Forest School and PE

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

Spring 1

Topic - Boom! Pow! Shazam!

Intergalactic greetings, young heroes. It’s time to rescue the planet from evil villains. Who’s your favourite superhero? Spiderman? Wonder Woman? Maybe your heroes are ordinary people who’ve achieved great things. Or is it those people who save lives in our emergency services that you admire most? Superheroes have super senses. What do true superheroes eat to keep their senses and special powers sharp?

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

Design & Technology:  We will be designing, making and evaluating delicious nutritional smoothies fit for a superhero.

History: Listening to the stories of a real-life historical ‘superhero’, Florence Nightingale! We will be finding out what she did to make things better for others and discussing why she is a real-life superhero. We will be making a timeline of her life.

Geography: We will be going on a superhero hunt using directional language and following a map around school grounds to find all the superheroes.

Growing up great (PSHE): We will be exploring emotions.

Music: We will continue to follow the Charanga scheme of work.

RE: We will be looking at what it means to belong to faith community. Our religion this term is Hinduism.

English: We will be exploring the story of the Storm Whale. We will continue with 5a phonics moving onto 5b. Handwriting will continue and guided reading sessions will continue each day.

Science: We will be testing materials and their purpose, which will help us develop our scientific enquiry skills to ask questions.

Maths: We will be exploring a whole range of mathematical concepts such as

addition & subtraction, geometry – properties of Shape, geometry – position & direction, counting strategies and numbers as words.

Ways to help at home

• Children must read their school reading book at least 4 times a week to a grown up at home. Books will only be changed when they have read their school book 3 or more times. Ensure you record this in their reading record.
• We recommend www.whiteroseeducation.com/1-minute-maths for some fun one minute maths work.
• We will explore how to measure length, weight and height. At home, you could ask your child to measure: their height and some of their family members, the weight of a familiar object, e.g a piece of fruit, a favourite toy, the length of a large object, e.g sofa, bath, a radiator (as long as it’s not hot!)
• We will be discussing suffixes and how we add them to the end of words. We have

been adding ‘ing’ ‘er’ ‘ed’ can you think of any words with these suffixes in and then write them into a sentence.

• Please ask your child to find 3 interesting facts about Florence Nightingale online. They could watch this BBC KS1 video on you tube recommended for children age

5-7. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IqYvDh2qEOU

• We will be learning about drawing. You could ask your child to complete a ‘Draw with Rob’ activity of their own choice on the internet –he has lots on his website https://www.robbiddulph.com/draw-with-rob
• In school, we will be learning about doubles and halves. For example, double 3 is 6 and

half of 6 is 3. There is a fab game on https://www.topmarks.co.uk/maths-games/hit-thebutton then you could go on to try doubling and halving at home. Just set it to doubles to

10.

• In science we will be learning about five senses. It's time to go outside to take a walk-about. Find a nice place to have a seat. Perhaps in a park or on a bench near a busy street. Now listen. Write down everything you can hear. What can you see? What can you taste (without tasting anything you shouldn’t!), what can you feel and what can you see?
• This is a great song to learn to help children talk about their 5 senses. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vXXiyIGqliE
• We will continue to learn about partitioning.
• Partitioning (splitting) 2 digit numbers into tens and ones. Practise doing this practically with some objects. For example, pencils or straws can represent tens and smaller objects like beads or toy cars can represent the ones. Choose some 2-digit numbers to partition practically with objects and then write it down as a part part whole model.
• In phonics, we will be continuing to work on phase 5 phonics. There are lots of great ways to learn these phonemes (sounds), including;

https://www.phonicsplay.co.uk/resources/phase/5/buried-treasure

https://www.phonicsbloom.com/uk/game/odd-and-bob?phase=5