Half term information Summer 1 2025

This term we have been learning about children in Victorian times, including the awful jobs they had to endure and the games they used to play. Our core text, ‘Street Child’ by Berlie Doherty, fitted the topic perfectly and enabled the children to get fully immersed in their learning by considering what life was really like for Jim Jarvis – a real Victorian street child. The topic produced some fantastic writing, including a letter the children wrote in character as Jim, to his sisters. We celebrated the topic with an amazing production about Queen Victoria, when the children made the audience laugh out loud with the jokes in the script and sang some fantastic songs.
 
The children really enjoyed both aspects of PE, with tennis taking place outside, and gymnastics inside.  We enjoyed a slightly different science topic, working with the harmony project and learning about sustainability through the enquiry question 'How do we keep our oceans amazing?'. The children loved carrying out their own research including finding out why sea stars are so important.