Fox Class

23-24

Welcome to Term 6 Fox Class - our final term together and your final term at Bethersden Primary School. We have another great (and busy) term ahead with Activity Week, Pantastic production and Prom! We will continue to volunteer at the church as well as part of our ‘passport’.

In English, we will continue with our class text  ‘Letters from a Lighthouse’ by Emma Carroll. We will be creating some detailed setting descriptions, character profiles and writing a balanced argument. 

In Maths this term, we will be looking at Statistics and Geometry. In Statistics, we will be reading and retrieving information from line graphs, bar charts and pie charts. Geometry will see us focus on the properties of a variety of shapes including triangles, circles and quadrilaterals.

In Science, we will learn how living things on Earth have changed over time and how fossils provide evidence for this. We will then look at how characteristics are passed from parents to their offspring and how variation in offspring can affect their survival, with changes (adaptations) possibly leading to the evolution of a species.

Our main driver subject this term is History with the unit ‘Britain at War.’ In this project we will learn about the causes, events and consequences of the First and Second World Wars, the influence of new inventions on warfare, how life in Great Britain was affected and the legacy of the wars in the post-war period. 

Art this term is ‘Bees, Beetles and Butterflies’ where we consolidate our understanding on the use of sketchbooks, observational drawing, mixed media collage and Pop Art. To conclude the children will make a final piece of artwork inspired by bees, beetles or butterflies.

Computing will see us using the word processing skills we have developed in Key Stage Two, to produce documents and publish some of our own learning.

Term 3 – Our Learning This Term:

 In English, we have a non-fiction text this term, which compliments our ‘Frozen Kingdoms’ unit and focuses on the journey of Shackleton to Antartica. It is a beautiful book with amazing illustrations and we can’t wait to share it with our Foxes. We will be looking at a variety of text types - from non-chronological reports to character fact files and even a letter of application. We will continue with our SPaG with our weekly spelling patterns and also looking at a variety of grammar rules that we can use within our writing. 

Our focus this term in Maths is Decimals and Percentages and this will follow on nicely from our learning in Term 2 on fractions. We will also be continuing to develop our arithmetic and reasoning by completing daily questions together. 

Our main driver subject this term is Geography with the unit ‘Frozen Kingdoms.’ We will learn about the characteristics and features of polar regions, including the North and South Poles, and includes a detailed exploration of the environmental factors that shape and influence them.

Art this term is ‘Inuit’ which links nicely to our Geography unit. The project teaches us all about the Inuit way of life, including some of their cultural and artistic traditions.

In Science, our topic is Electric circuits and components and we will be spending time investigating circuits, making our own and exploring cells and batteries. 

Our topic in French is ‘A l’ecole’ where we will be focusing initially on learning the names of our school subjects. This will be developed into longer pieces of writing where we will give our opinions on school subjects, and may even say what time we study certain subjects.

Computing will see us looking at programming. We will develop our use of Scratch looking at what other people have used in their own games, moving onto adding our own variables before planning and designing our own game.

Our Learning Environment: