Subject 

Teaching and Learning 

Parental Involvement- We encourage parents to choose at least one activity for each subject to support your child in their learning. 

Maths 

The children will learn to represent numbers to 100 in a variety of ways and know their place value by ordering and reasoning. They will solve calculation problems involving addition, subtraction for number facts to 20, find bonds to 100, add and subtract 2-digit numbers crossing ten and add three 1-digit numbers.  

In geometry, the pupils will learn to recognise, name and sort 2D and 3D shapes according to their properties. They will also make patterns with 2D and 3D shapes. 

• Count objects and compare amounts.  

• See what numbers your child can spot up to 100 when out and about and tell you how many Tens and Ones in each number. 

• Your child can practise their Maths skills on Numbots (see login sent home). There are lots of fun games and songs available online too (see below). 

 ICT Maths Games 

 Top Marks Maths games  

English 

English objectives will be covered through a variety of high-quality texts that will spark the pupils’ interest. The texts will cover poetry, fiction and non-fiction.  This term the children are learning to write lists, labels, captions and making posters to show information. They will write narrative stories including modern stories and fairy tales. The children will learn skills to read aloud stories and poems, create story maps, do storytelling through drama and role-play and write in role. The children will learn grammar and punctuation discretely.  

• At home, read as many storybooks as possible from different genres, e.g information books, fairy tales, modern stories and poems. When reading information books, look at the layout including contents page, captions, lists, labels and the index and discuss how these help the reader to find information easily.  

• Practice forming the letters of the alphabet using the letter formation phrases sent in the home-learning pack.  

• Ask your child to write simple lists using bullet points. They can write a list of their toys, a shopping list for you to buy, their favourite food or things they have at home. 

Reading 

The children will be reading a variety of different types of books in their reading practice sessions that they have at school. They will have 3 sessions a week where we focus on using phonics knowledge to decode the words, read aloud with expression and then comprehension to show what they have understood from the text. The children will then bring home with them the book they have read in class to practice reading it again at home with you. 

• Please listen to your child read at least 4 times per week. Children who read regularly at home make the most progress, not just in reading, but right across the curriculum. Please ask us if you need any support.  

• Be a reader yourself - let your child see you reading and talk about your enjoyment of reading. 

Science 

Animals including humans – Growth and Lifecycles 

This term the children will find out and describe the basic needs for survival of animals including humans, know why exercise is important, describe the importance of healthy eating and teeth care and hygiene. They will explore and describe the life cycle of various animals and why they have off springs.  

• Visit the BBC bitesize website to explore the different units of learning about Animals including humans: BBC Bitesize topics  

• Go to the library and get out books or watch nature programmes about different animals that your children show interest in and read them together. Talk about the different body parts of the animals and find out together what they might eat. 

Computing 

This term, the children will learn about online safety, technology outside school and creating pictograms to record results of an experiment. They will also learn to make music digitally by exploring, editing and combining sounds using a computer program. 

• Use the purple mash login that we are sending in the home learning resources packs and practice how to log in and browse through their working area. 

• Visit the BBC bitesize website and read and watch the videos to reinforce the online safety rules to follow: BBC Online Safety  

RE 

Why do we need to give thanks? 

This term the children will learn about how and why people say thank you. They will learn about why harvest is an important time to give thanks, ways and reasons why Hindus and Christians might show their gratitude to God through prayer and songs.    

What do candles mean to people?  

In the second unit, the children will learn how candles and light are used in different religious celebrations such as Diwali, Advent and Hanukkah.   

Here is some key vocabulary we will be using with the children this term. It would be helpful to talk through these words with your child at home: grateful, Hindu, Christians, harvest festival, shrine, puja, worship, hymn,   

Art 

Drawing – Making marks  

The children will explore ways to create a range of different types of lines and mark-making.  They will use different drawing media to create different effects. They will finally create an observational drawing using their knowledge of mark making and different drawing materials learned during this unit of work.   

Painting & mixed media- Colour splash  

In this unit, the children will explore colour mixing through paint play, using a range of tools to paint on different surfaces and creating paintings inspired by Clarice Cliff and Jasper Johns.  

• Explore creating different types of lines and marks at home using whatever available materials you have at home. You can also make marks on the ground using sticks when going to the park or in the garden. 

D&T 

Textiles - Making puppets  

The children will learn different ways of joining fabrics together using pins, staples, glue and simple sewing techniques. They will design a hand puppet using diagrams and words to label parts. Then they will join their two puppets’ fabrics together by using a simple running stitch /overs stitch. Finally, they will decorate their puppet to match their design and evaluate their product. 

• Look at different hand puppets made of fabrics on the internet and if you want you can design and make a sock puppet too using glue and other decorative materials.  

PSHE 

Families and Relationships   

In this unit the children will understand the role of the family in their lives and understand the different types of families. They will also understand that some friendships might make us feel unhappy and how to deal with this and understand how loss and change can affect us.   

Health and Wellbeing  

The children will describe a range of feelings and develop simple strategies for managing them, understand the benefits of physical activity and a healthy diet and learn ways of looking after our teeth.   

Here is some key vocabulary we will be using with the children this term. It would be helpful to talk through these words with your child at home:- relationship, emotions, manners, respect, stereotypes, death, diet, growth mind-set, goal etc 

History 

How am I making history?  

The children will learn some of the key historical words that show the passage of time. They will talk about their memories and events that they celebrate throughout the year and order some pictures of these events on a timeline. They will investigate similarities and differences between childhood now and in the past. They will discuss possible events in their future and add ideas to a time capsule.  

• With your child look at some photographs of the different stages in their lives so far and ask them to describe what they could do at each stage. You can order the pictures to show the passage of time, and you can support your child to order the years they happened in. 

• Talk to your child about how your childhood was similar or different to your child and compare those with grandparents’ childhood too. 

Geography 

What is it like here? 

The children will locate features of their school on an aerial photograph and a map and learn the name of the country, town in which they live in.  They will make a map of the classroom with key features. They will do a survey to see how they and others feel about some areas of the school playground and draw a design to improve three areas of the playground using the results of their survey.  

• Visit the BBC bitesize website to discuss maps: BBC maps  

• Ask your child to draw a map of their bedroom/ kitchen or make a map of one room of their house using objects or Lego. They can also use a key.  

PE 

Fundamentals  

The children will develop the fundamental skills of balancing, running, changing direction, jumping, hopping and skipping.   

Sending and receiving  

They will develop their sending and receiving skills including throwing and catching, rolling, kicking, tracking and stopping a ball. Each lesson will focus on a new skill and each lesson will end with a game in which children can practise the skill learnt.  

Staying active at home will support your child’s progress in PE. Here are some links to follow for some ideas:  

BBC Teach: KS1 Physical Education - BBC Teach  

Oak Academy: PE Oak National Academy   

Please note that these videos are on YouTube and therefore may need some level of supervision. 

Music  

Pulse 

In this unit, children explore keeping the pulse together through music and movement, by exploring their favourite things. 

Tempo 

In Autumn 2, the children will use bodies and instruments to listen and respond to pieces of music with fast and slow speeds; learn and perform a rhyme and a song focussing on fast and slow. 

Read about playing and performing music on the BBC bitesize website: BBC Bitesize