Cinnamon Brow CE Primary School

Welcome to Bucharest Class!

Here is what we are going to be learning about during the Spring Term

Our Full Curriculum can be found under: school information / curriculum overview.

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English

Spring 1: Escape from Pompeii

The mastery focus for this unit will be to:

• Group related ideas into paragraphs
• Build a varied and rich vocabulary
• Use inverted commas to punctuate direct speech(using dialogue to show relationship between characters)
• Use present and past tenses correctly and consistently 

Spring 2: Big Blue Whale

The mastery focus for this unit will be to:

• Use adverbs to express time, place and cause
•  Build an increasing range of sentence structures
• Use headings and subheadings to aid presentation
• Assess the effectiveness of own and others’ writing

We will also be working on the following:

• Spelling lessons four times a week
• Weekly spellings, grammar, comprehension and whole class reading tasks using the reciprocal reading approach
• Reading Plus in class and at home

Mathematics

In Year 3 and 4 we are teaching for mastery in our maths lessons. Through carefully planned teaching and the support of a 'Power Maths' scheme we enable all children to access the maths curriculum at their level and open up opportunities for all children to work within a mastery approach.

Mastering maths means pupils acquiring a deep, long-term, secure and adaptable understanding of the subject. The phrase ‘teaching for mastery’ describes the elements of classroom practice and school organisation that combine to give pupils the best chances of mastering maths. Achieving mastery means acquiring a solid enough understanding of the maths that’s been taught to enable pupils to move on to more advanced material.

As a teaching team across phase and with teaching assistants, we work closely to plan, assess and evaluate each lesson to ensure the needs of every child are met. Additional time can be given in the afternoons or mornings if a child has struggled with a concept or we feel they need some pre learning to aid them in their understanding.

This term across the key stage, we will focus on the following topics:

• Multiplication and Division
• Length and Perimeter
• Fractions
• Decimals (Y4) Capacity (Y3)

Science

Electricity

The children will learn to: 

·identify common appliances that run on electricity 

·construct a simple series electrical circuit

·identify and name its basic parts, including cells, wires, bulbs, switches and buzzers 

·identify whether or not a lamp will light in a simple series circuit, based on whether or not the lamp is part of a complete loop with a battery 

· recognise that a switch opens and closes a circuit and associate this with whether or not a lamp lights in a simple series circuit 

·recognise some common conductors and insulators, and associate metals with being good conductors. 

Forces and magnets

The children will learn to:

·compare how things move on different surfaces  

·notice that some forces need contact between two objects, but magnetic forces can act at a distance 

·observe how magnets attract or repel each other and attract some materials and not others 

· compare and group together a variety of everyday materials on the basis of whether they are attracted to a magnet, and identify some magnetic materials 

·describe magnets as having two poles

· predict whether two magnets will attract or repel each other, depending on which poles are facing.