Welcome to Arts Week!

This week, our learning will revolve around the arts curriculum. We will be focusing on the following subjects: Art, Drama, Music and Dance.

What are we learning this week?

What is our class reading book?

We shall be starting our new class read, which is a fantastic choice for our year group who will be starting secondary school very soon. Can you see me? centres around 11-year-old Tally’s first experiences in her new school. Tally is also autistic and this book, by Libby Scott and Rebecca Westcott, incorporates diary entries from the main character to help the audience emphasise with the way that she views certain events.

Music – 

• To create a jingle on internet to introduce my podcast.
• To create sound effects and voice over for story.
• To retell a story.
• To be able to record a podcast.
• To be able to insert appropriate sound effects.

Drama- 

• To develop empathy with, and understanding of, other people and the confidence needed to assume a role or character.
• To plan and rehearse a traditional tale, with a twist.
• To work co-operatively with others.
• To offer and receive constructive criticism.

RE/Art – 

We shall be taking part in the Spirited Arts competition. Our focus this year is, ‘A view of the world’.

Science – 

• To identify how animals have adapted to suit their environment in different ways and that adaption may lead to evolution.

RHE – 

Our learning intentions are:

• I can explain how girls’ and boys’ bodies change during puberty and understand the  importance of looking after yourself physically and emotionally.
• I can express how I feel about the changes that will happen to me during puberty.

Other foundation subjects taught this week:

Art, Spanish, and PE.

What are we learning this week?

English – 

This week, we shall be introducing Orange for the Sunsets, by Tina Athaide, into our English lessons.

Our learning objectives this week are:

• To write an informal letter
• To retell the key events of a story
• To write a formal letter
• To create an engaging blurb for our core text
• To write a newspaper report
• To write a poem
• To use key vocabulary from my core text to create an engaging wordsearch

What is our class reading book?

We shall be starting our new class read, which is a fantastic choice for our year group who will be starting secondary school very soon. Can you see me? centres around 11-year-old Tally’s first experiences in her new school. Tally is also autistic and this book, by Libby Scott and Rebecca Westcott, incorporates diary entries from the main character to help the audience emphasise with the way that she views certain events.

Maths – 

• To describe the relationship between two factors (in a ratio context)
• To use multiplication and division to calculate unknown values (two variables)
• To use multiplication and division to calculate unknown values (three variables)
• To explain how to use a ratio grid to calculate unknown values
• To explain how to use multiplication to solve correspondence problems
• To use their knowledge of multiplication and division to solve scaling problems in a range of contexts​

Science – 

• To identify how animals have adapted to suit their environment in different ways and that adaption may lead to evolution.

RE – 

We shall be looking at the unit of pilgrimage.

RHE – 

Our learning intentions are:

• I am aware of my own self-image and how my body image fits into that.
• I know how to develop my own self esteem.

PE – 

This term, we are working on co-ordination and static balance.

Other foundation subjects taught this week:

Art, Spanish, and PE.