In English lessons we will use the story ‘Dinosaurs and all that Rubbish’ by Michael Foreman as inspiration for writing letters, leaflets and pamphlets. Through reading the story we will explore themes of dreams, desires and how to keep the Earth a nice place to call home. In our writing, we will learn to use -ing, -ed, -er, and -est as suffixes to change the meanings of words.

Year 1 Maths

We will continue to focus on adding and subtracting within 20. The children will use their knowledge of number bonds to 10 to make connections to number bonds to 20. We will then explore place value to 50. This involves counting forwards and backwards within 50, partitioning numbers within 50, counting on a number line to 50 and finding one more and one less. We will be continuing to focus on our 10 and 5 times table.

Year 2 Maths

We will continue our learning on multiplication and division through a mastery approach so that we can continue to make connections between quick recall of multiplication and a deep understanding of the numbers. We will be mainly looking at the 2, 3, 4, 5 and 10 times tables.

We will also be learning about  measurement, which will include using cm and m to measure lengths and then make comparisons between given measurements.

This half term, our Theme will continue to be about schools. However the focus will change to how schools in general throughout the UK have changed over time. We will look at how school dinners, the curriculum and lessons, equipment and rules have changed. We will also reflect on the similarities. We will be inviting parents/carers to join us to share their schooling experience in the first few weeks of the half term. More information will be provided about this soon.  

For this term's science, we have an exciting opportunity brought to us by Lidl. We were successful in securing funding to support the project. Children will be learning about the life cycle of a plant by growing our own produce, as well as exploring and discovering new flavours by trying new fruit and veg, and finishing the unit becoming chefs and creating recipes with healthy ingredients.

We will be revisiting previous learning by engaging our senses, and exploring vocabulary learned in our ‘materials’ unit to describe textures.

In RE lessons we are continuing to study what makes a place sacred with references to special places related to Christianity, Islam and Judaism.

In PSHE we will learn about our rights and responsibilities. This will include considering how we get on with others, how we can take care of the environment and ways we can be helpful.

In music we will continue our unit of ‘Exploring Sounds’. This term, the children will be exploring how sounds can be produced in different ways using voices and instruments. They will listen to a variety of music including Flight Of The Bumblebee and William Tell Overture, and will begin to recognize how composers use dynamics, tempo and timbre to bring a character or theme to life! We will learn to sing simple songs as a class, adding facial expressions and actions to enhance a performance.

Our computing learning this term is called ‘Robot Algorithms’ and builds on last terms learning about ‘Moving a Robot’. This unit develops the children’s understanding of instructions in sequences and the use of logical reasoning to predict outcomes. We will use commands in different orders to investigate how the order affects the outcome. We will design algorithms and then test those algorithms as programs and debug them.

Target Games is the focus of our indoor PE sessions which will  give us opportunities to practise throwing skill including over arm and under arm techniques.

Our outdoor PE lessons will focus on striking and fielding games where we will develop our hand-eye coordination and ability to strike a moving ball with a bat.