Subject 

Teaching and Learning 

Parental Involvement- We encourage parents to choose at least one activity for each subject to support your child in their learning. 

Maths 

The children will be learning about multiplication and division. They will learn to count in 2s, 5s and 10s, recognise and make equal groups and use arrays. The children will also be learning about the fractions ½ and ¼. They will be finding fractions of an amount and a 2D shape. They will be learning about positions and turns and be using vocabulary like left, right, forwards, backwards, above and below. 

• Explore cutting an apple or pizzas into halves and quarters and compare which are larger/smaller. Share an amount to 20 into halves, quarter and see how many each person gets.  

• Give directions using left, right, forwards and backwards. 

• Your child can practise their Maths skills on Numbots (see login sent home).  

• BBC Bitesize (Movement and Turns) - Movement  

English 

English objectives will be covered through a variety of high-quality texts that will spark the pupils’ interest. The texts will cover poetry, fiction and non-fiction.  This term the children will write a recount, instructions in form of a recipe, a narrative and a non-chronological report. They will write poems on a theme. The children will learn skills to read aloud stories and poems, create story maps, do storytelling through drama and role-play and write in role. The children will learn grammar and punctuation discretely. 

• At home, read as many storybooks as possible from different genres, e.g information books, modern stories and poems. If you have visited a place or been somewhere encourage your child to recount that event using past tense verbs and use time adverbs such as first, then, next etc 

• Practise forming the letters of the alphabet using the letter formation phrases sent in the home-learning pack.  

• Look at simple recipes and discuss the layout and their features. Follow some recipes to make a food and encourage your child to re-write the list and steps they followed to make that food. 

Reading 

The children will be reading a variety of different types of books in their reading practice sessions that they have at school. They will have 3 sessions a week where we focus on using phonics knowledge to decode the words, read aloud with expression and then comprehension to show what they have understood from the text. The children will then bring home with them the book they have read in class to practice reading it again at home with you. 

• Please listen to your child read at least 3 times per week. Children who read regularly at home make the most progress, not just in reading, but right across the curriculum. Please ask if us if you need any support. 

• Be a reader yourself- let your child see you reading and talk about your enjoyment of reading. 

Science 

In science, the children will be looking at the seasonal changes in Spring and Summer. The main unit for science this term is Exploring everyday materials. 

They will be learning about the properties of different materials and the suitability of materials to make an object. They will also be classifying materials. 

• Choose some materials and look at the properties e.g., waterproof, absorbent, opaque 

• Visit the BBC Bitesize website and learn about materials: BBC Bitesize Materials  

Computing 

This term, the children will learn to enter information on a spreadsheet. Then they will learn coding where they will create and edit simple programs using code blocks.  

• Use the purple mash login that we are sending in the home learning resources packs and practice how to log in and browse through their working area. 

• Visit the BBC Bitesize website and learn about computer science and algorithms  KS1 Computing BBC Bitesize  

RE 

In RE, the children are going to be exploring the question: How do we know that new babies are special? They will look at naming ceremonies and different religious welcoming ceremonies for the birth of a baby focussing on Islam, Hinduism and Christianity. 

• Here is some key vocabulary we will be using with the children this term. It would be helpful to talk through these words with your child at home: ceremony, welcome, connection, promise 

Art 

Sculpture and 3D – Clay Houses 

The children will explore the way clay can be shaped and joined and use a range of essential skills for working with this medium. They will learn about the sculpture of Rachel Whiteread and create their own clay house tile in response.  

• Explore making a clay tile by watching the You Tube video on: Making a clay tile   

D&T 

Structures – Constructing a windmill 

The children will identify some features that they would like to include in their design. They will then make stable structures, which will eventually support the turbine using card, tape and glue. They will make functioning turbines and axles that are assembled into the main supporting structure. Finally, they will say what is good about their windmill and what they could do better. 

• Look at simple instructions how to make windmills on these video links and explore making on of your own: 

Making a windmill example 1  

Making a windmill example 2   

PSHE 

This term the children are learning about ‘Relationships and ‘Changing Me’ where they will learn to recognise and appreciate people who them in their family, school and the community and also cope with changes and identify what they are looking forward to when they move up next year.   

Here is some key vocabulary we will be using with the children this term. It would be helpful to talk through these words with your child at home: 

Relationship: family, belong, qualities, community 

Changing me: life cycle, mature, change, changes 

History 

Pupils will compare Royston now and, in the past, focusing on changes in the landscape and settlement. They will also explore changes in food, farming tools and transport over the years.  

• See the home learning tasks sent home. 

Geography  

The children will identify the different types of farming and the features of farms and fields. They will learn about the food produced in the UK and locate where different foods are grown around the world.  

• Visit the BBC bitesize website and find some facts about food and farming: Food and Farming 

PE 

Target Games- They will develop the skills of throwing, rolling and striking towards a target. 

Striking and Fielding- In this unit the children will develop their understanding of the principles of defending (fielding) and attacking (batting). They will be using skills such as throwing, catching, tracking and striking a ball. They will learn to score points in these types of games using simple tactics and by abiding to the rules.  

Athletics – The children will be running at different speeds, jumping and throwing equipment. They will also measure their performance and compete to improve their own score against others.   

Swimming – The pupils will learn about water safety and enjoyment of being in the water. They will learn to travel with a float and submerge with increasing confidence. They will begin to learn to use legs and arms to propel them through water.    

Staying active at home will support your child’s progress in PE. Here are some links to follow for some ideas: 

• BBC Teach: KS1 Physical Education - BBC Teach 

• Oak Academy: Physical Education lessons for Key Stage 1 students - Oak National Academy (thenational.academy) 

Music  

This half term, the children will do two units called: Swing-a-long with Shostakovich & Charlie Chaplin. In the first unit the pupils will feel patterns of beats in their bodies, swinging in time with a partner and marking the beat using simple body percussion patterns. In the second unit they will compose a soundtrack to a slip of a silent film and understand and use notes and dynamics of different duration. 

In the next half term, they will learn about a unit called: Tańczymy labada which focusses on internalising a sense of pulse through singing games. The pupils will sing confidently in Polish and play an accompaniment on tuned percussion. They will begin to understand how music helps people share tradition and culture. 

• Read about playing and performing music on the BBC bitesize website: Performing Music