ENGLISH

Reading focus - individual

News – independent writing

Handwriting skills, weekly spellings linked to phonics.

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

Creative writing –  linked to topic work – poetry, lists, letters, non-fiction.

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

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

Creative focus – story writing. The elements of making a story-characters, setting, time, beginning, middle, end. Making up own Egyptian Adventure – ICT link.

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.

News work, more joint writing, literacy.

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 – recogn, equivalence

Number patterns

Multiplication – x2, x10

Ordering – up to 100

Topic Maths

Length – centimetres, metres

3d Shape – recognition, faces

Fractions – whole, half, quarter

Angle – clock.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

Electricity

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

Light & Colour

Light sources – natural / artificial, shadows, colour spectrum, mixing colours, separating colour.

Variation

Magnetism

North and south poles, magnetic fields, strengths, attraction /repulsion. Materials and magnets, magnetic games, fair test investigation.

Sound

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

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

Light and Festivals

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

Journeys

The Local Area

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

Basketball Skills

Throwing and catching

Uni-Hockey

Gymnastic

Athletics

Mini Tennis