2023-2024

We are all well rested and ready to come back to school after the Christmas holidays. Back to lots of learning!

Maths:

Year 1: we kick of this year by revisiting our number bonds and partitioning skills. To do this we will do lots of practical activities including using our outside area. We will then use our excellent number bond skills to calculate one step addition and subtraction questions. We are confident with numbers 0 to 10 so we will explore and learn how to represent the ‘teen numbers’ next. We are then looking forward to learning how to tell the time to the hour and half past the hour. Miss Gibson is excited for us to practice.

Year 2: we are extending our knowledge by learning how to add and subtract a two-digit number to a one digit with and without bridging. We will practice this using empty number lines. We are also excited to learn how to tell the time to the nearest hour, half the hour and quarter of the hour. After this we will be looking at the mass of objects and estimating masses.

English:

Learning journey 1: I am Henry Finch

In this learning journey we will be creating leaflets to give advice on how to be calm and practice mindfulness. This story is about Henry Finch who is a bird who realises he is the first finch to have a thought. His friend Harry Finch is having trouble unjumbling his thoughts however and needs some help. 

History

Our topic this term is ‘History through the ages and studies the evolution of transport. The children will learn about the very first cars, trains and planes that were made and the inventors who were clever enough to create them. We will create a timeline of the famous people to show what came first. During this topic we are hoping to visit the motor museum Beaulieu to put our learning into real life experiences. 

Science

 In this exciting topic ‘pushes, pulls and their effects’ we will be learning about motion and how different forces effect this. The children will design and complete their own investigations into pushes and pulls and explore if you can both push and pull objects.

Music

‘Timbre and rhythmic patterns’ in this unit we will be using our voices as well as a range of tuned and untuned instruments to create a story through sound.

Art

Focusing on the illustrations from ‘Iris and Isaac’ by Catherine Rayner this unit will introduce the children to a range of mixed media. We will talk about the art learning journey. Introduce the concept of mixed media and combining skills to create a final project.

Computing

This topic is an introduction to algorithms and programming.

RE

‘Special books’ is our unit for Spring 1, and we will first focus on our own special books and why these are special to us then later in the unit we will learn about the Bible and Torah and why these are special to different religions.

PE

On Mondays we will be focusing on the personal skills of dance. On Thursdays we will be with Miss Haynes outside.

Rights Respecting

In this SCARF unit the children will be understanding how to look after others and basic first aid.

2022-2023

Geography

This term our topic is 'Food from around the world'. The children will learn the names of the continents and oceans by looking at a globe, atlas and learning catchy songs! We will start by finding out about hot and cold places in the world and think about their locations. We will then compare a cold place (Antarctica) and a hot place (Kenya). We will find out what grows there, what the landscape is like and what weather they have. The children will track the weather in England over a series of weeks and then compare this to Kenya and Antarctica. 

The children will finish this term by recommending a place that they would like to visit and creating a guide to it. 

D.T

The children are going to make a delicious fruit salad! We will start by learning about where food grows and how to keep a balanced and healthy diet. The children will then practise their knife skills (plastic knives and playdough) and then apply this to cutting, slicing and dicing fruit. After picking a person to make their fruit salad for, the children will then create their fruit salad to take home. It will be very tasty! 

Computing

This term our KAPOW unit is called 'Algorithms and debugging'. The children will begin by following tricky instructions, solving puzzles and learning technical vocabulary including 'decomposition' and 'algorithm'. 

Art

Our focus for this term is Printing! We will start off by trying lots of fun printing, using interesting objects like trikes, scooters and balls. They will then learn about the artist 'Orla Kiely' who uses printing in her work. Next the children will create their own plasticine printing stamp before moving onto using fruit and vegetables to print with. Finally the children will create an amazing art piece using their knew skills. 

Music

This term our KAPOW unit is called ' Vocal and body sounds- under the sea'. This term the children will be creating their own sounds using their bodies and collecting sounds for a performance. We will look at different instruments to make sounds that might be under the sea. Finally the children will try to write down their music and perform from a graphic score. 

P.S.H.E

Throughout this term we will be learning about 'valuing differences'. The children will learn about what is teasing, bullying and being unkind. They will find out about being a good friend and they will learn how to follow a rule. 

Science

This term the children will have green fingers! We will start the learning journey by thinking about what a seed and bulb are and what their differences are. The children will then have a go at planting a seed and bulb and find out what they are going to grow into. We will then move onto finding out how to keep a plant alive, by completing the cress experiment where we find out if it needs light/ heat and water to survive. Throughout this topic we will enjoy going outside, finding seeds and also planting seeds and bulbs in our outdoor area. 

P.E

This term our Tuesday lesson will take place outside. We will be learning how to pass balls, control a pass and defend. The children will use a hockey ball, netball, rugby and tennis ball. 

On Thursdays we will have a focus on dance. The children will learn to move in different ways, sequence two movements and create a performance. 

Maths

This term we will be covering the following units:

1. Addition and Subtraction (The Year 1 children will start to become more confident in solving one step problems to 20. The Year 2 children will learn about adding 10 and start to learn about bridging 10. We will also learn about the word 'commutativity'. )

3. Time (Dependent on the children's previous knowledge we will start to learn to tell the time! By the end of this unit everyone will be able to tell me the time when it is o'clock and half past. Some children will learn quarter past and quarter too. I will even challenge some of the Year 2 children to find out about the nearest 5 minutes). This is an area you can help with at home. 

4. 2/D and 3D shapes- we will be learning their names, properties and some of us will be comparing them! 

5. Fractions- The children did an excellent job of learning about what a fraction of a shape was, we will continue to build on this learning. 

6. Multiplication and Division- We will continue our learning in this area by learning about odd and even numbers, arrays and writing number sentences with the 'x' symbol. 

English

This term we will be completing the following learning journey's:

Learning Journey 1: Mama Panya's Pancakes. The children will enjoy finding out about an African market and about the characters in this story. We will learn about simple and compound sentences and also go over capital letters. We will then learn the features of a recount. Our outcome for this unit is a recount of Mama Panya's day. 

Learning Journey 2: Disgusting Sandwich. We will use this truly disgusting book to look at what would be in an awful sandwich. The children will have a brilliant time creating their own outside and then trying to convince me to buy it! We will then learn about writing instructions and creating our own recipe for a revolting sandwich. 

Learning Journey 3: Dr Seuss poems. Our final learning journey will use these fabulous poems! The children will try to learn some of these and perform them before writing their own version. 

Our class story books this half term are stories by Anthony Browne. Look in our book corner for lots of great examples!