This term the children will be focusing on the question ‘Do we live in a wonderful world?’.
Create
Do we live in a wonderful world?
How we'll be doing it...
Wow day
To introduce children to our create topic this term, our WOW afternoon will involve children exploring paints, colours, patterns and shapes through decorating a plain T-shirt in any design they wish. This is a super fun way to introduce the topic to children and will show them how everyone is creative in different ways and the designs will be unique to them!
Authentic Outcome
Art exhibition whereby parents can come into school and see the finished piece of art work and children can show their adults different techniques they have learnt throughout the term.
School Trips
This term we will go on a trip to Smithills Farm.
Subjects
Maths
In maths we will be focusing on simple multiplication and division, fractions, position and direction, place value (within 100), money and time. They will be working with lot of different concrete resources such as numicon, cubes, tens and ones and number lines to help them develop their knowledge and understanding of number. This term has lots of real life opportunities relating to time and money so lots of real life examples will be used.
Science
Our focus this term will be plants and seasonal change. Throughout this term their will be lots of opportunities to go out and about in the local environment exploring plants and growth. Children will become familiar with common names of flowers, examples of deciduous and evergreen trees, and plant structures (including leaves, flowers (blossom), petals, fruit, roots, bulb, seed, trunk, branches, stem). The children will all plant a bean and create a diary to observe the growth over time.
PSHE
The focus for the first half term is economic well being within this unit children will learn how they might get money, how to keep money safe, understand what the role of a bank is, recognise choices that people might make different choices about spending or saving money and understand a range of jobs are available and that different skills are needed for these roles. For the second part of the term focuses on citizenship. In this unit, children will understand the importance of rules, understand the needs of babies and children, recognise ways we are the same and different to other people, understand the range pf groups people belong to and begin to understand how democracy works
PE
Taught by Mr Griffiths.
RE
Through our RE days at school, the children learn about their own and other’s beliefs. Our question this year is ‘What do people say about God?’
Over the term we will cover:
Islam, Sikhism, Hinduism and Humanism
Computing
This term in computing children will focus on creating media – digital writing. The children will develop their understanding of the various aspects of using a computer to create and manipulate text. They will become more familiar with using a keyboard and mouse to enter and remove text. Children will also consider how to change the look of their text, and will be able to justify their reasoning in making these changes. The second part of the term involves children developing their programming skills using Hour of Code.
Art
This term the children will be focussing on drawing, colour and sculpture. The children will initially develop their drawing skills of line simple line drawing and developing texture. The children will move towards drawing observational drawing of nature such as leaves and will focus on artists throughout each element.
When focussing on colour children to build on their knowledge of primary and secondary colours and will spend several lessons mixing colours and developing confidence in brush strokes and effective uses of paint.
In the final weeks of the term the children will focus on several sculptures and will roll and coil paper to use effectively to build towards a final piece of artwork containing abstract painting using a mixture of primary and secondary colours with an addition on a textures image of a tree using a structure of curved and coiled paper.
Music
This term in music the children will explore the unit ‘Keeping the pulse’. The children explore keeping the pulse together through music and movement, by exploring their favourite things. In the second half of the term, children will develop an understanding of pitch and learn how to identify high and low notes. They will use this knowledge to compose a simple tune to represent a superhero.
Literacy
This term the children will focus on four texts. ‘Women who changed the world’, ‘Dogger’, ‘Just like Grandpa Jazz’ and ‘Neil Armstrong’ (Little People Big Dreams).
Throughout this term the children will develop their grammar and punctuation focussing on applying all of their phonics skills to apply alternative sounds to words to spell more accurately. Children will create fiction and non fiction texts to innovate stories and develop non-fiction texts relating to a famous artist of their choice as studied throughout the create unit.