Autumn 1

For the love of reading text


The Bog Baby – Jeanne Willis
The children will read the magical story of ’The Bog Baby’. They will begin to develop their reading and writing skills through a variety of genres including drama, setting descriptions and character descriptions – using adventurous adjectives to describe the mythical creature.

White Rose Maths


Number: place value (within 10)
Number: addition and subtraction (within 10)


Geography/ History


My Family History
What was it like when our grandparents were children?
The children will explore similarities and differences between their own lives and those of people their grandparents’ age. We will focus on different topics, including homes, toys, shops and schools.

Science


Animals including Humans
We will be identifying, naming and labelling basic parts of the body. We will also focus on the different sense – sight, touch, taste, hearing and smell. We will look at which body part links to this specific sense.

Educational Visit


Park Hall Lake
New Brighton Beach

PSHE/RSE/ RE


PSHE – Relationships: what is the same and different about us?
We will look at the children’s likes and dislikes and discuss their interests and what they are good at. We will look at what makes them special and their strengths. The children will understand how their personal features or qualities are unique to them. We will recognise how the children are similar and different to each other and notice what they all have in common.

RE - Who do Christians say made the world?
Recognise how the ‘Creation’ story can fit with the ‘big story’ of the Bible and we will say what the creation story tells Christians about God, Creation and the world. We will learn how Christians say thank-you to God for Creation and we will discuss the links between the Creation story and our world now.

Art/ D & T/ Music


Art – Andy Goldsworthy
We will be constructing a piece of art in the style of Andy Goldsworthy and learn how to carve, roll and pinch coils using a modelling media. We will also look at making simple joins and we will create patterns (using a variety of mediums)

DT – Constructing a dream house (structure)
We will look at individual preferences and requirements in designs of houses and we will make a stable structure of a dream house. We will assemble the components of structures and the children will evaluate their projects and adapt their designs.

Music – Hey You!
The children will learn to move to music by dancing, marching, being animals or pop stars. This unit contains listening & appraising games, progressive warm-up games, progressive improvisation resources and a new compose tool.

PE day


Wednesday

Spellings/ Reading


Children are ranging from Phase 2, Phase 3 to Phase 4 in Autumn 1.