Year Group Information
Spring Term 2 Learning
Foundation - Mrs Cole, Miss Boothroyd, Mrs Parry, Mrs Sanders, Mrs Oram, Mrs McMurdo & Mr Page
In foundation this half term we are very much looking forward to our trip to Hogshaw Farm! We will learn how things grow and will also investigate the life cycles of animals. We will also continue to observe the everchanging seasons and hopefully will see signs of Spring developing as we get ready for warmer weather.
In Literacy this half term, traditional tales, famous picture books and animations will be used during our Drawing Club sessions to inspire the children to write. These include: ‘Room on the Broom’, Mr Ben (Zookeeper), ‘Goldilocks and the Three Bears’, We’re Going on a Bear Hunt’ and ‘Where the Wild Things Are’. In Phonics we will continue to consolidate and learn more sounds and ‘red’ words and use these in our independent reading and writing.
In Maths this half term, we will continue to explore and deepen our knowledge of numbers to 10 ;- we compare numbers and identify the different number bonds to 10. We will continue to use the 10s frame, the parts-whole model and a range of resources to represent our mathematical knowledge.
Please continue to support your child’s learning at home by: reading daily and commenting in your child’s reading diary, (including regular practise of all the sounds and red words) as well as practising recognition, ordering and counting forwards and backwards to 20.
Spring Term 2 Learning
Year One – Mrs Whitley, Mr Ainscow, Mrs Goble & Miss Miles
In Maths, we will explore counting in 2’s, 5’s and 10’s and learn how this can help us solve simple problems. We will then look at equal groups and how we can add equal groups and split a number into equal groups to divide that number.
In English we will be returning to drawing club for some enthusiastic writing about a range of texts. We will continue to remind the children to use capital letters and full stops. Furthermore, they will deepen their knowledge of basic punctuation by looking at exclamation marks and question marks. We will continue to remind the children that they need a subject and a verb in their sentences, and they will be expected to find these within their work.
In Science, we will continue to identify and categorise everyday items based on the materials they are made from. We will also explore various properties of different materials. In Computing, we will further develop our understanding of online safety while exploring the tools and programs available on Purple Mash.
In Geography, we will review our knowledge of the UK and its capital cities. This term, our focus will be on the four seasons— Autumn, Spring, Summer, and Winter. We will revisit the months of the year, sorting them into their respective seasons through a fun song and actions. After identifying the key characteristics of each season, we will compare them to determine our favourite. As part of our weather studies, each class will create a weather gauge to measure daily rainfall. At the end of the term, we will analyse our results to find out which day had the most and least rainfall.
In D.T. we will explore mechanisms by introducing sliders (moving side to side) and levers (pivoting). The children will develop the necessary skills and knowledge to design, create, and evaluate their own moving picture.
Spring Term 2 Learning
Year Two - Mrs Varney-Bushnell, Miss Kavanagh & Miss Couzens
In English, the children will be writing their own circular story about their character going on a journey. They will take inspiration from our focus story ‘A river’ by Marc Martin. In our narratives, we will be concentrating on writing sentences with subject, verbs and our extra information. Alongside these lessons, we will continue to focus on our year 2 spellings and working on our handwriting.
In maths, we are learning to use the column addition method and the column subtraction method (see the image). We will continue to learn and consolidate the mathematical facts . When adding 9, our method is to add 10 and take away 1. When adding 8, our method is to add 10 and take away 2. We will then move onto learning about money where we will count in both pence and pounds, compare different amounts and calculate change. Opportunities at home where the children can identify the different coins and notes would support their understanding.
In science, we will be continuing to learn more about materials. We will be finding more about scientists including, John Dunlop and John McAdam and what they discovered.
In geography, we will start the unit with recapping the 4 seasons, 7 continents and 5 oceans. We will then continue to learn about the key features of planet Earth (equator, north pole, south pole, northern hemisphere and southern hemisphere), how the Earth rotates around the sun and what the different temperatures of Earth are.
In art, the children will be learning to flatten, smooth and roll clay to make a basic pinch pot. We will then use our learnt skills to design and make their own clay house tile.
In RSHE we will be looking at ways we can be healthy and keep ourselves safe. Making sure that we listen to each other's ideas and take in turn with our year group’s jigsaw puzzle.
Spring Term 2 Learning
Year Three - Mrs Williams, Miss Addison, Mrs Ridley, Mrs Chilton & Miss Jones
In maths this term we are building on our knowledge of mathematical operations beginning with multiplication and division as our focus. We will then link this into work learning about Fractions and the associated mathematical vocabulary. Weekly arithmetic lessons and assessments of the skills learnt continue to run along learning our Times Tables through a variety of platforms such as TT Rockstars and other i-Pad games that can be found on your child’s i-Pads in their Showbie maths folder, named as “Digital Tools.” Also, please help your child to write and recite the times tables whenever possible as this will greatly help.
We learn how to put fractions on a scale and how to order them in size. We then look at equivalence in fractions, both on a number line and by drawing bar models to help us have a visual model. We will be counting in fractions so if you would like to support, it would be great to try this at home too. As ever, we use a strategy called RUCSAC to help the children to unpick maths word problems. Read, Understand, Choose an operation, Solve, Answer and Check.
During Spring 2 we will be learning about Diaries as a genre and will focus on the type of language used and the general layout of a diary entry. Weekly spellings will continue to be set with new ones given out on a Monday for a test the following Monday.
If your child has only recently come off our Phonics scheme, then please look out for new Reading scheme books that the children will be bringing home to share with you.
Science this term is looking at Animals including humans. The children will learn about nutrition, muscles, bones in the human body and the skeleton types.
This term we are building on our computing knowledge of coding using resources on Purple Mash alongside Coding packages on the i-Pad. The aim is to embed the vocabulary for coding so that we can apply it to other coding programs such as Scratch and moving on to Swift on Apple devices later in the year. Purple Mash 2-Do’s will be set for your child to build on our lessons at home should they wish to.
In Geography we are learning about the Watercycle and key features of Rivers both in the UK and around the world.
We look forward to a splendid term working alongside you and as always, if you have any questions, please approach any one of us in our Year Three Team.
Spring Term 2 Learning
Year 4: Miss Tilley, Mrs Wilson, Mrs Sheikh & Mr Norman
This half term in Year 4 we are lucky to be able to enjoy some of the Spring sunshine whilst we are at Forest School on a Tuesday afternoon.
In maths we are starting a new topic of developing our understanding of fractions, drawing on our existing knowledge to help us with this.
In English we are continuing our narrative of a lovely story book Leaf, we will then create an information report on polar bears. After this, we will move onto exploring a myth narrative and instructions using Arthur and the Golden Rope as a supportive text to guide us.
In reading we are developing our VIPERS skills looking at non-fiction books such as: Viking Voyagers and How does a lighthouse work?
In science we will be exploring our topic of States of Matter. Children will learn to compare and group materials according to whether they are solids, liquids or gases. They will learn that some materials change state when they are heated or cooled and be able to identify and name these processes as melting, freezing, evaporating or condensing.
In geography we are studying different types of mountains and exploring mountain ranges of the world.
Spring Term 2 Learning
Year Five - Miss Pickup, Miss Patel, Mrs Turp & Mrs Rayner
Throughout the Spring 2 term, Year 5 are learning about the Circle of Life. They will develop their understanding of key scientific vocabulary and knowledge of different life cycles (animals, including humans and plants). This will link to their learning in RSHE.
In maths, the children will continue learning about area and perimeter before learning about statistics. They will be using their mathematical understanding to answer reasoning questions.
In English, the children will be refining their grammatical knowledge and looking at the features of a narrative piece of writing. This will be supported by reading a range of books in Whole Class Reading, such as: Boy Overboard and Boy in the Tower.
Spring Term 2 Learning
Year Six - Mrs Bull, Ms Shelmerdine, Mrs Downs, Miss Webster & Mrs Borah
In maths, we are going to spend some time looking at the links and relationships between fractions, decimals and percentages. Following on from this, we will explore area, perimeter and volume.
In English, we are learning about persuasive techniques as well as revising all year 6 grammar objectives. We will be ensuring we can use speech in narrative correctly and that we can show what is happening by describing. In reading, we are learning to be more confident answering longer questions about a text.
In geography, we are learning all about South America. We will find out about physical and human features as well as comparing different areas. We are excited to learn about the Amazon and what life is like in different parts of this fascinating area.
In science, we will continue to develop our knowledge of the human body. We will deepen our understanding of animals and plants by studying the climates and conditions in which animals and plants thrive.