The children make an exciting discovery when they return to school after the Easter Holidays; the corridor has been trashed and an egg has been laid, but by what? The children will become detectives and soon it all becomes clear. They write newspaper reports about the amazing discovery.
In Maths, the children continue with their learning of fractions, and then move onto learning about time, shape and measurement. Science lessons focus on finding out more about Rocks, soils and plants.
In the foundation subjects, children will learn to use Scratch, will write compositions in Music, continue to learn new vocabulary in French and stay fit and healthy during PE and swimming lessons.
To see what the children will be learning, please click here to view the Year 3 English curriculum, the Year 3 maths curriculum and Year 3 science curriculum. Details regarding other subject lessons can be viewed in our wider curriculum progression documents.
At White Meadows Primary we use the Read Write Inc. phonics programme across both Key Stages up to Year 3. This phonics scheme provides a systematic approach to literacy, both reading and writing, which is fun and engaging. This is supplemented with the use of phonetically decodable books from Oxford Reading Tree and the Phonic Bug schemes, along with a range of other texts. Further details on how you can support your child can be found on the Read Write Inc website, www.ruthmiskin.com.
In addition to the above programme, we also use the Big Write and Big Maths schemes and Little Big Maths in Foundation Stage.
Parents are welcome to approach class teachers to find out more about the curriculum at White Meadows. The following links give more details of the Early Years and National Curriculum.
https://www.gov.uk/early-years-foundation-stage
https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/national-curriculum
During the first half of the summer term, Year 4 travel back in time to Ancient Egypt. We will find out all about how and why the Ancient Egyptians were so important and about the discovery of King Tutankhamun’s tomb by the Egyptologist Howard Carter. In English, we will write newspaper reports about this amazing discovery. We will also be studying the book Egyptian Cinderella in Reading workshop lessons. Towards the end of Summer 1, we will visit Brighton Museum to take part in a mummification workshop.
In Maths lessons, we will continue learning about decimals and then move on to learning about money and time. During the second half of the term, we will learn all about geometry.
In other areas of the curriculum, we will continue developing our swimming skills, get prepared ready for sports day through our athletic lessons and use clay in Art lessons to create our own canopic jars. This term, Elm class will receive Ukulele lessons through West Sussex Music.
To see what the children will be learning, please click here to view the Year 4 English curriculum, the Year 4 maths curriculum and the Year 4 science curriculum. Details regarding other subject lessons can be viewed in our wider curriculum progression documents.
Parents are welcome to approach class teachers to find out more about the curriculum at White Meadows. The following link gives more details of the National Curriculum.
https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/national-curriculum
During the first half of summer term in year 5, we will be learning about the Magnificent Mayan civilisation, their traditions, beliefs and customs. In art, we will be studying and imitating Mayan patterns by block printing and making Mayan pots out of clay. Our English and reading will be based around Mayan creation stories and learning about the mysteries of the ancient civilisation. We will create our own characters to star in our own Mayan Myth. Our science lessons will be based around plants and plant reproduction.
During the second half, we will be learning about Robin Hood and his Merry Men. We will be focusing on learning how to write a playscript and perform a play. Our science learning will be about describing the differences in the life cycles of a mammal, an amphibian, an insect and a bird and describing the life process of reproduction in some plants and animals.
To see what the children will be learning, please click here to view the Year 5 English curriculum, the Year 5 maths curriculum or the Year 5 science curriculum. Details regarding other subject lessons can be viewed in our wider curriculum progression documents.
Parents are welcome to approach class teachers to find out more about the curriculum at White Meadows. The following link gives more details of the National Curriculum.
https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/national-curriculum
This half term in Year 6 we will be looking at play scripts, narrative writing and rhyming couplet poetry, focusing in particular on the works of William Shakespeare. Combining drama and art, we hope the children will be inspired to write some wonderful pieces of work, while learning the key skills needed for writing in Year 6. In maths, we will be working on place value, addition and subtraction and multiplication and division. In science, we will be looking at classifying animals and micro-organisms. We are very excited to be designing and producing mobile phone covers in DT!
To see what the children will be learning, please click here to view the Year 6 English curriculum, the Year 6 maths curriculum or the Year 6 science curriculum. Details regarding other subject lessons can be viewed in our wider curriculum progression documents.
Parents are welcome to approach class teachers to find out more about the curriculum at White Meadows. The following link gives more details of the National Curriculum.
https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/national-curriculum
