Summer Term 1 (2025)

Launch

As our topic launch, the children will come into school to find video footage of a dinosaur loose in school! The children will begin their jaws, paws and claws unit learning about animals that are now extinct. They will have the opportunity to talk about what they would like to find out and share their prior knowledge with us in an open question and answer session.

Landing

For our landing, the children will be visited by a mobile farm where they can learn about and care for the animals.

Communication and Language

In Summer 1, children will explore new vocabulary based around our topic of paws, jaws and claws. We will continue to add this to our tiered vocabulary wall, so children are aware of how we can upgrade the language we are using. We will also discuss that children can ask for clarification within our environment if they unsure about what a word means.

Physical development

The children will begin recapping using equipment in PE in an energetic way. They will practice receiving object by getting into the ready position (wide base, in line with the ball and on the balls of her feet). The children will practice responding quickly to improve their agility.

PSED

The children will continue to develop their understanding of being their best. They will learn about how to keep themselves healthy through eating, sleep and physical exercise. They will also think about how to be resilient and how to keep a positive mindset.

Writing

During this half term, the children will develop their understanding of forming letters by being exposed to capital letters. They will firstly form these before matching them with the corresponding lower case letter. They will then discuss the purpose of a capital letter for example a proper noun, pronoun, I and the start of a sentence.

Reading

In reading, the children will think about rhyming words and how to continue a rhyming string before predicting the rhyming pair as part of a story. Following this, the children will practice retelling the story before retelling the story in their own words.

Maths

During this learning journey the children will explore odd and even numbers and the pattern that they follow. Children will learn that even numbers are multiples of 2 and odd numbers are not. We will also discuss doubling and understand that this means finding twice as much. Then finally, the children will practise halving by using sharing and grouping strategies.

Understanding the world

During Summer 1, the children will learn what life is like in England. To do this, they will find England on a world map and a UK map. They will then look at the capital city of England and locate this on the map. Whilst looking at London, the children will explore landmarks and transport. In history, the children will look at endangered animals and how this has impacted history and will impact it in the future. Finally, in RE the children will explore the concept of specialness and then apply this to themselves and understand what this means for Christians.

Expressive arts and design

The children will learn what a sculpture is and begin to explore a range of design techniques, tools and materials used to make a sculpture. They will explore techniques used by sculptors: Faith Bebbington and Michelle Reader. In music we will explore timbre, the sounds that different instruments make and how we use them to make a sound. We will continue to use our imagination in our role-play corner and sing songs to help develop our creativity.