Key Stage 1
Frenchwood Community Primary School | |||
What your child will be learning this half term | |||
Cycle A | Y1/2. | Spring 1 | |
English | Stories by the same author This half term we will continue to develop Key Stage 1’s writing skills. We will build our vocabulary and grammar each week, focussing on spelling, joining words, apostrophes and sentence structure. We will look at texts written by Smirti Halls, focussing on similarities in her texts and using this to create our own narrative, based on a model. Non-chronological reports This half term, the non-chronological reports will link to science. We will research and create fact files about different animals, noting their lifestyles, what they eat and where they live. | ||
Maths | Place Value Mass, Volume and Capacity Multiplication and Division Money | ||
Science | Animals including Humans. Your child will be learning to identify and name a variety of common animals including fish, amphibians, reptiles, birds and mammals. Identify them as carnivores and herbivores and compare their structure. Children will develop their skills of pattern seeking and identifying and classifying. | ||
PE | Indoor – Playground Games from the 20th Century Outdoor – Piggy in the Middle – Core Task | ||
History Geography | Grandparents’ treasures What games and toys did our grandparents play with? Are they different to the ones children play with now? Are any similar. Did our grandparents keep any little treasures, precious items that they may want to share with the class. What memories do they have of growing up in a different time and maybe a different place? Children will use first-hand information to find out how toys have changed within living memory. | ||
Art or DT | Textiles: Puppets Exploring different ways of joining fabrics before creating their own hand puppets based upon characters from a well-known fairytale. Children work to develop their technical skills of cutting, glueing, stapling and pinning. | ||
PSHE | Dreams and Goals: • Know how to set simple goals • Know how to achieve a goal • Know how to work well with a partner • Know that tackling a challenge can stretch their learning • Know how to identify obstacles which make achieving their goals difficult and work out how to overcome them • Know when a goal has been achieved | ||
Computing | Children during this term will be continuing to develop their skills of mouse control and using software to create pictures. They will be adding to the knowledge of certain tools on the computer and design a rocket. They will also be thinking critically to create instructions, follow them to build their rocket and then to evaluate their design. | ||
Music | In The Groove by Joanna Mangona – an easy-to-learn song that demonstrates different styles of music. | ||
RE | Islam. Why do Muslims believe it is important to obey God? | ||