Teacher: Mrs Burns
KS2 Teaching Assistants: Mrs Yorke and Miss Bingle
Curriculum information
Class 3
Terms 5&6 Summer 2025
The topics that we will be covering during this term of ‘Africa’ are:
| English |
Narrative writing based on ‘Talk for Writing’ story – a finding tale called “Adventure at Cambury Park” List Poems Recounts Weekly spelling test with a new list given on a Thursday for homework
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| Maths | Money including converting pounds and pence. Adding/subtracting money
Time using 12-hour and 24-hour clocks Angles – identifying acute, obtuse and right angles. Comparing and ordering angles Shape and symmetry – comparing and classifying geometric shapes including quadrilaterals and triangles Measures: volume and capacity Co-ordinates Statistics including bar charts, pictograms and tables Times Tables Rock Stars will also continue and 50/100 club each week
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| Science | Animals including humans – right types and amount of nutrition. Skeletons and muscles
Setting up enquiries, fair tests, making predictions, carrying out investigations, recording results and writing conclusions Rocks and soils – comparing and grouping rocks. How fossils are formed. Recognising that soils are made from rocks and organic matter |
| Computing
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Programming and computer control using ‘Discovery Coding’
Skills: sequence and animation, introduction to variables, conditional events
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| History/
Geography |
Africa:
Map work skills e.g grid references Africa on a world map and understanding the equator, tropics, latitude, longitude, hemispheres, climate zones Physical and human geography of Africa compared to the UK Focus on Kenya Similarities and differences between Kenya and the UK.
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| Art / DT | Art – study of artist: Seurat. Focus on painting – colour mixing to express emotions and experimenting with different textures
DT – cooking and nutrition. Sampling, designing and making pizzas
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| PE
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Striking and fielding activities
Athletics with Atlas Sports coach – Mr Sheldrake Swimming – 6 sessions |
| RE | |
| Music
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Glockenspiel unit completed with Lee Butler from autumn term 2024
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| PSHE | Zones of Regulation as part of whole school initiative
RSE – Growing and Changing. Taught in separate year groups.
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