Year 1/Year 2 Class

Teacher: Mrs Leonard

TA: Mrs Hill and Mrs Tilley

English

During the first few weeks together we will focus on good handwriting and complete the Grammarsaurus unit to establilsh sentence structures. We will share a book called ‘Troll Swap’ by Leigh Hodgkinson where the children will be describing the characters and using the ideas within the story to write their own. Following on from this, we will read ‘The Owl Who Was Afraid of the Dark’ by Jill Tomlinson. We will focus on non-fiction writing and the children will write informative sentences about owls. Throughout these units we will practise writing sentences using capital letters, finger spaces, full stops and apply the phonemes they have learnt in their phonics lessons.

All of the children will have a daily phonics session where they will revisit graphemes that have learnt, learn new ones and apply them to words and sentences.

Maths

Year 1 Maths– During the Autumn term, children will be counting forwards and backwards, sorting, finding one more and one less and will begin to compare amounts using vocabulary such as more than, less than and equal to. The children will be introduced to number lines, which are a great resources later on for addition and subtraction. The next unit is addition and subtraction. The children will practise using and drawing part whole models, finding fact families and bonds within and to 10.

Year 2 Maths-The children will build upon what they have learnt previously to count and make numbers to 100.  We will make numbers using Base 10 which will support the children’s understanding of how these larger numbers are composed. The children will be able to identify the tens and ones within each number.  Following on for this, they will add and subtract ones, tens and multiples of tens. At the end of the unit, the children will add and subtract two, two digit numbers (e.g. 27+14, 33-16). Every fortnight the children will complete a challenge to aid their problem solving skills.

Science

During the first half term, we will be learning about different materials and their properties and how materials have changed from the past. The children will be planning and carrying out a scientific investigation. We will begin to look at the seasons and the changing weathers and before Christmas we will study living and non-living.

Geography and History

In Geography we will explore our local area and draw maps. Our focus in History will be chronology and comparing childhoods from the past to present day.

Art and D&T

In Art we are studying and creating our own sculptures inspired by Andy Goldsworthy who uses natural materials to create lines and patterns. Design and Technology is designing and creating a moving monster using levers, linkages and pivots.

Computing

We will be learning about technology all around us and how to take digital photographs.

P.E.

This term the children will be developing their ball skills and sending and receiving the ball to a partner. The children will improve their aim at throwing at a target and enjoy a unit of dance.