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Creative Curriculum – A Child’s War!

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What Are We Learning?

In English this half term, we will be reading Friend or Foe by Michael Morpurgo

Friend or Foe is a gripping World War II story from War Horse author and former Children’s Laureate Michael Morpurgo.

Evacuated from London, David and Tucky feel like the war is a long way away from their new life in the countryside. Then one night the skyline of the moor is lit up with gun flashes, and the distant crump of bombing miles away brings the war back to them and shatters their new-found peace. When a German bomber crashes, the boys feel they should hate the airmen inside. But one of them saves David’s life …

In the tradition of Goodnight Mr Tom, Carrie’s War, and The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas, Friend or Foe is a novel that takes children to the heart of a tumultuous period in history.

From the author of War Horse (now a major motion picture directed by Steven Spielberg) comes a stunning children’s story – loved by kids, teachers and parents alike. Michael Morpurgo has written more than forty books and won the Whitbread Award, the Smarties Award, the Circle of Gold Award, the Children’s Book Award and has been shortlisted for the Carnegie Medal four times.

In Maths, we will are looking at place value, addition, subtraction, multiplication and division.  We will also be looking at strategies to solve word problems.

In Science we will be learning about the human boy.  We will be focussing on the heart and circulatory system, looking at how blood is pumped around our body and why.

We will also be looking at exercise, diet and drugs and the impact that these have on the human body.

In PSHE we are learning about ‘relationships’. We will look at reconnecting with our friends, feeling safe managing worries, and what our roles responsibilities are.

In Latin, we will be looking at how some English words derive from Latin.

We will be following Charanga online this half term, looking at different beats and tempos!

In Computing, we will use Purple Mash to learn to code. We will control our own robot and create a simple game.