Autumn 1
For the love of reading text
The Selfish Giant by Oscar Wilde
When the Selfish Giant builds a high wall round his lovely garden to keep the children out, the North Wind blows, the Frost comes and the Snow dances through the trees. The Giant wonders why Spring never comes to his cold, white garden. Then one day the Giant looks out to see a most wonderful sight . . .
Children will be writing a character and setting description. The children will also be writing a letter.
White Rose Maths
Place Value, Addition and Subtraction
This half term we will be learning about place value and addition and subtraction. The children will learn about numbers to 100 and they will learn to count in 2’s, 5’s, 10’s and 3’s. In addition and subtraction, the children will learn how to add and subtract two 2-digit numbers across 10.
Geography/ History
Geography
Our topic this half term is a Geography based topic – Seasons and the weather
We will be asking the key question - ‘What are our seasons and the weather like around the world?’ We will be looking at seasonal daily weather patterns in the UK. We will begin to explore the world and why some countries are hotter or colder than others. We will then compare daily and seasonal weather in hot and cold countries.
Science
Animals including humans.
Our topic this half term is animals including humans. We will be looking at animals, including humans, have offspring which grow into adults and we will be looking at the lifecycle of a human from birth to death. We will also look at what animals, including humans need to survive.
Educational Visit
There is no educational visit this half term.
PSHE/RSE/ RE
PSHE
In PHSE we will be looking at what makes a good friend.
We will be looking at how we are good friends to each other, what we can do when we feel lonely and how you feel when you have an argument.
RE
In RE we will be looking at ‘What Christians believe God is like?’ We will be looking at parables and discussing what they mean.
Art/ D & T/ Music
Art
Our artist for this half term is ‘Ben Mosley. Children will be experiment using a range of tools and surfaces
DT
In D&T we are starting our topic on creating a bag. We will look at why they are needed and design our own bag. We will then develop our sewing skills to make our own bag.
Music
Our song for this half term is ‘Hands, Feet, Heart by Joanna Mangona.
Spanish
PE day
Our PE days are a Wednesday and Thursday. We will be focussing on boot camp, multi-skills and body parts and their functions.
Spellings/ Reading
Reading
Continue to apply phonic knowledge and skills as the route to decode.
Begin to read accurately by blending the sounds in words that contain the graphemes taught so far, especially by recognising alternative sounds for graphemes and words of two or more syllables.
Spelling
Recap of previous spelling rules
The /dʒ/ sound spelt as ge or dge, and sometimes spelt as g elsewhere in words before e, i and y.
Homophones and near-homophones
The /i:/ sound spelt ey
Exception words list
The /ɒ/ spelt a after w and qu.