Hollingbourne Primary SchoolOak Class

ENGLISH This term we will continue with our daily spelling focus looking at rules and strategies to help remember both words learnt so far as well as tacklingnew words.Grammar and punctuation will continue to be taught

throughout our units of work to enable us to use correctly within our writing.We will continue to use quality texts within English; also incorporating short films to immerse the children in stories; enabling them to use their inference and deduction learnt throughout the year to understand different characters’ perspectives, feelings and viewpoints. As always, we will focus on writing for different purposes and audiences, giving the children the opportunity to draft and re-draft their work to help them improve their writing.MATHSThere are 4 learning weeks until SATs for Year 6! Therefore we will be spending these weeks reviewing all the main learning objectives so as to ensure they have recapped all the key objectives and are able to perform their very best in May. Year 5s will follow the same revision pattern as Year 6, recapping all their key learning objectives so they are fully ready for the challenge of the Year 6 objectives as they arrive.We will be continuing also to complete Times Table Rockstars 3 times a week. Hopefully your children are still using this regularly at home as we know how important rapid times table recall is.

SCIENCEOur topic this term is Living Things and Their Environment. We will be thinking about the classification of plants and the different groups they fall into. As we are so fortunate to have wonderful school grounds, and lots more around the school locality, we will, during our lessons be going outside and identifying plants in our

local environment. Once we have gathered plenty of observation notes, photos and possible examples, we will create our own classification keys which we will then give to other groups within our class to test out.We will look at the scientist Carl Linnaeus who completed a lot of research and made several ground breaking changes in this area. The following video outlines some of his work: http://www.nhm.ac.uk/nature-online/science-of-natural-history/biographies/linnaeus/PE This term we are developing our skills and learning lacrosse with our partners at The Lenham School.On a Friday, where time permits, we will be trying some yoga to compliment our work on Mindfulness.

HISTORYThis term we will be looking at the ancient culture and civilisation of The Aztecs. We will discover when and where they lived; daily life of the Aztec people; how Aztec society

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was organised; what the Aztecs believed and how this impacted upon their lives and to understand about the fall of the Aztec empire.

ARTThis term in art, we will be learning about different types of Brazilian art and artists.

DESIGN & TECHNOLOGYAs the snow set us back a week we didn’t get time to complete our DT work last term. We will cover it this term instead:

We are going to look at bread. We will taste it, make it – properly and by cheating in a bread maker – and will finish by designing our own breads and sampling them within class. We will compile all our recipes into an Oak Class recipe book for all to keep.

Will we discover we have the next Paul Hollywood in Hollingbourne?

MUSICAn expert music teacher will teach us Djembe drumming.

As always our door is open should any parents wish have any queries or concerns.

Thank you for your continued support, Miss Allen and Mrs Jones.