Welcome to Brecon Class! 

Welcome to Brecon class where years 4, 5 and 6 learn together. Our class is taught by two teachers: Mrs Grinnell and Mrs Gomersall and we are supported by our amazing teaching assistants. In our classroom, we work hard, support one another and celebrate each other’s successes.

We strive to provide as many opportunities for our KS2 children as possible. We are actively involved in local sporting tournaments and festivals and have a weekly session with our sports coach too. This term the children are also involved in an inter-school times table championship, sporting events run by our Year 6 Bronze Ambassadors and they can also attend Stop Motion lunchtime club if they wish.

Please take a look at our photographs to see what else we get up to!

Our English lessons will continue to be based on the Norse Myth Arthur & the Golden Rope. Children will build up their vocabulary and use different sentence structures to write about Norse Gods. Children will consolidate this learning by writing descriptive texts in the style of a Norse Myth.

Spellings are taught each week following Pathways to Spell and we will practise daily in class. A copy of this half-term’s spellings will be sent home too.  Children read daily in class and weekly in Guided Reading. Children should be reading regularly (at least 4 times a week) at home, either independently or to an adult, and are expected to keep their reading diaries up-to-date.

Maths will be taught in line with the National Curriculum expectations for Years 4, 5 and 6. A particular focus for Year 4s will be on their times tables – this will be tested nationally in June. In week 1, Years 4 & 5 will consolidate their learning on quadrilaterals and other polygons, whilst Year 6 study Algebra. All children will be learning to convert units of measurement and will learn different ways to represent data and statistics. In addition to a daily Maths lesson, the children also keep their calculating skills up-to-date during daily morning Maths and times tables challenges.

In Science, we will be studying Earth & Space. Children will have an opportunity to learn about early scientists and their beliefs about the Earth, Sun & Moon. We will look at  the evidence given to either prove or disprove these early theories. Children will learn about the Solar System and Earth’s place in it. They will carry our modelling of the Earth and Moon’s orbit and will prove that Earth moves using a shadow clock investigation.

In DT this half term we are investigating torches. We will look at their varying designs, features and adaptations for different purposes before designing our own.

Our geography unit is all about Marvellous Maps. We will be improving our skills using atlases and reading maps, including those from our local area. We will use grid coordinates to describe and find locations as well as using the points of a compass. We hope to bring all our learning together with a walk and picnic in our local area.

In music This half-term we will be learning and performing seven songs as part of our production of Treasure Island! The songs are all different genres of music and we will explore their features as we learn them.

In computing, we are learning about Artificial Intelligence. We will explore, what it is, how it can use prompts to ‘learn’ and how it is used today and may be used in the future. We will also have some discussion work about the ethics of using AI.

On Mondays, Mr Watkins, our sports coach, will be teaching the skills associated with striking and fielding games (cricket). These will then be incorporated into competitive games. On Tuesdays, Mrs Grinnell & Mrs Osborne will be taking the children swimming. Non-swimmers will be taught by a swimming instructor, whilst the children, who can swim, will be grouped according to swimming ability and taught by the school teachers.

In RE, we will be continuing our learning about Hinduism, looking at why Hindus try to be good. The children will learn about karma and other aspects of Hinduism through stories and significant people.

In PSHE  Year 5 and 6 will complete their unit of work on careers and the problems associated with gambling. In week 3, we will commence RSE (Relationship & Sex Education). Year 4 will be learning about keeping safe (with year 3). 

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