Year 1/Year 2 Class

Teacher: Mrs Leonard

Teaching assistants: Mrs Hill, Mrs Davies

English

Our first text of the term will be Tidy by Emily Gravett about a badger who cannot stop tidying until there is nothing left for the animals on the wood. Year 1 will be continuing to use the conjunction ‘and’ to join sentences, review the use of the prefix un– to mean ’not’, and continue to embed the punctatution that that they learnt so far. Year 2’s will continue to use a variety of conjunctinos in their writing, learn about homophones (hole/whole, see/sea), review the suffixes -er, –est to compare more than one object and be introduced to contractions (I will-I’ll). The final text of the term will the ‘The Tempest’. Many of the above skills will be reviewed but will include writing descriptions in the correct tense using expanded noun phrases (his long, scruffy beard) and Year 2 children will learn about the use of the suffix –ful and –ment.

Maths

Year 1 – This term the children will begin to understand the concept of multiplication and division. The children will learn how to recognise and find half or a quarter of a shape or amount.  They will spends some time learning about position and direction before moving back to place value but this time to 100. They will finish the year learning about money and time.

Year 2 –  We will complete out work on telling the time before moving onto statistics where the children will learn about interpreting data from tables and pictograms. Finally the children will learn about position and direction as they explore turns and movements.

Science

Science this term is learning about living things and their habitats. The children learn about the different environments and how each one is suited to the needs to the animal or plant and that animals obtain their food from plants and other animals, using the idea of a simple food chain.

Geography and History

In History, the children will be find out about significant explorers, name the equipment and transport that they used and begin to see how this has changed over time.

In Geography, we will review human and physical features, use our knowledge of keys to draw a simple map and locate the seven continents on a map or atlas. We use a variety of sources to find out about Shanghai and find and name some human and physical features. Finally the children will use what they have learnt to compare Shanghai to Minsterley.

Art and D&T

In Art we will be learning about the colours, shapes and patterns used in African art to inspire some of our own pieces of artwork.

In D&T we will be flying kites as we learn about the structures required to make a kite.

Computing

We will be exploring programmes that allow us to make music (Chrome Music Lab) and  programming using Scratch. As in the previous term, the children will also have 2 e-safety lessons.

P.E.

This term the children will be practising their athletics, fundamental skills, fitness and striking and fielding.

R.E

This term the children will be learning how should we care for others and the world and answering the question, what does it mean to belong to a faith community?

Music

Our Music lessons this term are based around Fantasy and Adventure.