Year 1/2 Term 1

As Theologists, we will be an-

Celebration of LearningSharing presentations
about amazing animals with parents.
WOW Event School trip to Bristol Zoo
Friday 29th September
As Musicians, we will be focusing on the song
Hands, Feet, Heart by Joanna Mangona.
As Technologists, we will be learning to log
onto laptops, stay safe online, search on the
internet and use textese.
swering the key question, is it
possible to be kind to everyone
all the time?!
As Artists, we will be exploring
3D modelling.
We shall create our own
sculptures.
Amazing Animals
As Athletes, Year 2 children will be taught our PE lessons by Bristol Rugby (Weds
afternoons. Year 1 children will be taught PE on Thursday afternoon. WE shall be learn-
ing gymnastic skills during Term 1.

As Scientists, we will be
Identifying living and non living things.
Sorting animals into different groups for example reptiles/ amphibians and mammals.
Observing, labelling and comparing simple features of different animals.
Learning about diet and the different between herbivores/ omnivores and carnivores.

As Writers, this term we will be focusing on
Writing simple sentences using correct punctua-
tion .
Learning to use cursive handwriting (joined).
For examples see letterjoin.co.uk
Verbally retelling fairy tales focussing on includ-
ing adjectives and expanded noun phrases.
Writing our own fairy tales using a range of
punctuation and expanded noun phrases.
For non-fiction, children will be writing an infor-
mation text about animals.
In all writing we will be expecting children to use
cursive writing.
As Mathematicians, this term we will be focusing on
Understanding place valuepartitioning numbers into tens
and ones.
Adding and subtracting using number lines and column
methods for Year 2
Understand the concepts of multiplication and division us-
ing arrays and sharing.
Finding simple fractions of shapes and numbers.
Measuring accurately in cm using a ruler.
As readers, we are focusing on
Reading common exception words at speed
Understanding what we have read by answering simple
questions about the text.
Using expression when reading aloud.
To improve our spelling, we will
Learn to spell common exception words by heart
alongside learning new phonic spellings