Year 1/2 Term 1

As Theologists,
We will be exploring the
Celebration of Learning—Sharing clay zoo animalls
with parents question— Who made the world?
WOW Event— School trip to Noah’s Ark—
Thursday 27th September
As Artists, we will be exploring
3D modelling.
As Musicians, we will be focusing on the hip We shall create our own
hop song Hey You! by Joanna Mangona. sculptures.
Doctor Dolittle
As Technologists, we will be learning to log As Athletes, Year 2 children will be taught our PE lessons by Bristol Rugby (Weds
onto laptops, stay safe online, search on the afternoons. Year 1 children will be taught PE on Thursday afternoon. WE shall be learn-
internet and use textese. ing gymnastic skills during Term 1.

As Scientists, we will be
 Can I explain how people can keep healthy?
 Can I identify food groups?
 Can I explain why hygiene is important?
 Can I explain how animals change as they grow?
 Can I explain what animals need to survive?

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 value—partitioning 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