ENGLISH

Reading focus - individual

Handwriting skills, weekly spellings linked to phonics.

Introduction to literacy – reading from a text, scanning and writing / responding in whole sentence answers.

Stories with familiar settings, instructions, poetry and traditional stories.

Grammar revision – nouns, verbs, adjectives, vowels, plurals, tenses, questions.

As Michaelmas, but progressing the handwriting to focus more on joining. Weekly spellings linked to phonics.  Literacy – gaining independence and developing oral vocabulary.

Different stories by the same author, explanations, really looking and information texts.

Reading focus – individual and reading aloud to peers. Class reading.

Grammar – commas, speech marks, adverbs, compound words, syllables, opposites.

Handwriting – joining ascenders, descenders, patterns and words.

Creative focus – linked to topics – lists, stories, non-fiction writing, poems, rhymes, reports.

Grammar – revision of tenses, punctuation, homophones.

Class, individual and group reading.

Spellings / phonics – revision of key sound patterns.

MATHEMATICS

Number

Numbers to 100.

Place Value – tens, units,

Addition – number bonds to 10

Subtraction – from 10, 20

Money – recognise, equivalence

Number patterns

Multiplication – x2, x10

Ordering – up to 100

Topic Maths

Length – centimetres, metres

3d Shape – recognition, faces

Fractions – whole, half, quarter

Angle – clockwise, anticlockwise

Time – o’clock, half past

Sorting – Venn & Carroll diagrams

Number

Numbers to 100 – in 10s

Place Value – tens, units

Addition – doubles, +10,11, 9

Subtraction – taking 10, 11, 9

Multiplication – x5, x10

Division – sharing, leftover

Topic Maths

Weight – grams, kilograms, non-standard units

Capacity – litres, non-standard units

2d shape – sides, corners, recognition.

Fractions – half, quarter, third

Time – quarter to / past

Block Graphs

Sorting – Venn diagrams

Number

Numbers to 100 - grouping

Ordering – small to large

Addition - + 3 numbers, doubles

Subtraction – difference, skills

Numbers to 1000

Doubling/halving

Multiplication - consolidation

Division – grouping and relationship with multiples

Topic Maths

Capacity - calibration

Time – seconds, minutes, hrs, days and months

Angle – right angles

Symmetry

Fractions – half, quarter, third

Tables - data

SCIENCE

Light and Dark

Seeing, sources of light, using lights at night, seeing in the dark, shiny objects and reflections.

Electricity

Using electricity in our world, safety, circuit – bulbs and buzzers, mains and battery, using a torch, basic conductor / insulator work, where does electricity come from.

Sounds and Hearing

Environment sounds, musical instruments, ways of making instruments work, body movement and sounds, sense of hearing, fair test for distance hearing, danger sounds, ways of describing sounds.

Variation

To become more aware of the huge variety of living things within their local environment and of differences between them. They will learn that although individual living things are different there are similarities which can help to sort them into groups and that this is helpful.

Making observations, measurements and comparisons. Presenting findings in drawings and block graphs. Using results to draw conclusions.

The Beautiful World (cycle 1)

What is nature? Different environments and habitats, Recycling and pollution, plant and animal survey, classification and variation, plant parts, trees, pond study, lifecycles, food chains.

The Seaside (cycle 1)

What is water|? Water cycle, floating and sinking, displacement, waterproofing, pulleys, dissolving, three states of water, pollution.

Gardens and Growth (cycle 2)

Water and Boats (cycle 2)

TOPIC

The Great Fire of London

How do we know about the fire, where and when did the fire begin, what happened in the fire, why did it spread so far and stay alight for so long.

Light and Festivals

Celebrating, birthdays, Harvest, Festivals of light, Guy Fawkes and the Gunpowder Plot, Remembrance Day, Christmas – Victorian values and traditions / modern day.

Sculpture

Develop understanding of shape, form, texture and the sensory qualities of materials. Learn about the work of sculptors and about different kinds of sculpture, including those made of natural materials. Learn skills for arranging materials to make a relief collage and sculpture.

The Local Area

Develop geographical ideas and skills by studying their own locality. Collect and record evidence. Undertake fieldwork. Make maps and plans. Use maps. Use secondary sources. Children to relate understanding of science to environmental contexts and to consider how to treat living things with sensitivity.

The Beautiful World (cycle 1)

Sea environment, the world map, oceans, continents, Grace Darling & lifeboats RNLI, Titanic, Lighthouse Keeper’s lunch, Noah, pirates & smugglers, Christopher Columbus, pollution, school trip to enhance curriculum, seaside holidays past and present.

The Seaside (cycle 1)

The Earth, how it is changing – global warming, Trees Co2, living conditions in variety of environment, local environment – school, plans, surveys, looking at the habitat, waste and recycling, classification of plants / animals, variation, independent study, plants – life, pond study, life cycles, food chains, Environment Day.

Gardens and Growth (cycle 2)

Water and Boats (cycle 2)

PE

Aiming, Throwing and catching

Dribbling, kicking and team games

Football Skills

Movement and Music

Basketball Skills

Throwing and catching

Uni-Hockey

Gymnastic

Dance:  Let’s Move

Athletics

Mini Tennis