2024.2025 

Autumn 2

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This term we have been learning about Judaism. We have been learning about the special days that Jewish people celebrate, discussing the different foods they eat and key symbols relating to their faith.

We are moving on to our topic of Loving, where we will start to prepare for Christmas and begin to understand that Advent is a special time of waiting and preparation.

English / Topic

This year we are learning our English skills through our topic. This term our topic is history based, and it is ‘Toys in living memory’. 

We have been very excited as we have become Time Travellers and have been comparing our toys in the modern day to the toys our parents, grandparents and even great-grandparents would have played with. Throughout this topic we have been working on verbal sentence structure and focusing on remembering our full stops, finger spaces and capital letters when we write. We are trying to remember to use all the phonic knowledge we know when writing.

To support our learning, we have had Victorian toys to play with in a workshop, toys from the 60’s and 70’s and modern day toys. We thought about the toy we would most like to be ourselves and acted this way. We had a dress up like a toy day, which was a lot of fun.

We continue to listen to different stories, all of which had toys in them.  

Mathematics

We have been working hard at remembering our number bonds to 10 and 20 and practising singing our 5 & 10 times tables.

The children have also been exploring fact families.

What facts are part of the fact family?

Most addition and subtraction fact families include two addition and two subtraction facts. For example, the addition/subtraction fact family for the numbers 2, 4, and 6 consists of the following: 2 + 5 = 7, 5 + 2 = 7 and 7 - 2 = 5, 7 - 5 = 2. To support this learning, the children have been using ten frames and counters.

 

 Autumn 1

This really has been an amazingly positive start to the new school year. We have all felt welcomed back after being mixed up from our reception classes. It has been fantastic being able to see all our friends again.

We are all trying our best to sit at our tables for some of our lessons, and we are amazing at putting up our hands to answer questions and are superstars at listening to instructions. 

 Religious Education

 To start our half-term, we will be learning all about the wonderful 'Creation Story' and that special gift to us from God.

 Phonics

 This half-term, we are revising some of the Little Wandle learning from Reception. We will then start to look at the sounds in Phase 5.

 Maths

Throughout this half-term we are learning all about numerical reasoning. This means we will be learning lots about place value through exploring, clarifying and applying everything we have learnt when we use the resources in our practical lessons to strengthen our understanding or number.

Science/Geography

This half-term we will be learning all about the season of Autumn and exploring seasonal changes. We will be going on an Autumn walk around the school exploring how the weather changes throughout the season and what happens to nature around us.

Art

Andy Goldsworthy is a modern-day British artist who does NOT use paint, pencils, pens, crayons etc to create his pieces of art. How can this be possible? This is the question we will be asking before creating our own masterpieces using his techniques and inspirational guidance.