Summer 1

Summer 1

Week 1

English - Pattan's Pumpkin

This week we started our new writing journey with Chitra Soundar's book Pattan's pumpkin - a traditional flood story. The children used their music knowledge to create soundscapes using language from the story describing the flood. Listening to each others music, the children imagined what it might be like to be Pattan before becoming familiar with the story by acting it out, creating story maps and sequencing events.

Maths - Directions and measurements

To start off the summer term, the children focussed on understanding directional language by giving each other instructions such as quarter turns, half turns, clockwise and anti-clockwise. The children then practically explored and learnt how to estimate and measure capacity in millilitres using different measuring jugs and containers. To finish the week the children used their knowledge of reading scales by learning how to read the temperatures using different thermometer scales.

PE - Dance - African Dancing

With our main topic focussing on Uganda, this half terms dance unit focusses on how dance is used to tell stories through creating a series of movements in rhythmic beats. This week the children listened to a piece of traditional African percussion music and moved/counted the rhythmic pattern before working with a partner to collaborate a movement piece incorporating what we have learnt in gymnastics and dance focussing on levels, twists and turns.

Art - African environmental patterns

This week the children were introduced to our focus artist - John Muafangejo, a Nigerian printer. The children learnt how African art is inspired by environmental and animal patterns and the use of geometric patterns and warm colours. The children explored the different print marks created using different things around them to create their own linear patterned artwork.

Science - forces

This week the children continued their exploration of forces through experimenting the effect different materials have on the motion of large and small vehicles rolling down slopes. The children were able to explain the different forces involved - gravity and friction. After running the experiment were able to explain the reasoning of their findings.

Computing - instructions

Linked to our maths this week, the children focussed on how computers perform tasks through following a series of instructions. This week focussed on the importance of giving clear instructions and allowed the children to see what happens if instructions are unclear or misunderstood. At the start of the lesson, the children had to draw a picture by only follow instructions. The children then got the opportunity to give and follow directions through drawing pictures described by their friend.

PE - Gymnastics - Twisting and turning

The children had the opportunity to showcase their learning this week by linking what we have covered over the year in dance and gymnastics by creating different shape pathways using rolls, levels and twists and turns.

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