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 2

Topic - Boom! Pow! Shazam!

What do you know about England’s capital city? Let’s find out all about London, including its history, transport and famous landmarks. Step back in time and discover what happened in the Great Fire of London. Where did it start? How did it end? Create a model of the bakery on Pudding Lane, then burn it to the ground to recreate the Great Fire. Stand well back and watch how the flames spread. London’s burning! London’s burning! Fire, fire! Fire, fire! Let’s take in all the sights and sounds of London. Are you ready for the bustle of the big city?

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

History: learning about the Great Fire of London.

Geography: learning the countries and capital cities of the United Kingdom; using maps; looking at geographical similarities and differences between the capital city of England, London and the capital city of Zambia, Lusaka.

Science: learning about animals, including humans. We will learn about the human body, naming and identifying parts of the body, including the 5 senses. We will name animals and know which animal group they belong to.

Design & Technology: constructing a moving model of the London Eye; recreating Pudding Lane from cardboard boxes; designing and making souvenirs.

Computing: learning how to use 2create a story using animation and learning about keeping our passwords private and the reasons why we do this

Music: Charanga: All the learning is focused around one song: Round And Round, a Bossa Nova Latin style. The focus will be pulse, rhythm, pitch, singing and playing the glockenspiel.

Ways to help at home 

• Children must read their school reading book at least 4 times a week to an adult 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 continue to learn about shape. Going on a shape hunt, playing shape shop for example “the shape I want has two faces, one is flat and circular, one is curved what shape is it”  
• We will be discussing suffixes and how we add them on 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 the Great Fire of London online. They could watch some BBC KS1 videos on you tube recommended for children age 5-7 all about this history topic.
• 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   that you could go on to try doubling and halving at home, Just set it to doubles to 10.
• We will continue learning to Partition (splitting) 2 digit numbers into tens and ones can be so fun. 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  

https://ictgames.com/mobilePage/forestPhonics/index.html

• In science we will be learning about the classification of animals. You might like to investigate this with your child and sort some animals into groups.