Welcome to Summer 2 in Robins.
Behaviours for Learning
After concluding our learning on Good To Be Me, we will turn our attention to our final behaviours for learning themes, Relationships and then Changes.
The theme of Relationships is the second of two focusing specifically on feelings. It explores feelings within the context of our important relationships including family and friends.
The theme aims to develop knowledge, understanding and skills in three key social and emotional aspects of learning: self-awareness, managing feelings and empathy. In addition, there is a focus throughout the theme on helping children understand the feelings associated with an experience that we all need to cope with at some time: that of loss – whether of a favourite possession, a friend, a family home, or a loved one.
The theme Changes aims to equip children with an understanding of different types of change, positive and negative, and common human responses to it. The theme seeks to develop children’s ability to understand and manage the feelings associated with change. It aims to develop knowledge, understanding and skills in three key social and emotional aspects of learning: motivation, social skills and managing feelings.
English
Our texts are Rosie Revere, Engineer, and Last Stop on Market Street.
The children will be enrolling in Rosie Revere’s Engineering Academy and receiving an engineering challenge to design a new bridge for their local area. Children go on to make models of their bridge design and write a brief explanation about how it works. They will look at the different wacky inventions in the book and write guides to explain how they could operate, as well as posters to advertise them The sequence continues with children writing a school report for Rosie, describing her character and explaining why she is a great role model. The class will get another engineering challenge from Rosie which will ask them to create their own wacky inventions. Children’s extended piece of writing will be on describing their own invention and explaining how it works.
Children will then explore the true beauty of everyday life through the lens of a bus journey across a bustling town, unpicking themes of gratitude and giving along the way. Beginning with the Discovery Point of a bus ride through their local area, children use their senses to describe their experience. The poetic language of the text is then used to inspire children to write their own poetry for ‘the bus that breathes fire’. Children write interview questions for the passengers on the bus to find out more about them, and use their senses to create further poetry to describe sights, sounds and smells of the journey. When CJ arrives at his destination, children explore the concepts of giving and charity through creating adverts for the Soup Kitchen, alongside advice notes explaining why it is important to help those in need and letters to the local community to encourage them to do so. This then culminates in children creating their own narrative based on a journey to help others using the poetic devices and language techniques explored throughout the Writing Root.
Maths
After finishing our unit on Time, where we will be learning to tell the time to 5 minute intervals and to consider intervals of time both in minutes and hour, we will move on to a unit on Statistics. In this unit we will be collecting data, displaying it in different formats, including visually as graphs and charts. Finally, we will focus on Position and Direction, understanding prepositions, direction and turns.
Science
History
Religious Education
Life Skills
Computing
Music
DT
Linked below are the knowledge organisers that will help you support your children with all this learning during the half-term. Thank you for all that you do to support your children with their learning at Glade.