Subject This term’s focus
Subject
This term’s focus
Numeracy
I.C.T
Focus: Use of ICT to find information.
Children will use the facilities in the ICT suite to research and
find information about plants, animals and habitats. They will be
researching geography topics. They will also use the software to
design and create their own superbug for our Design and
Technology Topic.
(http://www.mylearning.org/minibeasts/interactive/311/)
Science
Plants and Animals in our Local environment. (Mini beasts)
What are mini-beasts? How can we group them?
Recognise and compare the main external parts of the bodies of
mini-beasts?
Where will we find mini-beasts?
Investigate different habitats and record findings.
Investigate different mini-beasts and visit different areas of the
grounds to collect samples. Research to find out what mini-beasts
eat, how they move, whey they are found in a particular location,
their life cycle, how they compare to each other.
Investigations – Find out:
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Which is the best method for collecting worms
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Whether snails prefer light or dark areas and what they
prefer to eat.
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Do woodlice prefer dark and damp areas?
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Consider how to keep our investigations fair.
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Make predications and record results.
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Create a butterfly garden and observe the behavior and
lifecycle of caterpillars.
Christian and multi-cultural Festivals:
This term we will be looking at poems, prayers and promises and
thinking about what they mean to us. We will also look at different
places of worship such as a church compared to a mosque.
P.E: Athletics and team games, including Basketball.
Dance – Creating a dance linked to a piece of music.
Music: Create musical patterns and explore, choose and organise
sounds and musical ideas, learn new songs ready for the express
stage of our topic where we will perform in front of parents.
Geography: Katie Morag – An Island Home. This topic helps us to
understand what it is like to live on a very small Island.
Art: Children will use paints and different mediums to create
displays. Observational sketches and paintings of plants and
animals.
Design & Technology:
Design and make an information page about mini-beasts with
moving parts.
Over and under instruction games – moving like a worm/caterpillar.
Snail Collage, Bug Boxes, mini-beast houses.
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Solve problems involving addition, subtraction, multiplication or division in contexts of numbers,
measures or pounds and pence.
Identify and record the information or calculation needed to solve a puzzle or problem; carry out
the steps or calculations and check the solution in the context of the problem.
Find one half, one quarter and three quarters of shapes and sets of objects.
Understand that halving is the inverse of doubling and derive and recall doubles of all numbers to
20, and the corresponding halves.
Derive and recall multiplication facts for the 2, 3, 4, 5 and 10 times-tables and the related division
facts; recognise multiples of 2, 3, 4, 5 and 10.
Represent repeated addition and arrays as multiplication, and sharing and repeated subtraction
(grouping) as division; use practical and informal written methods and related vocabulary to support
multiplication and division.
Use the symbols +, –, ×, ÷ and = to record and interpret number sentences involving all four
operations; calculate the value of an unknown in a number sentence
(e.g. ? ÷ 2 = 6, 30 – ? = 24).
RE
Literacy
Literacy work will be centered on our link work. This is other areas of the curriculum such as geography
and science that we use to develop our literacy skills. BIG WRITE is also key to developing literacy
skills.
We will be continuing our work with:Writing focuses: descriptive writing, developing the use of WOW words. Writing in different forms
such as chronological reports, letters, instructions, recounts, stories and poetry.
Sentence focuses: extended sentences using connectives and time connectives. Writing in the 1st and 3rd
person, developing vocabulary.
Punctuation focuses: Developing the consistent use of full stops and capital letters. Using more
sophisticated punctuation such as exclamation marks, question marks and speech marks.
Reading focuses: Develop levels of reading comprehension (their understanding of the text). Using and
developing phonic knowledge to develop reading and writing skills.
Foundation
subjects