Maths

We will be practicing our addition and subtraction skills and applying these to real life scenarios including in the context of money. Year 1’s will be perfecting their counting in ten skills and finding more one and one less of an amount. We will all be practicing our number bond facts to ten and using these to answer one step addition questions. Year 2’s are going to be using their number bond facts as a foundation when finding related facts and they are going to learn to count in three’s, they then be able to use this to work out problems. Year 2 are going to be learning how to interpret tally charts, pictogram and block diagrams and will even have a go at making their own! We are going to visit our class shop to put our addition skills to the test, I am sure it will be lots of fun!

English

We are really looking forward to our learning journey focusing on the story ‘The Clockwork Dragon.’ The children will be informed that there is a fierce dragon on the loose in Cranktown, the town mayors will call them to hold a town meeting about it. The children are going to roleplayed how different people would be feeling and acting in this scenario. We are going to be practicing our use of adjectives to describe the dragon and write sentences to describe the characters. Our final outcome is a newspaper report so we will be learning what newspapers are and the children will then create their own newspaper front page including a catchy headline. We are excited to share these in celebration assembly! 

Our second learning journey will be studying the book 'The Storm Whale' by Benji Davies where the children will be writing their own letters to someone they care about. 

Geography

The children have an exciting new unit focusing on hiking! We will use the book ‘Hike’ by Pete Oswald to help us identify physical geographical features. The children will then practice their map skills and try and find Broughton on a map! We will be comparing Broughton to Utah in America and discuss how the physical features of these places are very different. The children will then plan their own hike about the village.

Computing

This term we will be focusing on a new digital device Beebots. We are looking forward to learning all about Beebots and how to use them. The children will understand the importance of using precise instructions to program these computers. They will work in groups to practice giving each other clear instructions and then create a ‘How to Use’ video to demonstrate our excellent programming skills.

Science

This is a continuation from last term’s unit ‘Forces and their Effects.’ We will use our prior knowledge to test out pushes and pulls on scooters. We shall predict what surface would be the easiest to scooter on and which would be the hardest. The children will be able to reason their answers using key scientific language. Using this knowledge will help us in our DT unit ‘Wheels and Axels.’ The children will explore different toy cars and we discuss what axels are. The children are going to be excited to design and make their own toy cars and evaluate them out on the playground.

Music

We will be working on our rhythm and storytelling. The children will start off by listening to different music and talk about what we could hear in each section. The children shall then work in groups to recreate the Three Little Pigs story using different instruments to make different sounds throughout the story. Our final piece will involve coming together to retell the whole story through instruments.

RE and PHSE

Our RE lessons will be based on the story if Easter and what Christians believe in. The children will start by thinking about what a believe is. In PHSE lessons we have a rights respecting focus and the children will think about how this is important to them.

We are also excited for the Easter holidays and will be taking part in the egg rolling competition and a very egg-citing Easter egg hunt! Otter’s class are also very excited to raise money for Red Nose Day and dressing up as our favourite characters for World Book Day.