Welcome to Air Class 2025-2026

 

 

Below you can find some key information about what we will be learning together this half-term.

If you need to get in contact with me as class teacher, please use our class email address: air@gkglt.co.uk

You can expect a response within 2 working days.

If there is anything that needs my immediate attention, please contact the office.

PE is continued to be timetabled for Thursday and Friday. Please wear PE kit on these days.  Please check our uniform policy to ensure your child is appropriately and safely dressed to participate in P.E. 

Summer 2

During this half term within our subjects we will be focusing on the following:

Topic - Geography: 

This half term in Geography, we are asking the big question “What is it like here?” The children will learn to locate features on an aerial photograph of the local area and know the name of the country and village, town or city where they live. We will make a map of the classroom including key features, using objects to represent the distance and direction of features in the classroom and recognise features in the school grounds using a map. The class will conduct a survey to understand how children feel about areas of the playground and review the results of the survey to help them design an improved playground.

English: 

Our story this half-term is "Here We Are" by Oliver Jeffers, a book with stunning illustrations and a beautiful message relevant to all of us. We will use the text to understand the world around us and explore how we can take care of it and each other. Our independent tasks this term will be a short sci-fi story from the perspective of an alien crash landing on our planet and a fact file of planet Earth.

Guided Reading: We will explore information texts about nature to retrieve answers to our VIPER questions. 

Maths: 

• Fractions
• Time
• Mass, capacity and temperature
• Position and direction 

Science: Making Connections - Plant Based Materials

In Science, the children will make connections from their previous learning to understand sustainability, identify and group natural and man-made materials, identify suitable materials based on their properties by performing tests and gathering data, make observations to identify materials that help plant growth and make their own plant pot using suitable materials based on the knowledge they gain throughout the unit.

Learning For Life - RSE and Transitions

Religion and Worldviews - Big Question: "How do people know how to behave?" 

The children will be learning about the 10 commandments and Jewish food laws, also looking at different days of rest in different religions and gaining an introduction to the Golden Rule. 

Music - Space: Contrasting Dynamics: Developing the children's understanding of contrasting dynamics by listening to music inspired by planets and creating our own space-themed compositions.

DT - Cooking and Nutrition - Smoothies: The children will be selecting fruit and vegetables and preparing food by cutting and juicing to create a smoothie to meet a design brief.

Key Information:

Sports:

PE is timetabled every Thursday and Friday. The children should come to school in their PE kits on these days.

Other:

Smokey Row is timetabled for Monday  afternoon (bi-weekly), weather and adult ratio dependent.