Summer 1

This half term the children will complete three learning journeys in maths.  First, they will finish working through their unit on money, recognising different coins before finding out if they have enough money to make purchases, and where they have too much, understanding the concept of ‘change’. The children will then move on to explore the concept of measure, learning to read scales of various intervals and understand different units of measure for distance, temperature, capacity and mass. Finally, they will begin their unit on time, where they will revise telling time to the nearest hour and half hour. They will then move on to telling the time to the nearest quarter hour, before children develop their understanding of time to the nearest 5 minutes. They will finally make comparisons between different durations of time.

In Science, the children will be observing and describing how seeds and bulbs grow into mature plants. They will explore all of the different elements a plant needs to stay healthy and by the end of the unit they will have gained the knowledge and understanding to answer the question ‘How does a plant make food?’

In History this half term, the children will be learning how to make connections. To do this, they will research Queen Victoria, looking at her life and thinking about when she was heir. They will then conduct research on Queen Elizabeth II’s life and monarchy. To apply their understanding, they will make connections between the two queens, thinking about what was similar and what was different about their lives.

In computing, the children will complete a cross-curricular unit to create, organise and interpret digital data. This computer science concept will see the children generate tally charts and tables, pictograms, block and bar charts from their own data, and answer a range of questions to show their understanding, linking to their maths statistic knowledge. In addition, the children will explore the concept of digital devices in e-safety, looking at how some homes have devices linked to the internet, including fridges and lightbulbs as well as computers and phones.

This half term, in RSHE lessons, the children will learn about the concept of ‘Being the Best Me’.  They will learn how to take care of their physical, emotional and mental wellbeing. They will explore how choices they make can impact on their health by considering foods which are healthy and unhealthy and they will further look at how we should take care of our teeth in order to keep them healthy.

In RE this half term, the children will learn about special books.  This learning will be contextualised by learning about the Bible as a special book for Christians and the Torah as a special book for Jewish people.  The children will conduct research and will apply it in different contexts.

In reading, the children will continue to develop their reading fluency, by specifically focussing on pace, volume and expression.  They will use techniques such as: jump in, line tracking, echo reading, monkey reading and reader’s theatre to practise reading an age-appropriate book accurately and fluently.

The children will revisit making inferences, on the basis of what is being said and done, and they will use this skill to begin making predictions about what might happen next.  The children will complete a range of comprehension activities, revisiting previously taught comprehension skills as well as practising inferring and predicting through the use of the lead text ‘Tidy – Emily Gravett’.  The children will then apply their learning independently by making inferences and predictions about texts that they can read by themselves.

The children will be completing two learning journeys this half term in writing.  First, they will revisit crucial knowledge relating to tenses: present and past, including the progressive form.  The children will be inspired to write diary entries about real events, both personal and the diary of someone else.  The children will revisit spelling patterns for adding the suffixes _ed and _ing.  They will then learn to make additions, revisions and proofreading corrections to their own writing by re--reading to check that their writing makes sense and that verbs to indicate time are used correctly and consistently, including verbs in the continuous form. 

In order to write for a different purpose, the children will also write a non-chronological report about a mythical creature, linking to their geography learning about Australia. 

In geography, the children will learn to understand similarities and differences through studying the human and physical geography of a small area of the United Kingdom, and of a small area in a contrasting non-European country (Melrose – Australia).  The children will have a Zoom call with someone from Australia during which they will learn more about similarities and differences, comparing and contrasting the geography there, to that of the New Forest.  The children will also learn to use locational and directional language [for example, near and far; left and right], to describe the location of features and routes on a map and they will learn to use aerial photographs and plan perspectives to recognise landmarks and basic human and physical features.  They will use simple fieldwork and observational skills to study the key human and physical features of an area surrounding school.  The children will learn to devise a simple map; and use and construct basic symbols in a key.