Welcome to our Summer 1 curriculum! This half term, our topic is Vanity Fair. In English, children will read Shocking Styles, explore fashion changes, and create persuasive adverts and information texts. In Maths, we'll focus on fractions, including wholes, parts, and equivalent fractions. Our Science unit is about Plants, where children will investigate what plants need to grow and their life cycles. In Topic lessons, we’ll explore Fairtrade and Fast Fashion, examining the impact of fashion on people and the environment. In RE, we’ll learn about Sikhism and explore key sayings and teachings. In DT, children will design, make, and evaluate their own purses using textile skills. In Computing, they will learn desktop publishing, creating documents with text and images. Finally, in PSHE, we’ll focus on Relationships, helping children understand healthy friendships, teamwork, and conflict resolution.

English 

This half term in English, our topic is Vanity Fair. Children will be reading an e-book called Shocking Styles, learning about how fashion has changed over time and discovering some of the most surprising trends from history. They will then use what they have learned to write a persuasive advert in the style of a choppy chopines advert, focusing on the features of persuasive writing such as powerful adjectives and rhetorical questions. Following this, they will research a range of shocking styles and accessories that interest or surprise them, before writing an informative text to share their findings. Throughout the unit, children will develop their research, writing and critical thinking skills while exploring how fashion can reflect identity and culture.

Maths

In Maths, children will learn to recognise and show equivalent fractions using diagrams and fraction walls, as well as compare and order fractions on a number line using bar models and comparison signs (<, >, =). They will add and subtract fractions with the same denominator, solving problems in different ways and discussing the efficiency of methods used. Children will also develop their understanding of time by learning to read, estimate, and measure it accurately, including times of day they may not often experience, and apply this knowledge to a range of real-life problem-solving situations.