Welcome back to all our Owls!
After a restful festive break, we are back and ready to go. Spring term is a vital chance for all of our pupils to gain a greater understanding of all of our topics, especially for our Year 6 children, who will begin to have specialised intervention groups to strengthen understanding in key areas ahead of the SATs in summer. rest assured though, this term is still packed with fresh learning opportunities and fun. Take a look at Spring Terms Topic Web to get all the details.
On this Class Page you will still find the PDF timetable for the 2023/24 school year, which will tell you each topic we learn, as well as which days are PE days, for example. If you have any questions, please do not hesitate to talk to me.
Best wishes,
Mr. Manning and the Owl Class team.
Our Whole School Topic this term is 'home is where the heart is'. This will form the backbone of our topics this term. as we focus on the idea of home and belonging. What makes us settle down? What makes a community? Does our home strengthen and encourage us to explore new horizons?
Our key text this term will be the gripping historical account of Ernest Shackleton’s dramatic and inspiring expedition, detailed in ‘Shackleton’s Journey’. The children will have the chance to create persuasive recruitment posters to gather an intrepid crew: What would it take to persuade someone to leave their home and put everything at risk? As well as English, we will explore the rugged but vulnerable Polar Regions of the Arctic and Antarctic, the eco-stystems that we can find there, and the unique people that call the Arctic circle home: The Sami. we will also be taking inspiration from Sami textiles and clothing to create our own block printing patterns in art .