Summer Term 2 (2025)

Writing

This half term, the children will learn what a verb is. A verb is a doing word and they will act it out accordingly before stopping them in writing. The children will then revisit how to sentence by recapping capital letters, full stops and finger spaces. Following this, the children will revisit what an adjective is by describing different fairy tale characters. Finally, the children will build their stamina for writing by writing multiple sentences.

Maths

This half term, the children will begin by verbally counting up to 20 whilst revisiting addition and subtraction within 20. Following the exposure to the numbers to 20 the children will revisit odd and even numbers, doubling, halving, grouping and sharing. They will apply what they have already learnt to a wider range of numbers.

Reading

In reading, the children will listen to different fairy tales and then learn to describe characters and settings using adjectives. Following this, they will describe key events from a narrative by retelling the story they have heard. Finally, the children will use what they have learnt in the story to then anticipate what might come next.

Science

This half term, the children will investigate natural processes. We will link this to our fairy tale learning. Throughout provision the children will investigate and experiment with floating, melting, magnets, light and sound.

Geography

In Geography, the children will compare England to Zimbabwe. We will begin looking at the two locations separately before making comparison. The children will be asked to discuss how they know using their knowledge of temperature, weather, landscape, animals etc.

PSED

In PSED, the children will explore the concept of growing and changing. Initially, they will think about changes in the world that they already know. They will then build on this knowledge about changes in life cycle within animals and plants. Finally, the children will look at growing and changing linking to human and how boys and girls compare. 

Art

Throughout provision, the children will apply their learning about sculptures. They will create patterns and investigate different textures before creating their own sculptures using a wide range of materials.

PE

The children will continue with the REAL PE programme and focus on health and fitness. They will learn why exercise is important for good health and will note how their body changes when they are exercising, taking about how they are feeling they will explore movements that will improve agility and co-ordination using balls. They will practise rolling, chasing and collecting.

History

In our history learning we have discussed what the past is and learnt the term chronological.   We looked at a timeline of a human’s life, putting the stages into a chronological order.   We discussed that year R is a significant event in their life.  We will order photos of significant parts of the year, including, Christmas play, the ducks, sports day.

RE

In our RE learning we will look at special clothing and why specific clothings are special for 2 different traditions, Christianity and Sikhi.  We will discuss why some clothes are special, and how people feel when they wear them compared to how they might feel if they couldn’t wear them.

DT

In our design and technology learning we will explore what it is to evaluate.  We will use this knowledge and apply it to transportation.  First, looking at toy transportation devices, cars, lorries, boats and aeroplanes and evaluating them on the basis of how they move and how much they can carry.   Then, we will make our own transportation devices out of junk modelling and selfevaluate on the same basis.

Music

In music we will be discussing timbre, we will learn how to use vocal sounds, body percussion, classroom percussion and homemade percussion instruments to make a desired sound.  We will be discussing all of this in the theme of the seaside.