Art – As artists we will:

• Share ideas about painting techniques and paint materials
• Discuss our work and produce work in response to well-known artists.
• Organise and combine visual and tactile qualities of materials and develop explorations, ideas and responses in our work.
• Compare and comment on ideas, methods and approaches in our own and others’ work.

 Computing – We will :

• Creating games as Game creators.
• 3D modelling.
• Investigating concept maps.

Design Technology – As designers we will be investigating and create a game. We will :

• Carry out research into user needs and existing products, using surveys, interviews, questionnaires and web-based resources.
• Understand how to build a circuit structure for our fully functioning working buzz game.

English – As writers and communicators we will :

• Write a character profile.
• an invitation to a feast.
• Write a job advertisement / wanted posters.
• Letter writing – Beowulf to home.
• Recount of the feast in mead-hall.
• Explanation text writing – how to kill a monster.
• To create a map from detail in text place.

French ­ –  As linguists we will be learning about ‘le retour du printemps’ meaning the return of spring and finishing the year with ‘les planètes ’ meaning the planets.

Geography:  The Globe. We will:

• Identify the equator, the tropics of cancer and Capricorn and the Greenwich meridian.
• Identify the position and significance of latitude and longitude, the Equator, Northern and Southern
  Hemispheres, the tropics of cancer and Capricorn, Arctic and Antarctic Circle, the prime/Greenwich meridian.
• Begin to identify the position of time zones (including night and day).
• To know the names of and locate some of the world’s deserts and describe what that environment is like.

History – As historians we will study the struggle between the Vikings and Anglo-Saxons for the Kingdom of England learning, specifically about:

• Where the Vikings originated from and show this on a map.
• The importance of travel and how this developed the civilisation / us today?
• That the Vikings and Anglo-Saxons were often in conflict.
• Why the Vikings frequently won battles against the Anglo-Saxons.
• Links will also be made with English (carrying out research), Design Technology (designing/making a longboat, design and make a Viking style meal).

Mathematics – As mathematicians we will be :

• Converting units of measure.
• Calculating with whole numbers and decimals.
• 2-D and 3-D shape.
• Estimate and calculating volume.
• Problem solving

Music – This term our music is focused around ‘Dancing In The Street’ by Martha And The Vandellas as well as consolidating everything we have learnt this year.

P.E. – As athletes we will :

• Play net and field games.
• Carry out athletics to prepare for our sports day.
• Improve our swimming technique and water confidence.

R.E. – As theologians we will :

• Life in the Risen Jesus
• Understand that Jesus is risen from the dead.
• Learn that Jesus is present among us in
  different ways.
• Learn that there are different ways of praying.
• Reflect on Jesus’ teaching and example on prayer.
• Learn how to pray the Rosary.
• The Transforming Spirit :
• Know about the Ascension.
• Understand what happened at Pentecost.
• Understand how the Holy Spirit worked through the Apostles.
• Understand that the popes are successors of St. Peter.

RPSHE – As we are continuing to develop we will:

• Learn about the importance of mobile phone safety.
• Learn about how we will grow and change.
• Learn about what jobs we will like.

Science – We will be learning about the planets in our Solar System and forces. We will:

• Be using Mathematics to model the dimensions of our solar system.
• Be describing the movement of the earth and moon relative to the sun in our solar system.
• Be identifying evidence that has been used to support a theory.
• Be describing the movement of the moon relative to the earth.
• Be using simple models to explain scientific areas, such as day and night.
• Be explaining some of the effect of gravity.
• Be planning, carrying out and explaining a fair test to find out how well different objects fall.
• Be observing a variety of forces that slow things down.