Upper KS2 Curriculum News Autumn Term 2017

This term’s topic is


Topics in other subjects are:

  • Computing: E-safety & Music and Sound
  • Science: Evolution and Inheritance
  • Properties and Changes of Materials (Potions!)
  • DT: Cooking and Nutrition
  • Music: Livin’ on a Prayer
  • Art: Textiles
  • PE: Orienteering, Tag rugby, Netball, Football
  • RE: If God is everywhere, why go to a place of worship?
  • Foreign Languages: French
  • Geography: Vegetable belts and biomes (Herbology!)

Maths

This term we will focus on these topics:

  • Multiples
  • Place value of large numbers and decimals
  • Formal written strategies for the four operations
  • Fractions
  • Properties of 2D and 3D shape

Please take time each week to help your child practise for the next sticker on their Going for Gold certificate and support them in their weekly maths homework and Mathletics tasks.

English

We will be focusing on the following:

  • Explanation writing
  • Instructions
  • Developing skills in editing and redrafting
  • Poetry techniques
  • Playscripts

Please help your child practise the spellings they are given each week in their planner as well as their bookmark spellings.

Thank you for your support

Dani Rees, Josh Burnell, Andrea Walton & Sarah Wilson

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