://www.autism.org.uk/advice-and-guidance/what-is-autism for more information.

Our learning objectives this week are:

English – Writing and editing a playscript and engaging in Book Talk.

Maths – We shall be continuing to consolidate our learning up until half term. We shall be recapping the learning objectives taught so far this half term.

Science – We shall be identifying characteristics of different types of animals.

PE – Each week we shall have a Fitness and an Athletics session.

What are we studying in English?

For this unit, we shall be using a range of different adaptations to understand the story of Macbeth.

Key dates

31st March – Last day of term.

19th April – Return to school.

Our learning objectives this week are:

English – Identifying the key features of a play script, evaluating the key features of a play script, editing and up-levelling an existing playscript and planning our very own play script. How exciting!

Maths – We shall be consolidating our learning up until half term. We shall be recapping the learning objectives taught so far this half term.

Science – We shall be researching Carl Linnaeus.

PE – Each week we shall have a Fitness and an Athletics session.

RE – We shall be learning about Good Friday and Easter Day.

Geography – We shall be looking at the physical geography of Japan.

RHE – We shall be continuing our learning about puberty.

What are we studying in English?

For this unit, we shall be using a range of different adaptations to understand the story of Macbeth.

What is our class reading book?

Since we are studying the Shakespeare classic Macbeth, we have decided to read from a collection of Shakespeare short stories, by Andrew Matthews.

This week, we shall specifically be focusing on Romeo and Juliet. We shall also be using modern retellings (English KS2 / KS3: ‘Romeo and Juliet’ by William Shakespeare – (animation) – BBC Teach and Gnomeo and Juliet) to help us understand the storyline and draw comparisons.