Jersey is the sunniest place in the British Isles — about 2,000 hours of sunshine every year! ☀️The Jersey cow is one of the oldest dairy breeds in the world — dating back over 300 years! 🐄Jersey has its own parliament called the States Assembly — one of the oldest in the world! 🏛️Jersey is closer to France than to England — just 14 miles from the Normandy coast! 🇫🇷Mont Orgueil Castle has been standing for over 800 years — since around 1204! 🏰Jersey has one of the largest tidal ranges in the world — the sea can go back nearly 1.5km at low tide! 🌊Jersey has its own language called Jèrriais — a form of Norman French still spoken by some islanders! 🗣️The Jersey Royal potato has its own Protected Designation of Origin — just like champagne! 🥔Jersey is the sunniest place in the British Isles — about 2,000 hours of sunshine every year! ☀️The Jersey cow is one of the oldest dairy breeds in the world — dating back over 300 years! 🐄Jersey has its own parliament called the States Assembly — one of the oldest in the world! 🏛️Jersey is closer to France than to England — just 14 miles from the Normandy coast! 🇫🇷Mont Orgueil Castle has been standing for over 800 years — since around 1204! 🏰Jersey has one of the largest tidal ranges in the world — the sea can go back nearly 1.5km at low tide! 🌊Jersey has its own language called Jèrriais — a form of Norman French still spoken by some islanders! 🗣️The Jersey Royal potato has its own Protected Designation of Origin — just like champagne! 🥔

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🔤 📖 English

Homophones and Commonly Confused Words

Learn to tell apart words that sound the same but have different spellings and meanings.

✓ Homophones are words that sound the same but have different spellings and meanings (e.g. there / their / they're).

✓ Near-homophones sound similar but not identical and are often confused (e.g. accept / except, affect / effect).

🎼 🎵 Music

Musical Notation and Composition

Learn how musical notation works and explore the creative process of composing music.

✓ Musical notation uses a stave (five horizontal lines) with notes positioned to show pitch, and symbols to show duration.

✓ A crotchet lasts one beat; a minim lasts two beats; a quaver lasts half a beat.

World Religions: Sikhism

Learn about the founding, beliefs and practices of the Sikh religion.

✓ Sikhism was founded in the Punjab region of South Asia in the 15th century by Guru Nanak.

✓ Sikhs believe in one God and follow the teachings of ten human Gurus and the eternal Guru Granth Sahib (their holy scripture).

🪐 🔬 Science

The Solar System

Journey through the Solar System and discover the eight planets that orbit our Sun.

✓ The Solar System consists of the Sun and eight planets that orbit it, along with moons, asteroids and comets.

✓ The order of the planets from the Sun is: Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune.

📰 📖 English

Non-fiction Text Types

Discover the different types of non-fiction text and the features that make each one distinctive.

✓ Non-fiction texts inform, explain, persuade or instruct — unlike fiction, they are about real things.

✓ Different non-fiction text types have distinctive features: reports are factual; instructions are ordered with imperative verbs; persuasion uses emotive language.

🌞 🏛️ History

The Ancient Maya

Discover the remarkable achievements of the ancient Maya — from pyramids to calendars.

✓ The Maya were a Mesoamerican civilisation that flourished from around 2000 BCE to the 1500s CE, in present-day Mexico and Central America.

✓ The Maya built towering stone pyramids and large cities without the use of metal tools, the wheel, or pack animals.

🏖️ 🌍 Geography

Coasts

Explore how waves shape the coastline, creating cliffs, caves, arches and beaches.

✓ A coast is where the land meets the sea — the UK has around 17,800 km of coastline.

✓ Waves erode (wear away) cliffs and rocks to form features like caves, arches, stacks and beaches.

🦎 🔬 Science

Evolution and Adaptation

Discover how living things adapt to their environments and how species evolve over time.

✓ Adaptation is the process by which living things develop features that help them survive in their environment.

✓ Evolution is the gradual change in a species over many generations through natural selection.

🐉 🏛️ History

Ancient China: The Shang Dynasty

Explore the Shang Dynasty, one of China’s earliest civilisations, and its remarkable achievements.

✓ The Shang Dynasty (c. 1600–1046 BCE) was one of China's earliest recorded civilisations.

✓ The Shang developed one of the world's earliest writing systems, using symbols carved onto animal bones and shells (oracle bones).

🔢 🔢 Maths

Roman Numerals

Learn to read and write Roman numerals and understand how this ancient system works.

✓ Roman numerals use letters to represent numbers: I = 1, V = 5, X = 10, L = 50, C = 100, D = 500, M = 1,000.

✓ When a smaller numeral appears before a larger one, it is subtracted (e.g. IV = 4, IX = 9, XL = 40).

🌱 🔬 Science

Environmental Conservation

Learn how human activity affects the environment and what we can do to help protect it.

✓ Human activities such as deforestation, pollution and burning fossil fuels are damaging the Earth's ecosystems.

✓ Climate change — caused by the build-up of greenhouse gases — is causing global temperatures to rise, affecting weather and wildlife.

✏️ 📖 English

Fronted Adverbials

Learn how to use fronted adverbials to vary your sentence structure and add detail to your writing.

✓ A fronted adverbial is a word, phrase or clause that describes when, where, how or how often — placed at the start of a sentence.

✓ A comma is placed after a fronted adverbial to separate it from the main clause.

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