Religious Education

We are following the ‘Come and See’ RE programme. It is an invitation for children to understand and begin to appreciate the wonder of all that is within them and beyond them.
Our first topic is Beginnings. We will explore how God was present at the beginning of the World and is present in the many different beginnings each day offers.

English

The children will explore different types of writing including stories, poetry, letter writing and non-fiction.
We will be working on conjunctions (a word that joins two or more phrases together e.g. and but, so, because, however).
We will also be learning about the four different types of sentences that there are: statements, questions, commands and exclamations.
We will be revising adjectives, nouns and verbs.
The children will also be learning about tenses ( which show the time of an action or a state of being as shown by a verb), specifically the present tense and the past tense.

Throughout the week the children will be heard to read individually and in guided reading groups. This will be part of We will be reading a range of texts: fiction, non-fiction and poetry. The children  will use their knowledge to work out, predict and check the meanings of unfamiliar words and to make sense of what they have read.
In our phonics sessions we will revise the Phase 5 sounds in theLittle Wandle scheme and then work on spellings. In Year 1 we will revise phase 3 and 4 and start Phase 5
The children will also practise blending for reading and segmenting for spelling.
The sounds that the children will be learning during the week will be given on Monday and  the children will have a ‘spelling quiz’ after they have learned them on the Friday.

Maths

This term the children will build on skills learned in Reception and Year 1. The children will develop their knowledge of place value and have an understanding of what each digit represents. They will continue to work on part-whole models to explore how tens and ones can be partitioned and recombined to make a total. They will order numbers and objects and use the <, > symbols to show the order of numbers.

The children will be developing their knowledge of + and -. They will be learning different methods to solve addition and subtraction problems such as drawing tens and ones and blank number lines. They will use concrete resources to help justify their answers. The children will be encouraged to solve problems and explain how they got their answers. They will be given the opportunity to work collaboratively to develop their number and problem solving skills. Throughout the work that we do, the children will be encouraged to solve problems and explain how they got their answers.

Science

In science the children will be carrying out their own investigations and developing the scientific skills of observing, predicting, measuring, fair testing and recording in a variety of ways. The children will also be learning about forces, movement and friction.

Computing

The children will be learning about computing systems and networks – information technology all around us and how it can help us at school and beyond.

Humanities

We will explore the human and physical features of the seaside. The children will be able to extract information from secondary sources. We will be looking at maps and creating our own.

Music

In music the children will play musical instruments and create musical patterns. They will use their voices expressively by singing songs and performing chants and rhymes.

Art and Design

The children will be creating still life pieces by recording from first hand observation and experience. They will explore how to create tones and tints by experimenting with changing a colour by adding white or black.

PE

PE will take place twice a week. On Friday, the LFA coaches will be running the sessions and there will also be a teacher-led day where there will be a focus on gymnastics and dance.

Homework

The children are expected to read daily.

Spellings are given out on Monday and there is a quiz on the following Friday.

English and Maths homework is given out on Friday and should be returned on the following Monday.