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Little Doves - Year 1

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.

Mrs Slade

Support Staff

There is something so special about getting lost in the pages of a good book. I love reading. My favourite thing to do is to curl up under a blanket with a good book and a hot chocolate. When I was young, I used to love reading 'The Secret Seven' and 'The Famous Five' books by Enid Blyton. Now I'm older I still enjoy reading mystery novels. My favourite grown up book is 'The Night Circus' by Erin Morgenstern.

Spring 2

We hope that you have had a lovely half term. The title for this half-term is ‘The Great Fire of London.’ Here is an overview of what we’ll be getting up to.

In History, we will looking at what life was like in London in 1666 and comparing it to our lives now. We will then focus on the main events of the Great Fire of London and how London changed after this significant event.

Our DT will link to our history and we will be designing and making a Tudor house. We will focus on the skills of cutting and joining materials and when finished, we will evaluate our houses.

In Art we will be exploring the technique of collage, and using this technique to create our own silhouette pictures of the ‘Great fire of London’.

We will be taking part in science week and thinking about famous scientists and carrying out some of our own exciting experiments.

Phonics and spelling will be taught daily alongside our English lessons. This half term we will start by exploring the story of ‘Toby and the Great Fire of London’. Then we will be completing our ‘Pathways to write’ unit, in which, we will be looking at ‘The curious case of the missing mammoth’. Our writing outcome for this unit will be: To write a story based on the structure of ‘The Curious Case of the Missing Mammoth’ with a change of character.

In maths, we continue to follow the White Rose scheme of work. We will completing our addition and subtraction unit in which we will look at using different methods for addition and subtraction and then using related facts. We will then move on to length and height; we will be comparing lengths, starting to measure using objects and starting to measure using a ruler. After this, we will be working on weight and volume; we will be comparing mass and capacity and starting to measure these.

Our focus in year 2 to start will be 2D and 3D shapes. We will be thinking about recognising and naming 2D and 3D shapes and thinking about their properties when describing them.  We will also think about repeating shape patterns. We will then move on to a fractions unit, in which we will be thinking about finding 1/2, ¼, 1/3 and ¾ of shapes and numbers.  

In P.E, we will be looking at invasion games. Children will be focusing on catching balls and passing them accurately to other team members. They will also be looking at playing tactics within a game and then will put all this learning together to play invasion games at the end of the unit.

In R.E. we will exploring the question: “Who is Jewish and how do they live?” We will be thinking about the story of David and Goliath to start and the festival of Hanukkah. After that, we will be focusing on Passover and why Jewish people celebrate this festival.  

In Music, we will be completing our next ‘Charanga’ unit called ‘Learning to listen’, throughout the unit we be learning to listen and appraise different pieces of music. We will take part in musical activities where we think about the tempo and dynamics of the song and we will think carefully about singing in time with others. We will also be learning how to play the notes C D and E on a glockenspiel. The end point of this song will be to take part in a performance, singing in tune with others and playing the notes of the glockenspiel in time with the music.

In computing, we will be completing our ‘coding’ unit. In this unit, we will be introduced to the program 2code and create a computer programme using algorithms. We will also learn what debugging means and learn how to do this ourselves. 

In PSHCE, our next Jigsaw unit is ‘Healthy me’; we will be looking at healthy and unhealthy foods, how germs spread, how medicines help us and how they can sometimes be harmful and then we will be looking at road safety.

We hope you find the resources below easy to access for supporting your child's learning at home and understanding the key objectives being covered. The list below includes:
 
-Knowledge Organisers
This explains the key information and facts your child needs to know by the end of their topic unit with some visual aids and key vocabulary we will learn too.
 
-Calculation Policy 
This provides you with information about the key mathematical concepts and how these are taught during this Key Stage.
 
-Recommended Reads
This document lists texts we would highly recommend your child to access and read during their year group. Pupils are encouraged to select from this range of books.
 
-Book for Topics 
Here you'll find an excellent selection of topic related books we'd recommend accessing in line with our Be Bold Curriculum coverage.
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