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Welcome back to Ockbrook class!

Our topic this term is:

A Local Area Study

As part of our topic we will be delving into the geography (and a little history) of our local area. We shall learn:

• about human geography, including: types of settlement and land use, economic activity including trade links, and the distribution of natural resources including energy, food, minerals and water.
• use maps, atlases, globes and digital/computer mapping to locate countries and describe features studied
• use the eight points of a compass, four and six-figure grid references, symbols and key (including the use of Ordnance Survey maps) to build their knowledge of the United Kingdom and the wider world
• use fieldwork to observe, measure, record and present the human and physical features in the local area using a range of methods, including sketch maps, plans and graphs, and digital technologies.
   

This term in Maths we will be learning about the properties of shapes. We shall recap on identifying angles, comparing and measuring angles, using a protractor as well as understanding triangles and quadrilaterals. Following this, we shall learn about position and direction. We shall continue to use a mastery approach to teaching to develop our fluency, problem solving skills and reasoning, using a variety of pictorial, abstract and concrete resources. 

In English we shall be exploring the genre of a balanced argument and debate. This will culminate in the children debating around an issue in our local area.

This term in science we will be looking at properties and changes of materials. Children will:

• compare and group together everyday materials on the basis of their properties, including their hardness, solubility, transparency, conductivity (electrical and thermal), and response to magnets;
• know that some materials will dissolve in liquid to form a solution, and describe how to recover a substance from a solution;
• use knowledge of solids, liquids and gases to decide how mixtures might be separated, including through filtering, sieving and evaporating;
• give reasons, based on evidence from comparative and fair tests, for the particular uses of everyday materials, including metals, wood and plastic;
• demonstrate that dissolving, mixing and changes of state are reversible changes;
• explain that some changes result in the formation of new materials, and that this kind of change is not usually reversible, including changes associated with burning and the action of acid on bicarbonate of soda.

In PE we shall be taking part in swimming lessons on Mondays and cricket on Wednesdays.

Mr Dale (24/4/22)

Class Timetable

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