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.
Summer 1
Welcome back after the Easter break! The title for this half-term is ‘Out and about.’ Here is an overview of what we’ll be getting up to.
In Science, we will be thinking about ‘living things’, the children will explore whether things are dead, alive, or have never been alive. They will look at habitats and microhabitats and look at how animals obtain their food from their habitats. We will also focus on food chains. The end point for this unit will be to design their own habitat showing understanding of basic needs and food chains.
In Geography we will be looking at the 4 countries within the UK, and their capitals. We will also be looking at the surrounding seas. The end of point of the unit will be for the children to be able to name the 4 countries and capital cities within the UK and identify their landmarks.
Phonics and spelling will be taught daily alongside our English lessons. This half term we will be continuing with our ‘Pathways to write’ scheme and will be looking at the story of ‘Who swallowed Stanley?’, we will then use this stimulus to help us write our own non-chronological reports about sea creatures.
In maths, we continue to follow the White Rose scheme of work. Our focus in year one will be multiplication and division, and then fractions. We will be continually reviewing our arithmetic methods throughout the half term through our ‘fluency in five’ sessions.
Our focus in Year 2 will be looking at mass, capacity and temperature and fractions. We will be continually reviewing our arithmetic methods throughout the half term.
In P.E, we will be focusing on circuit training. We will look at how we can move with control and accuracy and then complete set activities within a circuit. We will then focus on how to improve our performance and will then support others with improving their performance too.
In R.E. we will exploring the question: “What do Christians believe God is like?” We will be thinking about the story of the prodigal son and Jonah, and how these stories both show that God is forgiving and loving. We will also be thinking about how Christians pray to God to ask for forgiveness and about how Christians show their love to God.
In computing, we will be completing our ‘creating digital pictures’ unit, in which the children will look at the impressionist style of art and use 2paint a picture. The end point for this unit will be to use 2PaintAPicture to create artwork in the style of Piet Mondrian.
In music we will be completing the ‘Having fun with improvisation’ unit on Charanga. Children will be learning different songs linking with how to look after themselves and will be learning to play the notes of ‘C’ ‘D’ and ‘E’ and how to use these notes to improvise to a piece of music.
In PSHE, we will be thinking about friendships. We will be looking at important people within families, what qualities make a ‘good friend’, people in the school community who can help and how we can explain how and why we appreciate someone.