English lessons take place daily and the children will learn to produce more detailed pieces of writing. They will learn to include - capital letters, full stops, finger spaces, neat handwriting and conjunctions. Children will become more confident in writing in different styles and checking their writing at the end of the lesson. Children are encouraged to use their RWI skills when spelling words in their writing and also when spelling unfamiliar words. Using exciting vocabulary is very important and we always collect a range of words that we can use in our writing each week.
Read Write Inc is our daily phonics program where the children work in small groups to practise their blending of sounds, reading of tricky words and spelling rules with the help of Fred Frog. They also use their knowledge of sounds and blending to read ‘nonsense’ words. As well as this, they are given the opportunity to use the weekly text to develop their comprehension skills.
In maths, we use ‘White Rose Maths Scheme’ which enables children to become more confident and develops key knowledge. The children are given the opportunity to explore maths questions using maths resources, share with others and then try some questions for themselves. They are challenged daily with maths problems and being able to explain their answer using the correct vocabulary. Each lesson, a child is awarded with ‘Mathematician of the Day’ which they get very excited about!
Our Geography topics are ‘Our place in the world’, ‘Our United Kingdom’ and ‘Our Local Park’. The children will look at aerial photographs and explore maps, developing key skills to enable them to expand their knowledge beyond local level. Whilst learning about maps they will begin to use directional vocabulary and key terminology such as human and physical features. Whilst learning about the UK, the children will name the four countries and capital cities and begin to identify characteristics of each country.
Our History topics are ‘Our changing lives’, 'The Great Fire of London’ and ‘Local History’. The children will look at different decades and how things have changes over time, including houses, transport and technology. They will then learn about how the Great Fire of London started, how it spread and how it has changed London since. In our local history topic the children will look at how school days have changed from Victorian times.