Please note that all Home Learning can be found on our 'Seesaw' Home Learning Platform.

Topics for the Spring Term

Rocks, Relics and Rumbles

This project teaches children about the features and characteristics of Earth's layers, including a detailed exploration of volcanic, tectonic and seismic activity.

English – Novel - The Firework-Maker’s Daughter – Phillip Pullman.

Lila longs to become a Firework-Maker like her father. Against his wishes, she runs away to the volcano, Mount Merapi, to find Royal Sulphur, a task all Firework-Makers must complete. Lila meets many challenges during her journey up the mountain. Her encounter with the Fire-Fiend determines once and for all whether she will become a Firework-Maker.

Science - Compare and group together different kinds of rocks on the basis of their appearance and simple physical properties.

Describe in simple terms how fossils are formed when things that have lived are trapped within rock.

Geography – To understand that the crust of the Earth is divided into tectonic plates that move. The place where plates meet is called a plate boundary. Plates can push into each other, pull apart or slide against each other. These movements can create mountains, volcanoes and earthquakes.

To locate significant volcanoes include Mount Vesuvius in Italy, Laki in Iceland and Krakatoa in Indonesia. To understand that significant earthquake-prone areas include the San Andreas Fault in North America and the Ring of Fire, which runs around the edge of the Pacific Ocean and is where many plate boundaries in the Earth's crust converge. Over three-quarters of the world’s earthquakes and volcanic eruptions happen along the Ring of Fire. 

To understand that a volcano is an opening in the Earth’s surface from which gas, hot magma and ash can escape. To know that they are usually found at meeting points of the Earth's tectonic plates and that when a volcano erupts, liquid magma collects in an underground magma chamber. The magma pushes through a crack called a vent and bursts out onto the Earth’s surface. Lava, hot ash and mudslides from volcanic eruptions can cause severe damage.

Explain the physical processes that cause earthquakes and volcanic eruptions.

History - Explain the cause and effect of a significant historical event. Pompeii was an ancient Roman city that perished when Mount Vesuvius erupted in AD 79. The archaeological site of Pompeii is historically significant because it provides a large amount of information about Roman life.

Make deductions and draw conclusions about the reliability of a historical source or artefact.

Art and Design – Ammonites - This project teaches children about artistic techniques used in sketching, printmaking and sculpture. It uses nature and natural forms as a starting point for artwork.

PE - PE will be on a Friday afternoon and children will need to wear their PE kit to school. The kit will comprise of black jogging bottoms/leggings, a white t-shirt and their school jumper.  Trainers will also need to be worn into school.

Reading - ‘Home Readers’ will be Oxford Reading Tree books and we ask that you read with your child at home as much as possible.  Oxford Reading Tree books can be changed once an adult has confirmed completion of their current book.

Homework - Homework will be set on our Seesaw Home Learning Platform.

Spellings will be given for the whole half term. Spellings are tested on a Friday.

At the moment the children have been asked to read each night and continue to work on Times Tables Rock Stars and Manga High.

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