English
- Fiction: story-writing based on Little Red Riding Hood, changing where she might go.
- Setting focus: exploring different settings using descriptive language such as expanded noun phrases and similes and making sure to use the correct punctuation for each sentence.
- Poetry: exploring different emotions using a class book The Colour Monster.
Religious education
- A focus on Christianity. We will be looking at significant important individuals and Christian celebrations.
Physical education
- This term we will be learning to play hockey. We will focus on moving with the ball and passing it to our team.
Science
- Animals including humans: learning that animals, including humans,
have offspring which grow into adults. - Looking at the life cycles of a penguin and finding out about the basic needs of animals, including humans.
- Describing the importance for humans to exercise, eat the
right amounts of different types of food, and have good hygiene.
Maths
- Learning to partition ‘ones’ and ‘tens’ into a place value chart.
- Practising counting forwards and backwards within 50 and comparing numbers to 100.
- Learning formal written methods for addition and subtraction focusing on digging deeper with problem solving, varied fluency and reasoning challenges.
Music
- Learn the song: Hands, Feet, Heart.
- Listening to and appraising different songs and talking about rhythm, pulse and pitch.
Geography
- Using atlases to identify the United Kingdom and its countries.
- Looking at the world’s continents and oceans focusing on hot and cold climates.
Computing
- Using the Purple Mash to programme, debug and create animations.
- Learning how to stay safe online.
Life skills / Personal, Social, Health and Economic (PSHE) education
- Just Right: learning about the different emotional zones in the Just Right tower and how to regulate our emotions.
History
- Learning to show knowledge and understanding of aspects of the past beyond living memory, and of some of the main events and people studied such as The Wright Brothers: who were they? Why were they so important to flight?
Art
- Mark making and practising line drawings.
- Looking at an artist called Matt Sewell who is well-known for drawing birds.
