1. WELL-BEING ENGLISH Voyager Class SCIENCE CREATIVE MATHS KEY DATES
We will discuss staying safe at night and how to assess and manage risks. We will think about keeping myself safe and how to respond to a range of emergency situations. We will explore our fears, likes, and dislikes about dark. How dark makes me feel. How our thoughts and emotions affect how we feel and act and share ways of managing them.
ENGLISH
We are going to find out about and write informative reports about owls and nocturnal animals. We will write a letter to the Barn Owl Trust and explore different types of poetry, using owls as a stimulus for our writing. We will read and compare books by the author Jill Tomlinson with ‘The Owl who was afraid of the dark’ being our starting point.
Humanities
We will develop our mapwork skills by looking at maps of the local area and identifying physical and human characteristics,( rivers, woods, fields, cities.) We will think abiut how animals adapt and compare cities and rural areas.
We will discover which animals are nocturnal and look in detail at their food chains and habitats.
Voyager Class
We are thinking about Dark and how dark makes us feel. Dark can be exciting, beautiful, frightening and necessary. We will think about activities which take place at night, how to stay safe in the dark and how to express and deal with fears about the dark. We will think about animals which come out at night and in particular we will learn about the lives of owls. A visit to school by live owls and nocturnal animals will help to bring our topic alive!!!
SCIENCE
As Scientists we will explore birds skeletons, how they let birds move and protect them. We will follow this by thinking about forces and flight.
How birds fly and the function of different feathers, how feathers help flight,and survival.
CREATIVE
We will produce owl pictures using feathers to give texture.
Images of the night sky and stars and moon will serve as a backdrop to silhouettes
MATHS
We will continue to develop maths skills of addition, subtraction, multiplication, division, place value, fractions, shapes including right angles and problem solving.
TECHNOLOGY
We are developing our computer skills through habitats- organising and sorting data, creating data bases including branching data bases
KEY DATES
Visit from Owls and nocturnal animals
Build a bird feeding area.- TBA