Information about Year 1 can be found here.
Information about Year 1 can be found here.
Welcome back! We hope you all had a nice half term!
This is a cross curricular theme and will be explored through all areas of learning.
Religious Education is central to all that we do and Collective worship and celebration are an essential part of this. Please pray with your children at home and help them learn the school prayers and the Our Father.
Our topics this term are Being Sorry, Islam and Neighbours. The children will discuss the times they have made good and bad choices and read biblical stories about forgiveness. They will then learn about the Islam faith and how it differs to the Catholic Faith. During our Neighbours topic we will be thinking about our neighbours across the world and how we can be a good neighbour to others.
Reading
The children will be doing lots of reading as a class, in a group and individually. This half term they will be reading a variety of fiction and non-fiction texts and answering questions about them. The children will continue to read lots of new words on sight and use their phonic knowledge to sound out new words. They will be encouraged to develop their comprehension skills by retelling / discussing texts they have read, predicting what might happen in a story and begin to make inferences on the basis of what is being said and done.
Writing
The children will continue to construct exciting sentences using adjectives and building up their use of punctuation. They will also be using conjunctions (joining words) to extend their sentences. The children will have opportunities to write their own information pages about the UK and our capital city London.
Grammar and Punctuation
The children will continue to learn how to use ‘and’ ‘because’ ‘but’ and ‘so’ to join words and clauses. They will continue to learn how to punctuate sentences using a capital letter and a full stop, question mark or exclamation mark. They will continue to add adjectives to make their writing more interesting.
Phonics
We will be continuing with Little Wandle Phase 5 and the children will continue to apply what they have learnt in Phases 2-4. Phase 5 will be looking at different ways of spelling the same sound (eg. ay in day and ai in snail).
Spelling books will be handed out every Friday so you can see how your child has done in their spelling quiz and to go over any incorrections. Please ensure your child’s spelling book is returned on the Monday.
In Maths, the children will be recapping partitioning, looking at the place value of numbers up to 100. They will also be working with money and making different amounts. Also, they will be learning to tell the time to the hour and half hour.
In Geography the children will be learning about the UK. They will be locating the countries of the UK on a map and will be learning interesting facts about each country and their capital city.
In computing we will be looking at Handling Data. We will representing information on a computer by making pictograms and block graphs.
In Art + Design the children will be designing and making a mechanical model of Barnaby Bear using card and different materials. They will use split pins to attach his arms/ legs and can choose if they want them to be fixed or movable.
In PE, the children will be doing Games. They will be developing their bat and ball skills and working in teams to compete in different games.
The children will have music every week with Mrs Hoskins. They will learn how to use their voices creatively and expressively by singing a variety of topic related songs and they will have opportunities to play instruments musically.