Miss O Godbeer

Welcome to our class page! My name is Miss Godbeer and I am the class teacher based in Avocets full time. We also have Mrs White who covers my teacher time out of class.

On this page, I will outline what our Autumn Term 2 curriculum looks like. If you have any questions about this or anything else, please do not hesitate to contact me; my door is always open. Otherwise, please email admin@starcross-primary.devon.sch.uk

Here is a weekly timetable for Avocets.

Reading
This half term, we will be reading ‘Letters from the Lighthouse’. This book is set during World War 2. It’s a story that is wrapped in mystery, secrecy and suspense. When Sukie goes missing, her brother and sister embark on a remarkable journey to find her. The children are evacuated from London to the countryside and it’s there where young Olive and her brother Cliff will plunge into a mysterious, rollercoaster of an adventure to be reunited with their sister. Twists, turns, coded messages and conflicts prevail in this beautifully pitched story that provides a fine balance between sensitivity and adventure.

English

In English, we will be looking at instruction writing, focusing on using dashes to add emphasis, using model verbs and using commas to clarify meaning or avoid ambiguity. After this unit, we will move onto writing poems based on ‘Bethlehem’ by Carol Ann Duffy. We will focus on the objectives of using conjunctions, adverbs and prepositions to express time, place and cause and linking ideas using adverbials of time or tense choices.

Maths

This half term in Maths, we will begin with looking at Multiplication and Division before moving onto Fractions. We will recap our learning everyday using retrieval questions and will have weekly homework set on TTRS and Doodle Maths.

Science

Our Science unit this half term will be Forces and Mechanisms. This unit teaches children about the forces of gravity, air resistance, water resistance and friction, with the children exploring their effects. They learn about mechanisms, their uses and how they allow a smaller effort to have a greater effect.

Geography

Our Geography unit this half term is called ‘Investigating Our World’. This unit teaches children about locating map features using a range of methods. They learn about the Prime Meridian, Greenwich Mean Time (GMT), and worldwide time zones and study interconnected climate zones, vegetations belts and biomes. Children learn about human geography and capital cities worldwide before looking at the UK motorway network and settlements.

Design and Technology

This half term, our DT unit will be Moving Mechanisms. This project teaches children about pneumatic systems. They will experiment with pneumatics before designing, making and evaluating a pneumatic machine that performs a useful function.

PE

Avocets PE days are: Mondays and Wednesdays.

RE

In RE this half term, we will be looking at the key question ‘Why do Hindus want to be good?’

PSHE

In PSHE, we use the scheme SCARF. This half term, we will be focusing on the unit ‘Valuing Differences. The children will be discussing the qualities of friendship, how to have kind conversations with peers and talk about stereotypes.

Music

In Music this half term, we are very lucky to be having a keyboard workshop with Miss Patchett and will also be taking part in a singing unit.