Welcome to our school
It's The Summer Term!
Curriculum Summary
ENGLISH: This half term our literacy focus will be writing about the different seasons and stories about journeys. The children will read the story of 'Rosie's Walk' by Pat Hutchins and will read how Rosie the hen goes on a journey around the farmyard where she lives, whilst she is unknowingly followed by a fox! The children will use prepositional language to write sentences about where Rosie the hen is, they will create their own descriptive maps of Rosie's journey across the farmyard. They will write character descriptions about Rosie the hen and the fox. This will lead to writing their own story of Rosie's walk. Later on in the term, we will be learning about plants and trees and will complete descriptive writing based on this topic and read stories about plants and trees.
READING: Reading is an integral part of everyday class life. Your child will read every day in class, either through guided, shared or individual reading. To support your child's reading progress, we ask that they read every night. Reading at home has recently moved online through the phonics bug programme, so please continue to listen to your child read at home and write in your child's reading diary. Your child will have a daily phonics lesson, following a synthetic phonics programme called phonics bug, where and learn to read and spell through blending and segmenting. This will support their reading skills. We have recapped phase 3 and phase 4 phonics over the Autumn term and are now focusing on learning alternative graphemes and pronunciations of sounds in phase 5. These sounds can be found to practice in the middle of your child's reading diary.
HOMEWORK - Spellings and Maths Quest: At the moment, the homework in Class 1 is to read but in time, Class 1 will have a weekly spelling test on Monday mornings. The children have opportunities to practice their spellings in class during the week. The spellings are sent home in a homework book the week before in order for the children to practice at home also. The children will also be given a 'Maths Quest' homework task every week based on the maths that has been taught in school the previous week.
P.E: Class 1 have P.E. on Wednesday afternoons and Friday mornings. Children will need a white t-shirt, black shorts and black pumps to take part in the lessons.
Mrs Townend will teach P.E. on Wednesday afternoons and Miss Kelly on a Friday morning.
This term, the children will be;
In MATHS: The children will taught through practical and written activities and will be learning how to:
In SCIENCE: children will be working scientifically by asking simple questions and recognising that they can be answered in different ways, observing closely, using simple equipment, performing simple tests, identifying and classifying, using their observations and ideas to suggest answers to questions, gathering and recording data to help in answering questions.
They will be doing this through;
In GEOGRAPHY/HISTORY: we will be learning about 'The Local Area', including local history and geography. The children will devise a simple map of the local area and use and construct basic symbols in a key. They will use their simple fieldwork and observational skills to study the geography of the school and its grounds and the key human and physical features of it's surrounding environment. The children will also learn about a significant person of the area of Bury, Robert Peel and find about his life and his work within the police force.
Sir Robert Peel (1788-1850)
In PERSONAL SOCIAL & HEALTH EDUCATION (PSHE): The children will be taught PSHE through our Jigsaw lessons. This term we will be particularly focusing on 'Relationships'. Children will be learning to;
ART/DT: The children will be learning to draw and paint to develop and share their experiencers in using colour, pattern, texture, line, shape, form and space and look at the work of Georgia O'Keeffe to create their own flower pictures. Children will also be designing, making and evaluating their own see-saw for the local park. The children will;
American artist Georgia O'Keeffe (1887-1986)
COMPUTING: Children will be learning about information technology and digital literacy.
MUSIC will be taught on a Wednesday afternoon by Mrs Gorton. Children will be taught to:
Key dates for the 1st half of the Summer Term;-
Tuesday 24th May - Platinum Jubilee celebration day.
Friday 27th May - School closes for the half-term holiday.
If you have any questions about the curriculum or would like further information please come and speak to me.
Thanking you for your support,
Miss Kelly
HOME LEARNING
https://www.phonicsplay.co.uk/ - phase 2, 3 and 4 phonics games
https://www.topmarks.co.uk/- Maths, English and Science games - type in subject and age group 'KS1'
https://www.teachactive.org/my-account?code=AYO3U - Maths and English home learning activities, right click and open in a new tab.