2021/22

Term 1

This term Italian Ibex have been learning about pirates during our swashbuckling adventures in ‘Land Ahoy’! The children are learning about what a life of a pirate is like and how to become one.

English:

This term, we have been reading various texts linked to our topic. The children have enjoyed listening to different adventures that a variety of pirates have been on. We had an incident where the infamous Captain Jolly Roger was caught on CCTV stealing our treasure chest. He has demanded that the children become pirates to earn the right to own their treasure. This enraged the children to which some have written some very persuasive letters telling the captain their demands! We will await his response, hopefully in due course.

Maths:

In Maths, we have been studying multiplication and division. Children’s continued work in number, place value and their times tables, has enabled them to understand the concepts they have been taught to work out multiplication and division sentences. This has grown their confidence in the area, and most can work these out using different manipulatives and knowing all the number facts for a given calculation.

Science:

In Science, we have been looking at materials. We have had some great fun looking at what materials we could use to build our new school out of. We have also been looking at whether we can turn solid particles into a liquid and then back again. With this, we have also looked at how the particles change when melting chocolate with different chocolate.

Topic:

In our topic, we have studied the United Kingdom and some famous people from the UK's past. We have looked at the four countries of the UK and their capital cities, as well as some information about Maidstone. We have also looked at some of the characteristics of these countries and identified what makes them different, even though two of the three other countries border ours.

As well as this, we studied Grace Darling and how her efforts brought about the RNLI and put this young daughter of a lighthouse keeper into the history books. Even though this happened over 100 years ago, it is still relevant today, and the story fascinated the children.