Class 7 Summer 1

Literacy

This term, we have focused non-fiction genres and began our learning with a persuasive letter to parents to encourage them to see our amazing artwork. Throughout this unit we focused on exploring ambitious vocabulary within a relevant context as well as a experimenting with a range of sentence openers to interest and engage our readers.

As well as writing letters we have focused on writing a biography all about Pablo Picasso. After learning lots of facts about him in LIRA and topic, we had plenty of knowledge to help us with our writing. We learnt that it was really important for our biographies to be written in chronological order using time conjunctions to sort the events of Picasso’s life. This unit also enables us to explore the use of third person and using a wide range of sentence openers.

Maths

In Maths, we have focused our learning and multiplication and division to strength our understanding of these operations. We have worked hard to develop our knowledge of key numbers facts to strength our arithmetic understanding.

Science

This term we have explored how light travels and moves. The children have used torches to experiment with reflective materials. They have also experimented with mirrors to identify and explain how light can travel.

Topic

Our topic ‘Express Yourself’ has been linked to Pablo Picasso as our focus for this half term has been art. During this topic, we learnt all about Picasso and the different styles of work he created throughout his lifetime. We really focussed on learning about cubism as this was the style we wanted to use for our own final pieces. We experimented with different painting techniques to gain an insight into which ones we would like to use as part of our final piece and we also learnt about the colour wheel and how certain colours compliment one another. Once we had gained knowledge of these specific areas, we began to draw our final piece and then painted it too.

PE

This term, the children have focused on their batting, fielding and catching skills and have applied their understanding into a game of cricket.