Kite Class
Kite Class
Teachers: Mrs Maddy Pengelly
Teaching Assistants: Mrs M Cornthwaite.
Welcome to the Autumn term. We have an exciting curriculum planned for this term (more details below). If you do have any questions, please do not hesitate to ask any of the Kite staff.
Please can we remind everyone to ensure their child has a fruit or veg snack to eat at break. Also, remember we only allow water in the drink bottles.
Kite Curriculum Overview Year A 2025
Kite Class- Autumn Term
English fiction will have a focus on description and settings in our writing, using a warning tale (Little Red Riding Hood). Non-fiction writing will follow, focusing on explanation writing techniques. Poetry techniques will be taught during both the half-terms.. Pupils will also create their own ‘invent’ independent writing, to ‘show what they know!’ Spelling, punctuation and grammar will be taught throughout the year. Weekly spellings are attached below.
In Maths we will be developing our understanding of place value including: reading and writing 3-digit and 4-digit numbers, comparing and ordering these numbers, finding 10 or 100 more or less than a given number, recognising and counting in tenths and understanding horizontal, vertical, perpendicular and parallel lines.
Throughout term there will be a focus on mental addition and subtraction methods. We will continue to learn multiplication and dividing, including using a formal written method. All our maths will include problem solving, challenges and lots of math talk. ‘Maths on Track’ (short burst sessions of 15 minutes) will continually revise and remind of topics taught.
Times Tables will be taught daily in short sessions. There will be an emphasis on oral rehearsal of the facts being learnt , as well as completing a practice booklet.
In R.E we will be asking : What do Christians learn from the Creation story?
This unit focuses on the stories of Creation and the Fall as two parts of the ‘Big Story’ of the Bible. Pupils familiarise themselves with the first Creation story from Genesis and key messages within it for many Christians about the world being good and how Christians are called to look after God’s world. They move on to think about the story of Adam and Eve and how the Fall fits into the ‘Big Story’ of the Bible.
Knowledge Organiser –What-do-Christians-learn-from-the-creation-story
In our Science lessons in the first half term,we will be investigating:
Electricity:
- Identify common appliances that run on electricity
- Construct a simple series electrical circuit, identifying and naming its basic parts, including cells, wires, bulbs, switches and buzzers
- Identify whether or not a lamp will light in a simple series circuit, based on whether or not the lamp is part of a complete loop with a battery
- Recognise that a switch opens and closes a circuit and associate this with whether or not a lamp lights in a simple series circuit
- Recognise some common conductors and insulators, and associate metals with being good conductors.
In Computing we will spend teh first half term learning to complete the following: logging on using own password, Word, Save as, Open documents, Text- font size, colour and using dictate tool on Word. Online safety will include using a search engine.
Creating media – stop frame animation
Learners will use a range of techniques to create a stop-frame animation using tablets. Next, they will apply those skills to create a story-based animation. This unit will conclude with learners adding other types of media to their animation, such as music and text.
Other curriculum areas for the Summer Term:
For the first part term, our topic work will have a History focus where we will be asking
How did life for people change from the Stone Age to the Iron Age? During this unit of learning, children will begin to understand how society in the British Isles began, from the earliest hunter-gatherers, through to early agricultural settlements and onto collections of Iron Age hillforts. There is considerable focus during the unit on chronological understanding, placing prehistory as a vast time period on a scaled timeline. Children will begin to understand the concepts of society, settlement and civilization in some depth, which will be built on in future areas of learning.
The second part of Autumn will have a Geography focus. We will ask ‘Where in the world is….? Students will understand key geographical concepts related to political, physical and topographical maps. They will ‘zoom in’ from a global viewpoint, developing their knowledge of the Equator, Tropics of Cancer and Capricorn and begin to understand lines of latitude and longitude. They will understand how continents are divided into countries and be aware of the distribution of the world’s population. They will study on a global scale, zooming in to the UK and their local area. During fieldwork, students will be able to use their map skills by creating their own maps of Long Sutton, to show key geographical features of their local areas. They will then compare their maps and identify features on an OS map.
Art Skills: Drawing (pencil, charcoal, inks, chalk, pastels, ICT software). Children will experiment with a variety of pencils to explore potential using close observation. They will draw both the positive and negative shapes. Thye will use initial sketches as a preparation for painting. They will produce accurate drawings of people – particularly faces.
Artist:Sarah Graham (hyper realism)
DT This will focus on Pneumatic Toys. Children will explore pneumatic systems, then apply this understanding to design and make a pneumatic toy including thumbnail sketches and exploded diagrams.
Music will focus on ballads. Children learn what ballads are, how to identify their features and how to convey different emotions when performing them. Using an animation as inspiration, children carefully select vocabulary to describe the story, before turning them into lyrics by incorporating rhyming words and following the structure of a traditional ballad.
We will learn French. The focus will be Playground games – numbers and age. Pupils will count in French from one to twelve, recognising the written number words, talking about ages, comparing sentence structures in French and English and practicing vocabulary by playing counting and traditional French games .
Weekly Spelling Tests will be on a Friday. All children have a paper copy and also a copy stuck in their reading record books.
ALL YEARS : Encourage your child to develop their Times Table knowledge
Reading- Please sign your child’s reading record every time they are heard reading. This will show a minimum of 4 reads a week is being completed. Reading record books will be checked every Friday and signed by member of Kite staff.
If you are using the AR scheme ,please log on below and complete a quiz. Always keep reading. Read aloud to an adult daily and read to themselves for at least 20 minutes a day, preferably more. Here is a link to questions to ask when listen to your child reading. If possible share stories as a family too. Write a book review for each book you read.
A reading website that has updated lists of children’s authors reading aloud and fun activities. https://www.weareteachers.com/virtual-author-activities/?utm_content=1584565321&utm_medium=social&utm_source=facebook
Class work for children who are absent but able to work:
English
Have a go at the writing activities. Why not write your own tale using a character you have created and a detailed setting description? There are some help sheets below.
Create a character: Character Description
How do you write dialogue? Remind yourself here:Dialogue help Have a go at creating a setting: story-settings-writing frames
Children can write out the times tables. As a guide , begin with 10X, 5X and 2X. Move on to the others up to 12X. The corresponding division facts should also be learnt.
Reading 4 times a week for at least 20 minutes is encouraged. AR quizzes (for those using AR) can be accessed during school time.
Maths: Click on the links on the sheet.
Maths isolation workwho-was-jesus-6mv66c-9bc2d80dd348839
Time –
1.maths-ks2-lesson Time to the minute Powerpoint
1.maths-ks2-lesson Time to the minute worksheet
2.Telling-the-time AM PM answers
Here is some shape revision:
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