Curriculum OverviewSummer Term 2019Endangered Animals

As sportsmen we will be exploring games and athletics. We will continue our games lessons outside to allow us to develop our understanding of invasion games. We will also participate in a variety of athletic sports in preparation for sports day. We have some very fast runners in our class so we look forward to the races! PE this term will be on a Monday and Friday. Please ensure that your child has plimsolls, a PE jumper and tracksuit bottoms as we cannot rely on the weather!

In PSHE we will be thinking about the values seen throughout the school: Sportsmanship and pride. We will have regular circle times to discuss our thoughts and feelings about the values. This will also give us time to discuss how we are feeling about the move up to Year 2. We will have a chance to talk about all the exciting things that lay ahead!

In RE we will be learning about growing up in a Jewish family. We will look at the ways in which some Jews celebrate the Sabbath and some festivals. We will compare the daily life of a Jewish child with our own. As we have learnt about a variety of religions this year, we will also be able to compare their day with that of children from other religions. We will also have the chance to cook some traditional Jewish food.

This term you can help your child at home by:

Reading with your child every day and discuss the story line and pictures with them

Helping your children with their weekly homework. Reading to them and questioning their understanding of

the text Helping your children to learn the spellings that will be sent

home. Handwriting practise (cursive) and letter / number

formation Identifying pairs of numbers that total 10, 20 and even 100 Counting up to and beyond 100.

In maths we will continue to use a number of resources to develop our numeracy skills. We will be revisiting all of our previous skills to make sure that we are secure with our number facts. We will be doing a variety of problems (some of them quiet complex) to really prove that we have understand the maths that we are doing.

We will look at some of the trickier objects like fractions, multiplication, division, reading scales and missing number problems. We will have a range of manipulatives and open-ended problems to support us. We will also be looking at building on our explanations and our ability to prove that our answers are right by doing the inverse and by using pictoral representations.

In English, we will be continuing our daily phonic sessions based around ‘letters and sounds’ and weekly guided reading sessions to help us with our comprehension skills and we will also be looking at applying our phonic rules to our spelling.

In our English lessons, we will be looking at the features of riddles. Here we will study a variety of riddles and look at the main features and then write our own.

In our reading sessions, we will be looking at non-fiction texts and how the layout is different to fictional texts. We will then use what we have found from the features of these books and from our research to make our own report on specific endangered animals.

As scientists we will be looking at changes around us – how changes occur across the four seasons, how plants grow and change over time, which animals live around our school, how we should care for our pets and which plants we can find in the different seasons. We will observe changes over time using simple equipment and we will gather and record data in order to help us answer some scientific questions.

As musicians we will be studying the sounds of the rainforest. We will use a variety of instruments as well as our voices to recreate the sounds. In order to make the sounds we will be listening to bird calls, noises from the tree and sounds from other animals. We will practise our performance skills when presenting our work.

In Computing we will be continuing to develop our programming skills. We will be using a few programs including ‘Code for Life’ and ‘Purple Mash’. We have learnt so much in computing. We have practiced our typing skills and will now be looking at how we can use these to make information booklets with inserting images and changing font sizes and colours. We will also be looking at online search engines and how to use them to find information and will look at how to keep safe when online.

This half-term our topic is ‘Endangered Animals’. Whilst studying this topic we will have the chance to find out about a variety of animals from all over the world. We will be looking at the reasons why these animals are becoming endangered and how we can help the world preserve. The rainforest houses many endangered animals and we will be exploring this through music and art. We will look closely at some of the animals that have already become extinct. We will look at animals and plants that have become endangered within our lifetime and those that are now protected animals.

As artists we will be exploring African sculptures. This will relate to our topic and give us a chance to take a closer look at the jungle. We will be using a variety of materials to create our sculptures and look at how to create different types of sculptures.

In maths we will continue to use a number of resources to develop our numeracy skills. We will using our bar modelling to help us organise our work and ‘part, part, whole’ to help us with numbers. We will be revisiting time to make sure that we are able to tell the time accurately. We will also be looking at the language we use to explain if something is faster or slower. We will be making sure that we know our number bonds to 20 confidently so that we use the number facts when we are adding larger numbers. We will look at 2D and 3D shapes again and explore symmetry and patterns. As it should be hot this term, we will be looking again at capacity- this time using more water! We will make sure that we can explain if a container is full, half full, a quarter full or empty. We will also continue to use addition, subtraction, multiplication and division to answer practical problems.