Ockbrook

Please remember your P.E. kit, pupil organiser and reading book!

Remember to wear your P.E. kit on Tuesdays! Swimming kit on Wednesdays!

Home Learning

5 Day Remote Learning Plan Autumn 1

Homework!

Homework & Spellings

Welcome back to Ockbrook class!

Our Topic this term is:

Our topic this term is:

Engineering

As part of our topic we will be delving into Engineering. We will learn about local engineering company, Rolls Royce and children will design, create and evaluate their own motorised vehicle. We shall learn:

Geography

Learn about the identifying human and physical characteristics of parts of UK including land use patterns.

Describe and understand key aspects of human geography including types of settlements, land use, economic activity including trade links, and the distribution of natural resources such as energy, food, minerals and water.

History

I learn about an aspect of local history

Generate, develop, model and communicate their ideas through discussion, annotated sketches, cross-sectional and exploded diagrams, prototypes, pattern pieces and computer-aided design.

Select from and use a wider range of materials and components, including construction materials, textiles and ingredients, according to their functional properties and aesthetic qualities

Evaluate their ideas and products against their own design criteria and consider the views of others to improve their work

Understand how key events and individuals in design and technology have helped shape the world

This term in Maths we will be learning about place value and the four operations. 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 leaflets to persuade, poetry and instructions and descriptive setting writing linked to our class text Clockwork, by Phillip Pullman. Within each unit we shall explore text features in terms of structural and content devices pertinent to the genre as well as learning strands of grammar that link in.

This term in science we will be looking at scientific enquiry. Children will be:

planning different types of scientific enquiries to answer questions, including recognising and controlling variables where necessary,
taking measurements, using a range of scientific equipment, with increasing accuracy and precision, taking repeat readings when appropriate,
recording data and results of increasing complexity using scientific diagrams and labels, classification keys, tables, scatter graphs, bar and line graphs,
using test results to make predictions to set up further comparative and fair tests,
reporting and presenting findings from enquiries, including conclusions, causal relationships and explanations of and degree of trust in results, in oral and written forms such as displays and other presentations,
identifying scientific evidence that has been used to support or refute ideas or arguments.

In PE we shall be taking part in swimming lessons on Wednesdays and orienteering on Thursdays with a coach from Premier Sport.

This year we will have Mrs Pretty joining us on a Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday as class TA and also Mrs Nicky will be based in our class. Mrs Bailey will also be coming in to hear readers on Mondays and Tuesdays.

Mr Dale (5/9/24)