Slide 1 - Fitzmaurice Primary School

							               PSE Development                                           Physical Development                        Knowledge & Understanding of the World
       (Personal and Social Emotional)                         We will be focusing our learning in these areas:      We will be studying the history of the Kingston Mills
                                                                                                                              site in Bradford-on-Avon, including:
         SEAL unit – Going for Goals!                       Games - Developing our skills of performance, speed,
     (Social, Emotional Aspects of Learning)                             accuracy, and teamwork                              •A visit to the site (with hard hats!!)
                                                       Dance – we will be spending the majority of our PE time                •Researching the history of the site
 Make a long-term personal or learning plan and        developing our dance performances for the West Wilts
  break it down into smaller, achievable goals.                                                                       •Interviewing local people about the site and jobs
                                                      Dance Festival, to be held at the Forum Theatre in Bath on
                                                            Thursday 4th February (Wagtails and Robins)                 •Producing a glossy brochure, to be published by
Recognise when I am using an excuse instead of                                                                       Linden Homes, about the history of the site and local
       finding a way around a problem.                               Last year’s festival was incredible.
                                                                                                                                        people’s memories
                                                           The theme this year is Disney, we will be performing as
  In RE we will be finishing the unit on ‘I Am                                                                       If you have any information about Kingston Mills, or
                                                              characters from The Muppets and Jungle Book!!
David’, as well as learning about the beliefs and                                                                    know anyone who worked there, please let us know as
              teachings of Sikhism.                                                                                                    soon as possible!
                                                                                                                      Our science this term will be about Life Processes,
                                                                                                                       including how and why bloody travels around the
                       Learning                                                                                       body, what happens to our heart when we exercise,
   Developing lifelong learning skills is central to all                                                                                  and more.
    that we do. This term we will be focusing on:                                                                    Our ICT topic will be focusing on learning about the
                                                                                                                         uses of and the creation of spreadsheets.
      •Identifying the skills we need to learn and
       setting personal learning goals for term 3                        Robins/Wagtails
           •Developing our questioning skills                                Term 3                                    Communication, Literacy and Language
    •Knowing how we learn and ways to improve our                          Spring 2010                                         We will be improving our skills in:
                       learning
                                                                                                                               •Journalistic writing and reporting
          •How to be a great learning partner
                                                                                                                        •A study of the book ‘There’s a boy in the girl’s
                                                                                                                                          bathroom’
       Mathematical development
                                                                                                                                   •Revision work for Year 6
 We will be focusing on the following learning:
                                                                       Creative Development                              We will also be developing our oral skills, with
                 •Learning tables                                                                                          emphasis on discussion and questioning.
                                                              We will be continuing to develop creativity
            •Developing thinking skills
                                                       in all areas of the curriculum, including using ICT as a
                   •Calculations
                                                                 tool to use through everything we do.
   - Lots of practical maths, involving use of
multiplication, division, subtraction and addition         In art/design and technology we will be creating a                                 MFL
                      methods                               wall hanging based on the Kingston Mills site in              This year we will be learning basic french –
              •How to solve problems                         Bradford-on-Avon and the history of our town                           bonjour tout le monde!!!
  •Deciding on what steps are needed in any
                                                       We will also be participating in the West Wilts Dance                           Multi cultural week
             problem solving situation
                                                                               Festival
                 •Real life maths
            •Revision work for Year 6
                                                                                                                       PLEASE make sure your child is a member of the
                                                                                                                     town library – we will be visiting soon and it will be an
                                                                                                                        important part of our research work this term!