What’s happening this term:

English - In Literacy we will be reading 'Goldilocks and the 3 bears' and 'The Gigantic Turnip'. We will be writing character descriptions, instructions, posters and stories. Our SPAG focus will be nouns, simple punctuation and suffixes.

Maths - The focus this term will be  place value - we will be developing our understanding of number and how these are represented.

Science - The topic for Science is 'Plants'. We will be responding to enquiries about the different parts of flowering plants, observing the trees and plants on our school site and recording the stages of growth that plants go through in our own seed investigation.  

Geography- This term we will be exploring the UK in Geography and answering the question, where am I? We will be looking at human and physical features in our local area and identifying them on maps and aerial photographs.  

RE - The theme for RE this term is God, our big question is, what do Christians believe God is like? We will be looking at how parables can help Christians in their daily lives and ways in which God is shown to be loving and forgiving. We will be using the parable of The Lost Son in more detail to help explore this.  

DT - In this unit, pupils will be exploring structures, using the story of Goldilocks and the three bears as inspiration to build a chair for baby bear. We will be creating our own design criteria and evaluating our success against it.  

Music - We will be learning about call and response using animal sounds as our stimulus. We will be learning to repeat patterns of sound by clapping and with instruments, which we will perform to audience.  

Computing - We will be looking at computer algorithms and using clear instructions to help debug programmes.  

PSHE - We will be looking at our families and friendships. We will explore ways to resolve conflict with our peers as well as being able to recognise other people’s feelings. Towards the end of our unit, we will be looking at gender stereotypes and dealing with loss.  

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