Mayfield Preparatory School

MAYFIELD PREPARATORY SCHOOL SUMMER TERM PROGRAMMES OF STUDY FOR UPPER II

MATHEMATIC  Calculating S  Measurement  Place value  Fractions  Calculating  Statistics  Calculating  Geometry  Fracxtions Children will be assessed prior to teaching each of the units above. Personalised learning will then be tailored to the children’s needs. Times tables will be reinforced daily.

ENGLISH Reading Comprehension: Making inferences, forming opinions, vocabulary work, considering an author’s intentions. Exam Preparation Writing: Non-fiction focus. Formal writing. Grammar: Clauses, adverbs, modal verbs, conjunctions, prepositions, hyphens and dashes, root words. Class Readers: Slave Girl and Holes

SCIENCE Forces – Children will continue to explore water resistance, air resistance and friction and will begin to recognise that some mechanisms (including levers, pulleys and gears) allow a smaller force to have a greater effect. Animals including Humans – Children will begin to discuss the changes humans experience as they enter puberty.

HISTORY Henry VIII. Tudor life: Rich and poor, houses.

GEOGRAPHY OS Mapskills : Symbols. Coastal studies: Features, how waves shape coastal environments.

FRENCH Numbers up to 100; the time; the present tense of the verbs in “ER”; tell what you like or don’t like; start building sentences of three words or more; changing statements into questions. RELIGIOUS Muslim beliefs and practice. Christian Bible and Christian EDUCATION/ beliefs and actions. PSD What does it mean to be a good person? INFORMATION & ICT Quest - Internet Searching Techniques, validity and COMMUNICATIO reliability, referencing, researching a specific topic. N TECHNOLOGY We are Cryptographers - Pupils learn more about communicating information securely through an introduction to cryptography (the science of keeping communication and information secret). They investigate early methods of communicating over distances, learn about two early ciphers, and consider what makes a secure password.

Grand Designs – We are Architects – Graphical Modelling using MS Word and Google Sketchup

ART Gustav Klimt – Tree of Life and gold embellishments Figures within Klimt pictures – decoration and fabrics study Mrs Klimt’s Washing Line – watercolour and mixed media painting PHYSICAL Short Tennis – ground strokes, volley, scoring. Participate EDUCATION in class tournament. Athletics – 80m hurdles, throwing, 600m, standing long jump. ESAA Awards. Prepare for Sports Day Girls – Rounders: core skills, adapted and full games of GAMES rounders. Boy – Cricket: core skills, adapted and full games of cricket. MUSIC Prepare performances for the Summer Concert through application of ongoing singing and performance techniques. Identify phrases through breathing in appropriate places and recognise structures. Sing with expression and rehearse with others. To keep their part in a 4 part round. Music through the Ages: Explore the typical conventions of music through the ages from Medieval Time to the Present day. Identify some of the Great Composers and how their music has helped create the music of today. DESIGN Pizza/Bread project. TECHNOLOGY STUDY SKILLS Developing knowledge, examination techniques vocabulary and speed in verbal and non-verbal reasoning. CURRENT Discussion and debate on topics which occur in the news AFFAIRS in the United Kingdom around the world. Learn about ‘Democracy’, one of the British core values, focusing on the EU referendum. SPEECH & Speech Festival – work on presentation, dynamics and DRAMA expression. Choose an individual poem to work on under a class chosen theme.