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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 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.
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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
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English
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Writing 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. We will be learning how to use co-ordinating conjunctions (and, but, so) in sentences, using the suffix –ed for past tense regular verbs and using adjectives for description.
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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 practice 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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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.
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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
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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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Religion and World-views (RE)
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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.
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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: ceremony, welcome, connection, promise.
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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 explore 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 ‘Citizenship’. This will encompass exploration of rules, how to care for animals and young children and recognise our similarities and differences. We will also identify what being part of a group means and start to understand how democracy works. In the latter half of the term, we will consider what 'Economic Wellbeing’ includes, focussing on what money is, how banks and saving work and why people have jobs.
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Here is some key vocabulary we will be using with the children this term.
Citizenship: rule, same, different, need, care, choice, vote
Economic Wellbeing: money, bank, job, earn, spend, save
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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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