Welcome to Falcons 

Class Teacher - Miss Dunn

LSP - Mrs Giles and Mrs Patel

email:     class.falcons@burnttree.sandwell.sch.uk

Our learning

Summer term

Maths

In our Maths lessons, we will be covering the following areas: multiplication, division, fractions money and time. 

We will also be building on the incredible progress we made last term in regard to recalling our times tables.

English

This term in English, we will be reading ‘The Twits' by Roald Dahl.  We will be using this text as inspiration for writing a detailed character description as well as a balance argument.

Throughout the term, we will be learning key spelling rules linked to Spelling Shed.  We will study a rule every week and then learn words that follow that rule. The games on Spelling Shed really help us to do this!

Reading

Our guided reading text this term is 'Kensuke's Kingdom' by Michael Morpurgo. We will study a chapter every week and from time to time, we will use film to enhance our learning.  Our reading focus this term will be on making inferences based on a character’s actions and thoughts and on making predictions based on the text.

Throughout the term, we will also be reading a range of non-fiction texts, focusing on the features and structure.

Science

This term, we will be focussing on the three states of matter.  During this unit of work, we will look at the properties of each state of matter before delving more deeply into questions such as: do gases have mass? Can all changes in state be reversed? Is condensation a process of cooling or

History

 

In History, we will be learning about how children’s lives have changed across the ages. We will be investigating what type of jobs they used to have, if they went to school and comparing that to everyday life as we know it today.

 

Geography

In Geography, we will be learning about rivers and the water cycle. In this unit, we will learn about the journey water goes on and how it has been in our system since the dinosaurs.

 

Art

In Art, we will explore nature through crafting designs for use on fabric.

During this unit, we will develop our sketching skills using animals and plants from the rainforest as inspiration.  We will then create a repeating pattern  inspired by our sketches.

 

DT

In DT, we will be completing two units of work: cooking and nutrition and structures.

During cooking and nutrition, we will work to a budget to adapt an existing recipe for biscuits using additional ingredients.

When working with structures, we will design and build pavilions. 

 

 

PE

Our PE lessons are on Tuesdays and Wednesdays.

Our topics for the first half-term are cricket and rounders.

During both of these units, we will work on throwing and catching skills as well as the different types of bat work.  In addition to this, we will develop our game play and strategy skills.

Computing

During this term, we will develop our computational thinking.  We will work on decomposition and abstraction in order to solve problems.  These skills will then be used to code, refine and evaluate algorithms.

French

In French, we will continue to develop our vocabulary and grammatical understanding of the language by learning numbers to 31, days of the week and months of the year. 

RE

This term, we will focus on the Christian festival of Pentecost.  We will learn about the importance of this festival in the Christian faith as well as how the festival is celebrated around the world. 

PSHE

 

After the half-term, our topic will be ‘Safety and the Changing Body’.

Here, we will learn about the reasons for legal age restrictions as well as understanding how quickly information can spread across the internet and some of the risks associated with this.  We will also learn about some of the changes some children may already have gone through and begin to learn how we will change physically as we grow into adults.

Look what we have been doing...

World Book Day 2026

 

 

 

Art

We practised our collaborative working skills in order to create large scale printed works based on the individual collages we had created.

 

 

 Art

In Art, we have been learning to develop our drawing skills. We used several pencil tones when shading to create a simple 3D effect. We also used charcoal and rubber to show areas of light and dark in our drawings. We have also learnt to use different tools to create marks and patterns by scratching into a painted surface. 

 

                                        
                                  

  Maths

In Maths, we have been learning to represent numbers to 10,000.  We used place value counters to represent different numbers.