Summer 2

Maths

This week we are reacaping on certain topics to make sure the foundation an understanding is secure to make each child reach their potential.

Addition and Subtraction

                          Multiplication

The children have worked extremely hard this week. They have been trying to understand money problems using real life situations.

This week, the children are looking at Angles.

The four types of angle you should know are acute, obtuse, reflex and right angles. When you are estimating the size of an angle, you should consider what type of angle it is first.

Well done everyone. You have remembered from our previous lessons and have shown great understanding.

This week, the children are looking at Division.

Click on the BBC picture below to learn how to divide 4 digit number by 1 digit number.

English

A Midsummer Night's Dream by William Shakespeare

   Act 1   Scene 1  

Please click on the pictures below to listen to parts of the story that will help your child in their class work. Your support is much appreciated.

The children are learning all about playscript. Looking at the language that was used and understanding the way of life.

They have made prediction about what could happen and expalin why by watching clips. They have also compared and contrast the characters

This week, the children are looking at Greek Myths.

 Using the guide quuestions the childrren began to explore  Pandora’s Box

• Why did Pandora want to open the box
• What else could Epimetheus have done to ensure the box was never opened?
• Why was it important that Pandora let ‘Hope’ out of the box?
• What part of human experience does the story explain?

R.E

DT

                                    Sewing

In DT,  we are creating a hanging holder with pockets for someone going on a camping trip.

The children have been evaluting a hanging holder with pockets. They looked at a variety of holders and thiught about who would use them, what for and when.

They also looked at what the material they would use, would it be waterproof?, the size of their product and who would buy it.

Today the children were shown diffewrent styles of sewing that they can later use when creating their product.

They then began to design their prototype of their product.

Computing

What is digital resilience?

Digital resilience is a dynamic personality asset that grows from digital activation i.e. through engaging with appropriate opportunities and challenges online, rather than through avoidance and safety behaviours.

Art

This term, the children will be looking at Dawn Beedell.

Information about Dawn Beedell

I am a mixed media artist and a teacher, living in Lancashire, England. I create colourful paintings to inspire and uplift people and my mission is to promote the enjoyment of art and creative practices through courses and workshops.

My work is strongly influenced by the beauty of nature and ideas from my childhood from mystery, make believe and fairy tales.     

The children have really enjoyed creating pieces of art using techniques they have learnt.

Parents were invited to see what their child have create and helped them to improve the creations.

Below are some pictures for you to see.

The children continued their art pieces the next day and the finish products are amazing.

Queen Jubilee Concert.

On 6th February this year Her Majesty The Queen became the first British Monarch to celebrate a Platinum Jubilee, marking 70 years of service to the people of the United Kingdom, the Realms and the Commonwealth.

Thursday 2nd June

Trooping the Colour: The Queen’s Birthday Parade will be held on Thursday 2nd June 2022 starting at 11am. The colour will be trooped by the 1st Battalion, Irish Guards, and more than 1200 officers and soldiers from the Household Division will put on a display of military pageantry on Horse Guards Parade, together with hundreds of Army musicians and around 240 horses. This annual event has now marked the official birthday of the British Sovereign for over 260 years.

This year to celebrate, children from Reception to Year 6 will be performing songs fromm the 1950's onwards. All year groups have chosen and Year 5 chose Eye Of The Tiger by Survivor.

Children will be dressing in red, white or blue on that day.

Friday 10th June.

WOW!!                                   

The day started with the children coming to school in red, white or blue. They all looked amazing.We talked about the 70 years that the Queen has ruled the Monarchy and how how the world has changed. From technology, food, clothes, the way we live and welcoming people from all around the world. The children discussed how life would be if they did not have internet or televisions in their home. We looked and the postives and negatives of these and understood that even though we are very privilged to live the way we live, we need to look after people around us to make sure that they feel connected.  Remember manners dose not cost anything and a smile goes along way.

      Happy 70th Queens Platiumn Jubilee to everyone.  

Below are pictures of the children enjoying the day. 

The children have been busy learing a song from the 1980s which they will be performing at the concert on Friday. Please support us by helping your child learn the lyrics.

Please  press the clip and watch the video.

The lyrics are below.

 History

                                                                     The Ancient Greeks      

This  week, the children are learning about the Grreks. The first Greeks, often called Mynians, were Indo-Europeans who probably migrated from regions just south of what is now Russia towards the end of the 4th millennium.

The first civilizations appeared in the Cyclades and then in Crete.

The 16th century BC saw the emergence of the Mycenaean civilization, named after the strongest state during this period: Mycenae.

During the 7th and 6th centuries BC, some Greek cities began to establish colonies and trading posts along the Mediterranean coastline, because they lacked sufficient arable land to feed their inhabitants and were keen to control maritime trade routes.

The principal areas were:

- Southern Italy and Sicily;

- The straits and coast of the Black Sea;

- The far western Mediterranean coast: Provence, Iberian peninsula, Corsica; 

• And a few places on the African coast.  

The children were shown artefacts and asked them in their opinins what they could be, what are they made from and what wer they used for.

How much impact did the Greeks have on the Western World?

How influential were Greek achievements?

Roman historian Justinus said this in the 3rd century about the Greeks who settled in Marseilles in the south of France:

‘From the people of Marseilles (Greek colonists), therefore, the Gauls learned a more civilized way of life, their former barbarity being laid aside or softened; and by them they were taught to cultivate their lands and to enclose their towns with walls. Then too, they grew accustomed to live according to laws, and not by violence; then they learned to prune the vine and plant the olive; and such a radiance was shed over both men and things, that it was not Greece which seemed to have immigrated into Gaul, but Gaul that seemed to have been transplanted into Greece.’ 

Who influenced the Greeks?

• They were classed as the first ‘sea-faring’ people due to their expert knowledge of navigation and trading – they discovered the North Star which the Greeks called the Phoenician Star
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• They played fine music, which became an important part of Greek life
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• They developed lime mortar for building, which the Greeks advanced to cement, which the Romans advanced to concrete.

• The Egyptians set up a Greet trading post at Naucratis in Egypt so that the Greeks could move freely between Greece and Egypt in the space of a weekend. The Greeks started travelling there and even started settling and colonising there, seeing Egyptian buildings and ways of life!
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• Lots of Greeks, including the first historian Herodotus, thought that Greek religion actually came from the gods and goddesses of Ancient Egypt!