St Thomas' Church of England Aided Primary

For terms 3 & 4 our topic title is - 

Would I like to be...an author?

In English we will be reading traditional tales including Billy Goats Gruff and The Gingerbread Man.  Reception will learn Phase 3 phonics and reading & spelling tricky and common words.  Year 1 children will be continuing with Phase 4 phonics, spelling tricky words & common words and developing their handwriting.

In Maths we will be learning 3D shapes - revising 2D shapes, naming & sorting 3D shapes and creating patterns.  Place Value - 1 to 50: more/less, counting in 2s and 10s, ordering numbers, counting on/back from any number.  Addition & Subtraction - using objects, recording number sentences, adding by counting on, finding number bonds (2 numbers that add together to make10/20).

n subjects our learning will be based on;

Design & Technology - D & T week to link with our creative curriculum - Would I like to be an author topic.

Computing - Using the new web resource iLearn2 - Mouse & Keyboard skills

Creative Curriculum topic - Our afternoon work will link to our traditional tales/fairy tales books through Science, D & T and Computing.

PE - Gymnastics and Dance with a specialist teacher.

RE - What can we learn from stories? - Noah's Ark, Jonah and the Whale, Daniel and the Lions.

RSHE - Our topic titles are - Term 3 - What helps us stay healthy?  Term 4 - What jobs do people do?

Science - Materials; sorting textures, waterproof/non-waterproof - we will link our Science topic to Science week as well.

Music - Charanga with Mrs Rampling