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Subject
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Teaching and Learning
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Parental Involvement- we encourage parents to choose at least one activity for each subject to support your child in their learning.
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Maths
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The children will learn about fractions where they will recognise and find ½, ¼, 1/3 and ¾ of amounts and shapes. They will also learn to read o’clock, half past, quarter past, quarter to and 5-minute intervals times on analogue clocks.
In statistics, they will make, draw and interpret tally charts, pictograms and block graphs.
They will also learn to describe positions, turns and movement.
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Explore cutting an apple or pizzas into different fractions e.g halves, quarters, thirds and compare which are larger/smaller. Share an amount to 20 into halves, quarters and thirds by sharing and see how many each person gets.
Practise reading time on an analogue clock to o’clock, half-past, quarter past and quarter to times. Discuss the position of the hour and minute hand for each time.
Your child can practise their Maths skills on TTRs (see login sent home).
-ICT Maths games (Time): ICT Games
-BBC Bitesize Data & Statistics
-BBC Bitesize Movement and Turns
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English
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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 the 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 stories aloud and poems, create story maps, do storytelling through drama and role-play and write in role. The children will learn grammar and punctuation discretely.
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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.
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Reading
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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 when 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 practise reading it again at home with you.
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Please listen to your child read at least 4 times per week. Children who read regularly at home make the most progress, not just in reading, but right across the curriculum. Please ask us if you need any support.
Be a reader yourself - let your child see you reading and talk about your enjoyment of reading.
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Science
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Living things and their habitats & Living things and their habitats around the world
This term the children will explore and compare the differences between things that are living, dead, and things that have never been alive by thinking about life processes.
They will identify and compare different habitats, describe how habitats provide for the basic needs of different animals and plants.
They will also name different plants and animals found in different habitats and microhabitats. They will learn how these habitats provide for the basic needs of these living things.
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Visit the BBC Bitesize website to explore the different units of learning about living things and their habitats: Habitats
Go around your house and the local area. Look at the different animals and plants that grow there. Discuss how the environment differs from area to area. Look at microhabitats such as under stones or dried leaves and see what animals live there. How are these areas same and different?
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Computing
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This term, the children will learn to create mind maps to organise and present ideas. Then they will learn coding, where they will create and edit simple programs using code blocks.
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Visit the BBC Bitesize website and learn about computer science and algorithms: Computer Science
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RE
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How do some people talk to God?
This term the children will describe what prayer means, identify some reasons why people might pray and identify some similarities and differences between the ways in which people pray. They will look at why special objects and items of clothing are important to some people when they pray. They will draw connections between prayer practices within the Hindu, Muslim and Jewish world views.
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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: Allah, Brahman, communicate, deity, mandir, mosque, prayer, puja Qur'an, scripture, shrine etc.
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Art
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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.
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Explore making a clay tile by watching the You Tube video on: Making a Clay Tile
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D&T
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Cooking and Nutrition - Smoothies
The children will identify if a food is a fruit or vegetable, and then they will where plants grow and which parts we eat. They will then select, plan and prepare fruits to make a smoothie and then evaluate their product.
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Look at simple smoothie recipes in recipe books and on the internet and try making your own smoothie at home.
Explore and discuss the different ways a variety of fruits need peeling, cutting and preparing whilst making the smoothie.
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PSHE
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This term the children are learning about ‘Citizenships’, Economic Wellbeing and ‘Transition’. They will learn to recognise and appreciate people who re in their family, school and the local community and their responsibilities. They will learn about where money comes from, explore about wants and needs and discuss the role of a bank account and cards. They will also identify what they are looking forward to when they move up to Year 3 next year.
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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:
rules, responsibility, community, democracy, election, vote, income, government, workplace, want, need, change etc .
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History
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In history, the children will be learning about the history of flight. We will be exploring the question ‘How did we learn to fly?’ over a sequence of six lessons. We will be exploring who the Wright brothers; Bessie Coleman and Amelia Earhart were and why they were significant. We will also be learning about the moon landing
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How has transport in the air changed? - BBC Bitesize
Who helped flight take off? - BBC Bitesize
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Geography
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In geography this term, we will be exploring the question ‘What can you see at the coast?’ over a sequence of six lessons. We will learn about the features of the UK, the seas and oceans and how people use our local area / the coast.
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What is a coastal habitat? - KS1 Science curriculum - BBC Bitesize
The UK and its surrounding seas KS1 | Y2 Geography Lesson Resources | Oak National Academy
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PE
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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.
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Staying active at home will support your child’s progress in PE.
Here are some links to follow for some ideas:
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Music
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This term, we will be using the music of Vivaldi's 'The Four Seasons'. This unit aims to embed the interrelated dimensions of pulse, dynamics, tempo, rhythm and pitch through performance, improvisation and composition activities. Pupils will be given opportunities to perform and improvise music using their voices, bodies, tuned and untuned instruments. They will explore, select and combine sounds to create their own musical responses to the four patterns and the music of Vivaldi.
Pupils will have the opportunity to listen to each other's work as well as listening to a selection of music from Vivaldi's 'The Four Seasons.
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Key Stage 1 Music: Thunder Jam with Vivaldi weather - BBC Teach
Myleene Klass on Vivaldi's Four Seasons | BBC Teach - YouTube (please note this video is on YouTube – we recommend supervising your child if they are accessing this link).
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