Fox Class

23-24

Welcome to Term 5 Fox Class  - our final big term together at Bethersden Primary School! What an exciting time we had in term four with our trip to the Natural History museum and then the memory making residential at Windmill Hill. We have lots of exciting learning planned for this term.

In English, our class text will be ‘Letters from a Lighthouse’ by Emma Carroll. This is a text that links in nicely with our History topic. We will be looking at a variety of writing types including character and setting descriptions as well as continuing to develop our reading skills.

Our focus this term in Maths is problem solving. We will be looking at a variety of Maths problems, covering a variety of topics and thus ensuring that we have a good understanding of all of the main foundations across Maths.

Our main driver subject this term is History with the unit ‘Britain at War.’ In this project we will learn about the causes, events and consequences of the First and Second World Wars, the influence of new inventions on warfare, how life in Great Britain was affected and the legacy of the wars in the post-war period. Alongside this, our DT unit - ‘Make Do and Mend’ will be looking at a  range of simple sewing stitches, including ways of recycling and repurposing old clothes and materials.

Art this term is ‘Distortion and Abstraction’ and we will think about the concepts of abstraction and distortion and study visual characteristics of abstraction and create a musically-inspired, abstract painting.

In Science our topic is entitled ‘Light Theory'. We will explore how we see light and colours, and phenomena associated with light, including shadows, reflections and refraction.

We are also very lucky to be participating in a Cricketing programme ‘Chance to Shine’ where we will be coached cricket by an expert! This will mean that PE kit must be worn on Mondays. We can’t wait to see your cricketing skills in action.

Spreadsheets will be our focus in Computing where we will look at organising our data, look at how we can format this data and introduce the idea of formulas.

Term 3 – Our Learning This Term:

 In English, we have a non-fiction text this term, which compliments our ‘Frozen Kingdoms’ unit and focuses on the journey of Shackleton to Antartica. It is a beautiful book with amazing illustrations and we can’t wait to share it with our Foxes. We will be looking at a variety of text types - from non-chronological reports to character fact files and even a letter of application. We will continue with our SPaG with our weekly spelling patterns and also looking at a variety of grammar rules that we can use within our writing. 

Our focus this term in Maths is Decimals and Percentages and this will follow on nicely from our learning in Term 2 on fractions. We will also be continuing to develop our arithmetic and reasoning by completing daily questions together. 

Our main driver subject this term is Geography with the unit ‘Frozen Kingdoms.’ We will learn about the characteristics and features of polar regions, including the North and South Poles, and includes a detailed exploration of the environmental factors that shape and influence them.

Art this term is ‘Inuit’ which links nicely to our Geography unit. The project teaches us all about the Inuit way of life, including some of their cultural and artistic traditions.

In Science, our topic is Electric circuits and components and we will be spending time investigating circuits, making our own and exploring cells and batteries. 

Our topic in French is ‘A l’ecole’ where we will be focusing initially on learning the names of our school subjects. This will be developed into longer pieces of writing where we will give our opinions on school subjects, and may even say what time we study certain subjects.

Computing will see us looking at programming. We will develop our use of Scratch looking at what other people have used in their own games, moving onto adding our own variables before planning and designing our own game.

Our Learning Environment: