Forest School and PE

Our forest school session will be taught every Tuesday afternoon. PE will be taught every Monday and Thursday. 

Autumn 1

Term - Autumn 2

Topic - Awesome Allestree

Through our topic work this term we will be learning …….

Maths - We are developing our confidence and fluency when adding and subtracting numbers within 10. We are then going to learn to solve addition and subtraction of two-digit numbers and multiplication problems.

English - We will be completing some writing based on 'My Christmas Star'. We will find out about the features of writing a narrative and writing our own narrative by changing an aspect of the story. We will have daily handwriting as part of our write stuff lessons to reinforce our letter formation. We will be enjoying a variety of books in guided reading sessions each week.

Spelling – We will be continuing our work on Essential Spelling. This helps us learn the spelling rules which we then apply in all our writing.

Science – We will be observing and describing how seeds and bulbs grow into mature plants.

History - We will learn about what schools were like 100 years ago and compare them to schools in the present day. A grandparent will visit to talk about their school memories.

Geography- We will be learning about the four countries of the UK, their capital cities and the surrounding seas and where they and Allestree are located on a map. We will be walking around Allestree finding out what it is like and how it can be improved. We will carry out a traffic survey.

Growing up Great - We will be learning all about ourselves and drugs education.

Music - We will have lots of fun learning about playing in an orchestra and we will be learning Christmas songs for our nativity.

PE - We will be devising our own dances and keeping fit.

Computing - We will be finding out about coding.

RE - We will be finding out about Muslims and what they believe and learning about Mosques.

Forest school - We will learn about den building and survival.