Our topics for this half term are ‘Brainwave: metacognition’ and ‘Temples, Tombs and Treasures’.

Brainwaves: metacognition.

Do you remember learning about the brain? We are going to find out more about how our brain and memory work to help us learn. This three week unit is all about metacognition! It will help us with all our future learning and actually make us better learners!

Temples, Tombs and Treasures.

We will be learning about who the first Ancient civilisations were, where they settled in the world and why they chose that particular place. We will look at how these civilisations grew rapidly and lasted for thousands of years. We will explore what their family life was like, how they communicated their life, their religion, traditions and beliefs, who ruled these civilisations, their tombs- how they were built, why they were built and the process of making a mummy! We will investigate the treasures and paintings left behind in these tombs and how this can tell us about life in the past. We will look at their stories and retell these stories with music and compare life in the past to life today. We will need to be historians, artists, geographers and musicians.

What was it like to live in Ancient Egypt or Ancient Sumner? Would you like a time machine to go back and visit the past?

English

In English, we will be focusing on the following genres of writing: 

– Poetry

– Persuasive writing (adverbs)

– First person diary entries

Maths

Maths this half term will be:

– Place value

– Addition and subtraction