Forest School and PE

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

Autumn 2

Topic - Brazilian Carnival 

Please find below some information about your child’s learning this term: 

Art: Exploring the colours and pencil lines of the artists Bridget Riley, Wassily Kandinsky, Zaria Foreman and painting some festival scenes using colour mixing.

Geography: We are learning where Brazil is by reminding ourselves about the seven continents of the world and finding out about the human and physical features of the capital city of Brazil, Brasilia. We will compare Brasilia to Derby and Allestree.

Music: We will be listening to the music of Brazil, playing along to samba music with percussion instruments; exploring a range of percussion instruments, considering the different sounds they make; listening to the Brazilian national anthem and considering how this makes us feel; using our voices expressively and creatively by singing songs and speaking chants and rhymes.

English: We will be sharing the text ‘Stanley’s Stick’. We will invent our own use for Stanley’s stick and reinforce our capital letters, finger spaces and full stops. We will also be encouraging the children to write independently, so we can see how they are applying what they have learnt.

Phonics: We are starting phase 5a. We are learning digraphs such as ay, ou, ie, ea and many more. We will be reading and spelling words containing the new graphemes. We will share a brief phonics video each week as homework to consolidate these letters at home.

RE: Who is a Christian and what do they believe?

PSHE: Being healthy and Diversity and Difference are our focus from our scheme ‘Growing Up Great’

Computing: We will be following and creating instructions on the computer. Learning that an algorithm is a set of step-by-step instructions.

Science: We will be learning about objects and materials. Naming and describing their properties and uses. Which materials would be better for making a boat, for example?

Maths: We will be working on the partitioning of numbers to 100. We will know that there are 4 tens and 5 ones in 45.