Class Two – Years 1 & 2


Class 2

Spring Term Curriculum 2024:

Maths: To start the spring term off the children will be developing their understanding of 2D and 3D shapes and their properties. We will then move on to learning about money. Following on from this we will then deepen our understanding of length and height, finishing the term off with learning the concept of multiplication and division. We will also continue to deepen our knowledge of place value and how we can read and write numbers to 100 using the correct formation.

English: We will begin by reading ‘The Three Little Pigs’ with a focus on traditional tales. This will lead us into lots of reading, acting, story mapping and creating our own versions of the story.

During the second half of the term we will be focusing our English work on the video extract ‘The Tale of Peter Rabbit’. This will lead us into looking at the different stories of Peter Rabbit and how we can build up our vocabulary into creating our own story setting using descriptive writing. We will continue to enhance our vocabulary skills during our English lessons.

Reading will play a big part in getting to know and understand our whole class texts and we will also read independently as well as during Guided Reading sessions (group reading) during which, children will be able to apply their learning from their daily Phonics lessons.

Science: Our Science topic this term is materials. We will be learning about a variety of different materials, their properties and their uses! This will include using different experiments to gain a deeper understanding!

Topic: (History and Geography) During the first part of the spring term we will be focusing on Geography locating and identifying characteristics of four countries and the capital cities of the UK including its surrounding seas.  In the second half of the spring term we will have a History focus which links with our English work of Beatrix Potter.

PE: Mrs Craggs will continue to teach the children PE on a Monday afternoon which will be the fundamental skills. Miss Heaton continues to teach PE on a Wednesday afternoon which we will start with dance!

 

Computing: This term we will be learning about moving robots and how algorithms work and debugging simple programs.

 

 

RE:  Our whole school Christian Value is ‘Thankfulness’ this term. There will also be learning linked to Baptism and Easter.

DT: We will be exploring different structures in the first part of spring then we will be learning about different textiles in spring 2.

Art:  As well as expressing ourselves and exploring different media in our creative area, we will also be using clay to create an animal sculpture inspired from the artist Nick Blackman. We will also continue to look at buildings in our local area and create some architectural prints of them.

Music: This term we will have a focus on rhythm and pitch looking at different tempos and dynamics.

SCARF: During our PSHE sessions this term we will be focusing on special people around us and discovering why our bodies are important to us!