SCIENCE

For the first few weeks of term we will be looking at the digestive system and reminding ourselves on the role different teeth take when digesting food.

Year 4/5
Term- Summer 1

ICT

This half term the children will continue to develop their coding skills in SCRATCH. They will also use the internet to research and use google maps to identify different countries around the world.

English

This half term we will be looking at speech marks, figurative language, modal verbs, parenthesis and different types of clauses. All this work in grammar will help us to write a story set in Spain. 

After watching and experiencing a mini fiesta, through drama, the children will then write a diary entry through the eyes of a Spanish child.

Finally, the children will look at different types of poetry and then write their own along the theme of fiestas. They will then learn these and recite them at the tapas afternoon.

Art/DT
In art the children will be looking at landscapes of both Spain and England and then creating their own using a variety of different materials. They will also look at the artist Gaudi and create paintings inspired by his work.

In DT, we will be focusing on cooking. The children will be designing and creating a variety of savoury dishes for our tapas afternoon. 

	

Maths

In Maths this half term, we will be doing lots of revision from all the different of areas of maths that we have covered this year especially looking at fractions, decimals and percentages. The children will also need to know their times tables really well as we will be looking at lots of word problems and developing our mental strategies to enable us to solve them.

Within our topic, we will be revising our skills in measuring and converting between measurements when we make the food for our tapas afternoon. We will also be developing our skills at reading tables accurately and explaining our understanding of different pieces of data.

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GEOGRAPHY
This half term we will be revising what we already know about continents, countries and cities through our research into different fiestas around the world. We will also identify the vocabulary associated with the world and how it is split up and the year fives will carry out a research project about the Tropic of Cancer and Capricorn.
We will be focusing on human geography this half term, specifically looking at how the land in Spain is used, what food grows and how it is exported. This will link to our tapas afternoon as the children will design a dish with only ingredients that are grown or caught in Spain.

	

The children will be finding out about festivals from all of the world and especially in Spain. They will then plan and make food for a tapas afternoon where we will invite family members to come along and join in our fiesta!

INFORMATION

Please continue hearing your child read at home- it is so important for them to read out loud and to read a variety of books. After speaking with many of you at parents evening, I will be sending home a laminated list of all the spellings children are expected to know by the end of year 4 and end of year 6. Please help your child to revise these as well as their weekly spellings and times tables.

Invitations will be sent out for the tapas afternoon as soon as the children and I have selected a date, spaces will be limited but you will receive more information nearer the time.   Thank you, Mrs Minnaar

FRENCH
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 RE/PSHE

This half term we will be revisiting the programme of study called R-time. This will help children develop their communication skills, manners and team work. 

MUSIC
This half term we will be using graphic notation to compose our own Spanish inspired fiesta pieces. The children will also listen to and appreciate music from different areas of Spain and experiment using different types of instruments.