Activities to try at home – Read some Beatrix Potter
books.
Useful websites
http://www.britishlegion.org.uk/remembrance/how-the-nationremembers/plant-a-poppy/remembrance-day
http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/0/ww1/
E-Safety Alert! All websites are subject to the school’s
firewall – pop-ups can and do happen, please be alert!
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Personal, Social and
Emotional development
Our SEAL topic is Getting on and Falling out.
In RE we will learn about Valuing new life and
the birth of Jesus
Make an Ice balloon
We will be learning about the Shakespeare play
‘The Tempest’ and the work of Beatrix Potter.
http://www.sciencemuseum.org.uk/educators/teaching_r
esources/activities/ice_balloons.aspx
We will write settings, recounts, letters, poetry,
descriptive writing and playscripts.
Help with cooking activities in the kitchen and notice how
ingredients change as they are heated or cooled.
Role play area is a ship from The Tempest
Communication and
Language, Literacy
We will complete dance activities and multi
skills.
Communication and
Language,
AwesomeLiteracy
Authors
Welly Wednesdays!
and
We will learn about different materials and their
properties.
Remembrance day
We will learn some new songs about our
We will find out the life of Beatrix Potter, who she
topic and for our Christmas performance.
was and what she did.
We will experiment with colours when
We will learn about Remembrance day and what it
We will make 3d models from clay.
We will investigate life in the trenches for
In computing we will learn about programming and
giving instructions.
Understanding
of the World
We will continue to develop our
We will make various craft items for
addition and subtraction
Remembrance day and Christmas.
methods.
Remembrance Church service or visit the National Memorial
Arboretum in Staffordshire.
We will explore Beatrix Potter’s artwork.
We will learn about shapes.
We will solve problems using
Places to visit –. Visit a local war memorial, attend a
Expressive
Arts and
Design
painting.
represents.
soldiers.
Physical
development
money and in the context of
fractions.
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