Summer Term 2

Tigers, welcome back! 

English this half term will be text led, focusing on the book ‘Meerkat Mail'.

By the end of this topic, all children will be able to:

• Use capital letters for the personal pronoun ‘I’, names of people and places, and days of the week.

• Spell days of the week accurately. 

Children who are working deeper will: 

• Begin to develop a greater range of conjunctions.

Phonics will take place daily, following the Read, Write, Inc. scheme. These lessons will incorporate learning phonics sounds, reading, writing and spelling. 

In Maths this half term, we will be focusing on: 

Place Value to 100

Money

Time

Science 

Our final science topic of the year is ‘Plants and Animals in our Local Area’. It will bring together a lot of strands of our animals and plants topics from the year. We will start the topic by looking at adult animals and their babies – do the adult and baby look the same? We will then move onto nocturnal animals and deciding what features a nocturnal animal needs to survive.  We will tie up the year by going around our school field and looking at the different plants and animals which we can find on it. 

We will be using the vocabulary from our previous plant and animal topics - 

fish, reptiles, mammals, birds, amphibians, herbivore, omnivore, carnivore, leg, elbow, arm, head, ear, nose, back, wings, beak, deciduous, evergreen trees, leaves, flowers (blossom), petals, fruit, roots, bulb, seed, trunk, branches, stem

We will also be concluding our ‘Seasons’ topic by looking at the season of summer and why days are different lengths. 

The vocabulary for this topic is - summer, autumn, winter, spring, sun, day, moon, night, light, dark.

History

In History, the children will be learning about George Mottershead. Throughout this unit the children will:

• Ask and answer questions based on a photograph.

• Put events in chronological order. 

• Find out more about George Mottershead using the internet.

• Create an information text about George Mottershead.

Art

In Art, our topic is ‘Animal Art’. Throughout this unit the children will:

• Print using different objects

• Print onto paper and textiles

• Design their own printing block 

 

Computing

In Computing, the topic is ‘Data, Research and Multimedia’. Throughout this unit the children will:

• Represent data in different ways

• Use an onscreen program to represent information with pictures

• Find pictures online

• Use the internet to research an animal

• Use photographs and add text to create a poster

• Record sound to present information

 

PSHE

In PSHE, we will be using the book ‘My World, Your World’ to explore diversity. 

PE

PE will take place on Monday’s and Friday’s, please come in to school wearing your PE kit on these days. This half term the children will be focusing on Bat and Ball Skills and Tri Golf.

RE

For our final half-term of the year we will be looking at the Big Question of, ‘What do Muslims believe about Allah and Muhammad (PBUH)?’ We will be finding out why Allah and Muhammad(PBUH) are important to the followers of Islam.

Music

Under the Sea - the children will combine all the musical concepts learned throughout Year 1 for an underwater-themed performance incorporating instrumental, vocal and body sounds.

Staffing

Mrs Gregg will be teaching the children on Wednesday afternoon during my PPA.

Homework

Homework will be sent home on a Friday and needs to be returned on a Friday of the following week. This will include work to consolidate the children’s learning from that week. 

Water bottles

Please ensure your child has a named water bottle in school each day.

If anyone has any questions they would like to ask me, please feel free to see me after school or arrange an appointment.

 

Many Thanks

Mr Hamm