Spring 2 Overview

Spring 2 Overview

Spring 2 Overview

 

Teachers :

Woodpeckers - Teachers: Mrs Clark & Miss Dunne  Teaching Assistant: Mrs Williams

 Barn Owls - Teacher: Miss Jones   Teaching Assistants: Mrs Jervis & Mrs Callendar

 Additional Support across Year 1: Mrs Butler

 

 

 

Important Weekly Timetable

 

 

Monday; 

Tuesday; Woodpeckers & Barn Owls additional PE day (come into school in the correct PE uniform)

Wednesday; Woodpeckers PE day (come into school in the correct PE uniform) and homework to be handed in

Thursday: Reading Books to be brought into school, new books come back on the Friday. 

Friday; Barn Owls PE day  (come into school in the correct PE uniform) and Reading books, Homework books and star words will be sent out

 

 

Curriculum Overview

Again we have lots of fun learning mapped out for the children this half term. We are really pleased with the work the children are also doing at home, so thank you all for your support in this. 

 

Literacy

 

Story - Where the Wild Things Are. 

In this unit we will be reading the exciting story of Max and the Wild Things. The children will be focussing on descriptive writing and developing their own stories.  

We will be focusing on:

  • Correct punctuation and word spacing. 

  • Correct Letter formation and letters consistently neat and on the line. 

  • Varying our adjectives to make our writing exciting. 

  • Using different suffixes -ed -ing and -est (verbs)

  • Using the prefix un-

 

Read Write Inc

Children will attend daily phonics groups based on their assessment. Children who have come off the phonics programme will focus on spelling and different comprehension style questions.

 

 

Maths 

Children will be doing daily Singapore Maths lessons. These lessons allow the children to explore a problem utilising a selection of resources to support their learning. This also allows the children to discover different methods to solve the problem and enables them to see links between the different areas of the Maths curriculum. There will be additional challenge involved to ensure mastery of number appropriate for every child's level of learning. 

This half term we  will be focusing on: 

  • Numbers to 100
  • Time
  • Money
  • Review of addition and subtraction within 20  

 

Topic:

 

Science

The children will be learning about Seasonal changes. They will explore the 4 different seasons and the weather types associated with these.

History

Children will be learning about the History of Space Travel. They will learn about significant individuals (Tim Peake and Neil Armstrong) and will be organising information chronologically. 

 

Geography

Geography this half term will link with our Science topic, looking at weather and the seasons. 

 

RE

During RE this half term, the children will be learning about Easter and Palm Sunday. 

 

Art

In Art, the children are going to be looking at using scrolling paper to make picture cards.

 

 

PE

The children are going to continue having two PE lessons per week. Children this term will be continuing with gymnastics and will be doing Dance lessons as well. 

Computing

This half term we will be continuing with digital painting. Children will familiarise themselves with painting programmes and be able to manipulate the mouse, or screen to create their own pictures. 

 

Music

We will be continuing to find the pulse, rhythm and beat of the music. Children will be Exploring Sounds, listening, singing and playing tuned and un-tuned instruments. 

 

PSHE/Jigsaw

This half term, the children will be exploring the theme of 'Healthy Me'

 

MFL

Children will be learning stories in Spanish and about Easter celebrations in Spain.