Forest School and PE

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

Spring 1

Term - Spring 1 

Topic - Amazing Africa 

Term - Spring 1 

Topic - Amazing Africa 

This term we will be learning …….

Maths - We are developing our confidence and fluency when multiplying and dividing numbers in terms of 'lots of and groups of' and we will apply our understanding when solving multiplication and division problems. We will start to recall times tables and division facts, particularly for x 2, x5 and x10 tables. 

English - We will be completing our writing based on the book ‘the colour thief’. We will find out about the features of letter writing.

We will be enjoying a variety of books in guided reading sessions each week.

We will have daily handwriting sessions to reinforce our letter formation and sizing.

Spelling - We continue to learn about spelling rules and how to spell common exception words.

Science - We will be focussing on animals including humans and learning about survival and different types of offspring.

Art - We will look at different types of African art and learn techniques for colour mixing. Then we will produce an African sunset picture using our colour mixing skills.

Geography- We will be recap the five oceans and the Seven continents of the World and locate the North and South Pole and the equator. Then we will find out about Kenya-its location, weather and landscape, make comparisons with England and decide where we would prefer to live, giving reasons.

Growing up Great - We will be learning all about changes.

Music - We will have lots of fun learning about playing in an orchestra.

PE - We will be developing our gymnastic skills, both on the floor and on apparatus.

Computing - We will be finding out about spreadsheets.

RE - We will be finding out about sacred books and what we can learn from them.

Forest school - We will be learning survival skills including making sparks with flint, fire lighting and campfire cooking.