Lower Key Stage 2
Frenchwood Community Primary School – Parent Overview | ||
This is what your child will be learning this half term | ||
Cycle B | Y3/4 | Spring 2 |
English | In this term, children will read a selection of dilemma stories where the characters often struggle to make the right choice. Children will discuss what they might do in the same situations before planning and writing their own narratives based on an innovated problem. In non-fiction, children will read and explore a range of persuasive adverts and examine the techniques writers use to persuade us. They will then plan, write and evaluate their own persuasive adverts or leaflets on a product or type of food. | |
Maths | Year 3: 2D shape. Addition, Subtraction and Statistics Fractions Position and Direction. Time Year 4: Addition and subtraction. 2D shape and shaping Position and direction. Areas. Measures | |
Science | Animals including humans. Your child will learn to describe the simple functions of the basic parts of the digestive system in humans. Children will Identify the different types of teeth and their functions. Children will develop their skills of research and create models of the digestive system. Further to this, children will classify and identify animals using their teeth. | |
PE | Indoor – Gymnastics 2 Outdoor - OAA – Trust and Trails | |
History Geography | Are all settlements the same? Exploring different types of settlements, land use, and the difference between urban and rural. Children describe the different human and physical features in their local area and make land use comparisons with New Delhi. | |
Computing | Data and information – Data Logging In this unit, pupils will consider how and why data is collected over time. Pupils will consider the senses that humans use to experience the environment and how computers can use special input devices called sensors to monitor the environment. Pupils will collect data as well as access data captured over long periods of time. | |
Art or DT | Mechanical systems : Mechanical cars Pupils build three prototype mechanical cars and select the best features to design their final product: a mechanical car kit. They create design criteria, conduct competitor market research and act as customers to provide feedback. | |
PSHE | Healthy Me Know how different friendship groups are formed and how they fit into them • Know which friends they value most • Know that there are leaders and followers in groups • can take on different roles according to the situation • Know the facts about smoking, its effects on health and the reasons some people start to smoke • Know the facts about alcohol and its effects on health, particularly the liver • Know some of the reasons some people drink alcohol • Know ways to resist when people are putting pressure on them • Know what they think is right and wrong | |
Music | Charanga – Blackbird. All the learning in this unit is focused around one song: Blackbird by The Beatles - a song about civil rights. Children will perform the song and improvise using C, D and E on a glockenspiel. | |
RE | Christianity – This term we will study the Holy Spirit, the gifts of the Spirit and the Christian festival of Pentecost. | |
MFL | This term, the children will be learning about Ice Cream in Spanish. They will learn to:
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