Term - Summer 2

Topic - 'Wriggle and Crawl'.

Grab your coat and pooter - we're going out and about on a minibeast hunt. Sweep your nets in ponds and lift up logs to see who's home.  Then set up a minibeast laboratory and observe their every move. Add notes and labels and ask research questions, just like a real entomologist. Learn about bees and worms and butterflies too. Can you make a food chain to show who eats who? Carry out investigations to find out more, like how far a snail travels in a day and how a spider catches its prey. Discover how your favourite bug transforms from one form to another, perhaps a caterpillar to a butterfly or a maggot to a fly. On your belly, legs at the ready, it's time to wriggle and crawl.

Maths - We are learning about money, fractions, time and measuring mass and capacity.

English - We will be completing our write stuff block about instructions for 'Making a Bird Feeder'. We will find out about the features of writing instructions and writing some of our own instructions for how to make things to make our natural area even better such as a bug hotel or hedgehog home.

We are also learning the poem 'Miss Flotsam' to join in at the derby book festival.

Spelling - We will be continuing to learn different spelling patterns and spelling rules and applying them in our writing.

We might even have some very special visitors to observe this half term! 

Term - Summer 1 

Topic - 'Scented Garden'.

Tiptoe through the tulips as your senses discover the blooming foliage and enchanting fragrances of flowers and herbs. Round and round the mulberry bush we go, planting bulbs and seeds, and then watch them grow beneath sunshine and showers. Explore the astounding world of the scented garden, but be careful, there are some wild and dangerous plants out there that do astonishing things. Don't touch them. Everything is coming up roses. Why not grow your own? 

Maths - We are learning about the properties of 2D and 3D shapes.  We will also be learning to add and subtract two 2-digit numbers.

English - We will be completing our write stuff block about 'Plants'. We will learn out all sorts of fascinating facts in both English and Science lessons. We will find out about the features of an information texts and write our own about seeds.

Spelling - We will be continuing to learn different spelling patterns and spelling rules and applying them in our writing.

Term - Spring 2

Topic - 'Towers, Tunnels and Turrets'.

See the castle ahead? Get ready to invade its mighty walls. Shoot a projectile with an archer’s aim. Head across the drawbridge, over the moat and up to the top of the tower. Then dig deep, deep down, making burrows and tunnels, just like the animals who live underground. What’s that sound? I hear little hooves going trip, trap, trip, trap, over the rickety bridge. Watch out for the angry troll underneath. He likes to gobble up little girls and boys. Make sure your bridge is sturdy enough to take our weight and get us safely to the other side. And finally, meet three little pigs who need your help to build a strong fortress. Inside its strong walls, they’ll be safe from the big, bad wolf. No huffing and puffing will blow your fortress down. 

Maths - We are learning how to multiply by 2, 5 and 10. We will then learn how to use our multiplication knowledge to divide by 2, 5 and 10.  At the end of this half term we will be learning about the properties of 2D and 3D shapes.

English - We will be completing our write stuff block based on George and the Dragon by letting our imaginations run wild and writing the end of the story ourselves.  We will then be completing some work based on 3 new books as part of Derby Book Festival Picture book award. The poem we will be learning this half term is called 'Recipe for a teacher'.

Spelling - We will be continuing to learn different spelling patterns and spelling rules and applying them in our writing.

Term - Spring 1

Topic - Street Detectives

This way or that way? Where should we go? Up to the local shops or down to the playing fields? Let’s learn about our local community, looking at houses old and new and finding out how our streets have changed since our mums and dads were young. Perhaps your granny or grandpa went to your school or maybe they worked in the baker’s shop? Make maps and plans of the streets around us, planning our routes. What can you see? What can we find? Whereabouts do you live? Ready to roll, Street Detectives? Get your clipboards and cameras – it’s time to start investigating.

Maths - We are learning how to multiply numbers by 2, 5 and 10.

Literacy - We are reading the poem 'if I were in charge of the school' which is about how we would change the world if we were in charge. Our next book is called 'The Building Boy'.

Spelling - We are learning different spelling patterns, spelling rules and applying these in a range of words.