Holland Junior School

Our new IPC topic for the summer term is Fairgrounds where we will be exploring how fairground rides are designed to ignite our senses, through fear and excitement. We will look at how these rides are powered in a way which enables them to speed up and slow at the right time whilst staying on a track that twists upside down! It is sure to be a thrilling ride this term!

As Geographers we will:

• Explore where theme parks are located and how this impacts quality of life in the area.
• Understand how fairgrounds and theme parks can adopt more sustainable practices.

As Scientists we will:

• Understand Newton’s 3 laws of motion.
• Understand how a hypothesis supports our scientific conclusions.
• Plan and carry out a fair test.
• Explore how frictions affects movement.
• Understand the effect of different forces.

English

This term we will be:

• Developing our formal writing techniques and style.
• Exploring the features of a newspaper article and apply to our own newspaper reports.
• Exploring the purpose and key features of biographies.
• Appling our understanding of biographies to write our own about a famous person.
• Continuing to develop our reading skills focusing on deduction, inference and how we can use evidence from the text to support our view point.

Maths

We are continuing to work extremely hard in our maths lessons and will be focusing on the following areas this term:

• Solving a range of problems using reasoning skills.
• Revising and revisit a range our athematic skills and apply to a range of questions.
• Explore angles within different shapes.
• Identify the properties of 2D and 3D shapes.
• Interpret and produce graphs.