Gilbert

Summer 2: Week 4

In Science this week, we investigated complete and incomplete circuits, using a variety of components to do this. In PSHE, we thought about where we get our characteristics from and how this is connected to our genes. One day, we arrived to find some shells and bottles in our room, we had to write letters to fill them. We wrote to our merrymaid and tried really hard to use a variety of fronted adverbials.

Summer 2: Week 3

Gilbert class has had a fantastic Creative week. We have enjoyed workshops with Kinetika Bloco, learning how to drum and dance. We have created our own carnival headdresses and masks ready for our Carnival Feast at the end of the week and created a rainbow pasta to share with everyone for this celebration. We have also been learning about decimals, angles and mass in Maths. Some tasks in English have included writing love letters to our merrymaid in The Mermaid of Zennor, using the perfect present tense, and making predictions about what we think might happen as we continue to read the story.

Summer 2: Week 2

In Science this week, we investigated how to create an electrical circuit using different components and then drew diagrams to represent them, using the correct electronic symbols. We also had a mysterious visitor to our classroom and found lost posters around the room the following day, we thing it could be connected to our new English book, The Mermaid of Zennor.

Summer 2: Week 1

This week, we have enjoyed completing some work outside while the weather has been nice. In Science, we are learning about electricity and investigated how different electrical appliances can be either mains or battery powered. For Computing, we are using data loggers, this week we collected data for the levels of noise, temperature and brightness in different parts of our school. We have also developed our time telling skills in Maths. For English, we have started to write our own play scripts based on the story Tar Beach by Faith Ringgold.

Term: Summer 2

English:

Gilbert class are completing our learning through the text Tar Beach and then moving on to the story The Mermaid of Zennor in English this term.

Maths:

We are continuing with our hard work with 'Maths No Problem'.

Science:

We are learning about Electricity.

Topic:

We are learning about Natural Disasters.

PE:

We are taking part in athletics.

Computing:

We are learning about data handling and data logging.

PSHE:

We are thinking about how we change as we grow up.

Music:

We are focusing on reggae music.

Summer 1: Week 6

We had lots of fun celebrating Queen Elizabeth II's platinum jubilee. We made our own crows, decorated plates and enjoyed an afternoon tea!

Summer 1: Week 5

There has been some excellent art produced in Gilbert class this week. We are focusing on space in our art lessons and created these space scenes using oil pastels. We have also been practicing our division skills using concrete resources. 

Summer 1: Week 4

This week, we have enjoyed trying to make earthquake proof structures as part of our 'Natural Disasters' topic. We were only allowed to use paper straws and Play-Doh, we then created an 'earthquake' on the table.

Summer 1: Week 3

In English this week, we have been reading the start of Tar Beach. We have created freeze frames and considered what the characters may be thinking on the front cover of the book. We have also considered the importance of bridges as the George Washington Bridge is a prominent feature in the story.

Summer 1: Week 2

We have been working hard in Maths this week. Some of us have been focusing on adding fractions and simplifying them, others have been learning about decimals, while others have been focusing on multiplying 2-digit numbers by 1-digit numbers. Busy, busy!

Summer 1: Week 1

We have enjoyed starting our new book in English this week, it is called Tar Beach. We started by discussing what freedom means to us as this is a theme of the story.

Term: Summer 1

English:

Gilbert class are learning through the text Tar Beach in English this term.

Maths:

We are continuing with our hard work with 'Maths No Problem'.

Science:

We are learning about Living Things and Their Habitats, with a focus on habitats and what affects them.

Topic:

We are learning about Natural Disasters.

PE:

We are taking part in net games

Computing:

We are learning about data handling

PSHE:

We are thinking about relationships.

Art:

We are focusing on creating art about space

Spring 2: Have a look below to see what we are learning this half term.

English:

The whole school is learning through the text The Fox and The Star.

Maths:

We are continuing with our hard work with 'Maths No Problem'.

Science:

We are learning about States of Matter

Topic:

We are learning about World War II

RE:

We are learning about Peace

PE:

We are taking part in team games

Computing:

We are learning about data handling

PSHE:

We are thinking about healthy lifestyles 

Art:

We are focusing on creating art about space

Spring 1, Week 4: We are learning through the text Winter's Child this half term for English. We used prepositions when writing a postcard during one of our lessons. In Maths, some of us are learning about graphs and how to read information from them, while others are focusing on further multiplication and division. In PSHE we considered how we would help others who have had hopes or goals broken. 

Thursday 27th January 2022 was Holocaust Memorial Day. We thought about the impact of the Holocaust and what we hope for one day in the future.

Spring 1: Have a look below to see what we are learning this half term.

English:

We are learning through the texts Starbird and Winter's Child.

Maths:

We are continuing with our hard work with 'Maths No Problem'.

Science:

We are learning about States of Matter

Topic:

We are learning about World War II

RE:

We are learning about the Synagogue in Judaism

PE:

We are taking part in net games, including tennis and badminton

Computing:

We are learning about video editing

PSHE:

We are thinking about dreams and goals

Music:

We are learning about and using golckenspiels to create music

This half term, we are learning about States of Matter in Science. We have investigated differences between solids and liquids. Some were tricky to categorise, for example hair gel and shaving foam.

We have been thinking about how different scenarios can make us feel different emotions. We don’t always have the same feelings for certain scenarios but that’s ok!

Autumn 2: RE

This half term we are learning about Christian Festivals in RE. In our lesson this week we focused on Lent. Did you know that Lent takes place for 40 days before Easter and Shrove Tuesday (Pancake Day) takes place the day before Ash Wednesday, when Lent starts.

Gilbert class enjoyed experimenting with pitch and volume on different instruments in our Science lesson.

We had lots of fun learning the Mexican Hat Dance for Cultural Week.

Gilbert class enjoyed making a variety of dips during cultural week, we thought they were very tasty!

In Science this half term we are learning about the topic Sound. We have already created string telephones to test how sound is created, as well as how it travels.

Our new text for this half term in Varmints. We will be creating lots of different outcomes, including setting descriptions, poetry and retellings.  

After leaving our mummified tomatoes for a week, we compared them to a tomato that was not mummified. It was disgusting! 

In Science we are learning about the topic Animals including Humans. We carried out an experiment to demonstrate how the digestive system works. We loved it!

In English we are learning through the text The Story of Tutankhamun. We practiced mummifying a tomato and wrote instructions about how to do it.