In Geography, we will be answering the question ‘Where does our food come from?’ We will be locating North and South America on a map, investigate climate zones, learn about biomes and use the term Northern and Southern Hemisphere.

Our key questions will be:

•  How can our food choices impact the environment?
• What does it mean to trade responsibly?
• How do we get our chocolate?
• Where does our food come?
• Are our school dinners locally sourced?
• Is it better to buy lock or imported food?

In Science, our focus will be on “Animals: Digestion and Food.”  Children will learn the functions of key organs in the digestive system; the types of human teeth and we will investigate factors that impact our dental health.  We will also compare human teeth to those of other animals and make deductions as to the animal’s diet.

In English we will be reading “Jemmy Button” by Jennifer Uman, Alix Barzalay and Valerio Vidali.  We will discuss issues raised in the story and the children will be encouraged to express their opinion both orally and in writing.  We will also use the story to inspire the children’s creative, descriptive writing.  Later this term, we will be learning how to write clear explanation texts through our science focus on digestion.  

This term’s Maths will focus on the place value of numbers with up to 4-digits.  In doing so, children will be asked to order and compare numbers; count on and back in multiples and solve problems involving place value.  We will then move onto learning formal columnar methods for addition and subtraction.  Throughout the term, we will learn and practise the times tables up to 12x.

In Religion & Worldviews  our question is ‘Are all religions equal?’ We will be looking at similarities and differences between the ways people from different worldviews understand God. Expressing ideas creatively about how and why World Religion Day is important and making links between our work and learning from previous lessons.

In RSE and PSHE we will be discussing family and relationships by exploring the following areas:

• Respect and manners

• Healthy families
• How my behaviour affects others
• Bullying
• Stereotypes
• Disability 
• Families in the wider world
• Change and loss