Mrs Anderson - Brilliant Badgers
Long Term Plan
Forest School and PE
Our forest school session will be taught every Thursday afternoon and PE will be taught every Wednesday and Friday afternoon.
Autumn 1
Topic - Life as a Child
Please find below some information about your child’s learning this term:
In the life as a child project, children will learn words and phrases related to the passage of time. They will explore artefacts to help them to understand childhood in the past and how childhood has changed over time. They will explore the six stages of life and explore timelines and family trees. Everyday life in the 1950s will be explored, including shopping, transport, family life and childhood. They will also learn about the significance of Queen Elizabeth II's coronation in 1953 by studying photographs and online sources. The children will use maps to explore how places have changed over time and highlight any similarities or differences between childhood today and childhood in the 1950s |
Phonics: We will be revising phase 4 and adding contractions to our sentences using ‘and’. We will be adding prefixes ‘un’ to words (unwell, unload) and suffixes ‘est’ ‘ed’ ‘er’ to words (strongest, cleaner, floated)
Maths: We will be learning numbers up to 100, focusing on missing number, tens and ones and one more and one less.
English: We will be using books ‘How to get your Teacher to School’ and ‘Firework Night’ We will be introducing new vocabulary and extending our writing to use the contraction ‘and’. We will use capital letters and full stops at all times.
History: Using historical vocabulary related to the passing of time; ordering events on a timeline; comparing everyday life and childhood in the 1950s with life now; studying historical artefacts; learning about significant events in history, namely the coronations of Queen Elizabeth II and King Charles III.
RE: Who is a Christian and what do they believe?
Geography: Looking at settlements and describing how they have changed over time, through studying their geographical features. We will be comparing maps from 1950 to now and looking at the physical and human features of both.
Science: Naming the four seasons and making simple observations about changes across the seasons.; naming different types of weather and describing the weather associated which each season; making observations about the weather; collecting and recording simple data.
PSHE: Settling in and ready, respectful and safe. What does this look like in year 1.
Design & Technology: Designing, constructing and evaluating a windmill.
Computing: We will be exploring purple mash and learning how to be safe online.
Forest school: We will be learning about den building and lighting fires
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.
- In maths we will be finding missing numbers and counting to 50, then 100
- Collect some objects and make groups of tens and ones. How many tens did you get? How many ones?
- In Geography we are making maps. Can you draw a map including some human physical features?
- In science, we will be looking more closely at seasonal changes. We will be learning about which animals hibernate, migrate and adapt. Can you research one of each animal?
- In DT, we will be making windmills, learning to join materials together with split pins. Can you join paper together using either split pins, tape, glue or wool?
- We would like to invite grandparents into school so they can share some things that we different growing up as a child compared to present times. If you are willing to come to school to talk to the class for 10 minutes, please see your class teacher.
We will also be visiting Sudbury Toy Museum.