Summer 2
For the love of reading text
Paddington Bear – Michael Bond
The Paddington Bear books have been a family favourite for many years and the children will certainly enjoy reading all about this loveable bear. They will show of their range of writing skills during story writing lessons, sequencing and retelling the story.
The children will also be writing letters/postcards to the Brown family and postcards back to Paddington’s Aunt Lucy in Peru.
White Rose Maths
Number: place value (within 100)
Measurement: money
Measurement: time
Geography/ History
Great Inventions – Can we name and explore some great inventions?
In this History unit, the children will be investigating inventors such as Alex Bell, Karl Benz and the Wright Brothers.
We will be using sources to compare similarities and differences between phones, cars and aeroplanes from the past and present.
Science
Seasonal Changes
We will be observing changes across the four seasons and describe the weather associated with the seasons and how day length varies.
Educational Visit
Canalside – Fruit Picking
PSHE/RSE/ RE
PSHE – How can we look after each other and the world?
We will focus on how people and animals need to be looked after and cared for. We will understand what can harm the local and global environment and begin to understand how the children can help and care for it.
RE – What makes some placed sacred to believers?
We will be recognising some of the words of the Shema as a Jewish prayer and know how Jewish ideas of God impact the lives of believers. We will find out how Jewish people remember God in different ways.
Art/ D & T/ Music
Art – Henri Rousseau
We will be focusing on observing patterns and exploring a variety of textures.
DT – Making a moving story book (Mechanisms)
We will explore slider mechanisms and the movement they output, to design, make and evaluate a moving storybook.
Music – Reflect, Rewind and Replay
This Unit of Work consolidates the learning that has occurred during the year. All the learning is focused around revisiting songs and musical activities, a context for the History of Music and the beginnings of the Language of Music.
PE day
Monday morning
Spellings/ Reading
Children are ranging from Phase 3 to Phase 5 Unit 4 in Summer 1 – looking at alternate sounds for reading and spellings. Spelling tests are on Monday mornings.
Summer 1
For the love of reading text
Man on the moon – Simon Bartram
Meet Bob, everyone’s favourite man on the moon! Let’s propel ourselves into outer space and explore Bob’s world. Once there, we will be writing home to let everyone on earth know what life on the moon is really like.
We’ll also be describing Bob; giving us the chance to show off our fabulous adjective skills and develop our sentence writing.
White Rose Maths
Number: Multiplication and division.
Number: Fractions
Geometry: Position and direction
Geography/ History
History – The greatest people!
We will be diving into the recent past and exploring the life and legacy of some of the most famous people in history.
Why was Florence Nightingale so important? Who was Neil Armstrong? What did Christopher Columbus discover? We will also answer the question: how did they contribute to international history?
Science
Plants
We will be growing our own plants so that we can observe the changes that a seed or bulb will go through. We will also be exploring common wild plants and trees and explore what an evergreen and deciduous tree is. We will use our observation skills and new knowledge to label the parts of common plants and trees.
Educational Visit
NA
PSHE/RSE/ RE
PSHE – Who helps to keep us safe?
We will understand who can help us and what to do if we feel unsafe. We will continue our discussions about safe and trusted adults and talk about what to do to make sure we are heard by these.
RE – Who is Jewish and how do they live?
We will recognise the words of the Shema as a Jewish prayer and talk about stories that are special in Jewish celebrations. We will look at how Jewish people celebrate special times, and make links between Jewish ideas of God found in the stories and how people live. We will talk about what we think is good about reflecting, thanking, praising and remembering for Jewish people too.
Art/ D & T/ Music
Art – Henri Rousseau
We will be focusing on using a range of materials creatively to design and make products, exploring textures and observing and drawing landscapes using observations and imagination.
DT – Making a moving story book
We will explore slider mechanisms and the movement they output, to design, make and evaluate a moving storybook based on the Greatest People topic.
Music – Your Imagination
In this unit we will explore songs that focus around our imagination. We will learn a range of songs and begin to improvise these using our previously learnt skills.
PE day
Monday morning
Spellings/ Reading
Children are ranging from Phase 3 to Phase 5 Unit 3 in Summer 1 – looking at alternate sounds for reading and spellings.
To prepare for the phonics screening, we will be recapping the phase 5 sounds and skills: rereading some books when necessary.
Spring 2
For the love of reading text
Old Bear – Jane Hissey
It’s time to bring Old Bear back to the playroom! Old Bear has been up in the attic for a very long time, but he hasn’t been forgotten. Bramwell Brown leads the toys on a rescue mission to bring their friend, Old Bear, safely back home.
We will be focusing on a setting description and sequencing and retelling the story. We will also look at acrostic poems.
White Rose Maths
Measurement - Length and Height. Mass and Volume.
Geography/ History
Geography – Let’s Take a Trip Overseas! Where in the world are we?
The children will explore and start to understand continents, places that are near/far and we will look at the UK in more detail. We will gain an understanding of north, south, east and west. We will look at the surrounding oceans and how Mali, Timbuktu (Africa) is similar and different to London using human and physical geography.
Science
Animals including Humans
We will be covering carnivores, omnivores and herbivores and identifying and naming specific animals that eat these food types. We are looking at the structure of these animals.
Educational Visit
Peak Wildlife – we will be carrying out workshops looking at animals and their habitats and what they eat. This links to our Science topic Animals including Humans.
PSHE/RSE/ RE
PSHE – What can we do with money?
We will understand what money is, how it comes in different forms and begin to learn how money is obtained. We will also recognise how people make choices about what to do with money and the difference between needs/wants. Know how to keep money safe and list some of the different ways of
doing this.
RE – Why does Easter matter to Christians?
We will be focusing on telling stories of Holy Week and Easter from the Bible and recognise that Incarnation and Salvation are part of a ‘big story’ of the Bible. We will look at how Christians show their beliefs about Jesus’ death and resurrection in church worship at Easter. Finally we will think, talk and ask questions about whether the story of
Easter only has something to say to Christians, or if it has anything to say to pupils about sadness, hope or heaven. Provide good reason for their ideas.
Art/ D & T/ Music
Art – Pablo Picasso.
We will be focusing on colour, drawing and printing skills.
DT – We are drink makers.
We will design our own smoothie and select simple tools, use them appropriately and begin to evaluate the taste.
Music – Round and Round
The material presents an integrated approach to music where games, the dimensions of music (pulse, rhythm, pitch etc), singing and playing instruments are all linked.
PE day
Monday morning
Spellings/ Reading
Children are ranging from Phase 3 to Phase 5 Unit 3 in Spring 2 – looking at alternate sounds for reading and spellings.
Spring 1
My Family History
The children will be immersed in to the key text ‘If I were King’. We will gain a strong understanding of the story through answering literal and inference questions along with acting out the story. The children will also have the chance to write in a variety of genres including descriptive, letter and instruction writing!
During Mathematics this half term the children will be learning adding and subtracting numbers within 20; their previous knowledge of number bonds to 10 will be used to support this. They will continue to learn new ways to solve worded problems. They shall also be learning about place value including partitioning numbers into tens and ones.
In this history unit the children will explore similarities and differences between their own lives and those of people their grandparents’ age. The unit focuses on different topics including; homes, toys, shops and schools. The children will see and handle real objects from the 1950s and 1960s. This wonderful topic will finish with a reconstruction of a typical school day in the 1950s/1960s.
Autumn 2
UK Adventures
This geography unit focuses on naming and locating the 4 countries of the United Kingdom. We will use maps and atlases to name capital cities and use aerial photographs to recognise UK landmarks. The children will name and locate the surrounding seas of the UK. In English, we will be delving in to a traditional fairy tale- Jack and the Beanstalk. Although many traditional fairy tale stories will be read, the main focus text will be Jack and the Beanstalk. The children will continue to improve their sentence structure and punctuation, ensuring they always include capital letters and full stops. As the children will be sequencing and retelling the story, they will have the opportunity to use adjectives and time adverbs.
Autumn 1
Our local area: What’s it like where we live?
During English our for the love of reading focus is a magical story called ‘The Bog Baby’. We will be focusing on writing exciting setting descriptions as well as instructions on how to look after the Bog Baby. During Mathematics this half term we will be developing our number and place value skills, including one more and one less, counting forwards and backwards and comparing numbers. We will also be adding and subtracting numbers and focusing on number bonds. In Geography this term we will be learning about our local area. We will be identifying physical and human features of Stoke on Trent before looking closely at a local factory. The children will develop locational knowledge based on the view from our school. They will build place vocabulary to define where they live, which is deepened through experiences and using maps. In Science, we will be exploring the human body and discussing how our senses work.