Miss Caff
Teacher
My favourite book is 'How to Train your Dragon' by Cressida Cowell. When I was at school, this book was read to me by my class teacher. I became engrossed in the adventurous, magical and wondrous characters within the story and the ups and downs within the plot. I was hooked. The book follows a young Viking boy, Hiccup who wants to be just like his dad until he meets an interesting dragon, Toothless. The bravery, independence and teamwork within this book resonated with me as a child and still do now. I will continue to read this book and recommend it to all of my students.
Miss Franklin
Support Staff
My favourite children's book is The Lion, The Witch and the wardrobe. This book follows four children into a mystery world which they accidentally enter whilst hiding in a wardrobe. They experience excitement, curiosity and fear as they enter the new, mysterious world. Throughout this story the children undertake numerous challenges in order to protect each other and meet new people and creatures whilst exploring the wonders of this new, mysterious place.
Summer 2
Welcome back! We hope you have had a lovely May break. The title for Summer 2 is ‘Under the Sea’.
In Science, we will be looking at living things and their habitats. We will be learning about different species of animals and plants, where they live and why. We will also be focussing on food chains and what animals eat. The children will be using the vocabulary; herbivore, carnivore and omnivore.
In Art we will be looking at the work of Suzie Marsh and using her techniques to create our own sculptures. Then we will be learning about mixed media and abstract art, where the children will be creating their own ‘sea themed’ art using mixed media.
Phonics and spelling will continue to be taught daily alongside our English lessons. In English, we will be looking at the text ‘Goldilocks and Just the One Bear’ by Leigh Hodgkinson. During the unit, we will be working towards writing our own version of the story with a change of character or setting. We will be focussing on sequencing events of a story and including a beginning, middle and an end to our stories. We will also be working on simple description of a character or setting and also on past tense.
In maths, we will follow the White Rose scheme of work. Our focus in Year 1 will be finishing position and direction. We will then be learning about place value within 100, money and time.
In R.E. we will be exploring the question: ‘What makes some people and places in Cornwall sacred?’ We will focus on the celebrations of St Piran’s Day, other Cornish Saints and places in Cornwall that are sacred.
In music we will be completing the ‘Our Big Concert’ unit in which we will listen to, and appraise different pieces of music, find the pulse to pieces of music, learn about pitch, tempo and rhythm. Children will also play notes on the glockenspiel and learn how to compose pieces of music, we will then perform the songs that we have learned.
In P.E, we will be focusing on attacking and defending; we will think about how to use space within a game, how to effectively mark another player, how to defend the space between two players, how to pass the ball to another player and get it past a defender. We will then use all of these skills within a game.
In computing, we will be completing a Purple Mash unit called ‘Animated Story Books’ in which we will use ‘2create a story’ to plan, draw and write our own story eBooks.
In PSHE, we will be completing the ‘changing me’ unit in which children will think about the life cycle of a human, how their life has changed so far and what things have stayed the same. They will look at how their body has changed since they were babies and the differences in the anatomy of boys’ and girls’ bodies.