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Autumn Term 1
Autumn Term 1
Curriculum
This term’s themes: Wonders of the World – What makes us wonderfully unique?
Literacy – We will be reading environmental print, recognising and writing our own name. We will have a big focus on our daily phonics activities. The children will be beginning to learn how to identify sounds in words and how to segment or blend them. We will be looking at lots of books in our literacy lessons and we will be discussing our favourite characters.
Maths – We will be exploring numbers to 10 and beyond, accurately counting different amounts in a range of fun and exciting ways. We will also be learning how to subitise.
Communication and Language – We will be learning about the importance of speaking and listening to each other, sharing ideas, responding to instructions, answering questions and using language in imaginative play.
Personal, Social and Emotional Development – Children will be settling in to their new class, routines and building relationships with both adults and their peers. We will be talking about who we are, our families and the things we enjoy doing. During our Jigsaw PSHE sessions we will be discussing a range of emotions and feelings, exploring ‘Being Me in this World’. The PSHE books that will be used in the PSHE lessons this half-term are Hands Are Not for Hitting by Martine Agassi and Dogger by Shirley Hughes
Physical Development – We will be continuing to develop our fine and gross motor skills indoors, outdoors and during PE sessions. We will focus on developing shoulder and finger strength and dexterity in order to be able to hold a pencil and form letters correctly.
Expressive Arts and Design – We will have opportunities to paint, draw and use play dough. We will be designing, cutting, sticking and mixing colours. We will be creating self-portraits and portraits of friends, making collages, seasonal and topic related pictures. To develop our musical creativity, we will be exploring sounds different musical instruments make.
Understanding the Word – We will talk about some of our similarities and differences in relation to friends or family. The children will be encouraged to select and use resources around the classroom to build and construct a variety of models. The children will learn about a variety of religions by finding out about their celebrations, special stories and aspects of their identity and relationships.
Autumn Term 1
Year 1 Autumn 1 Curriculum:
This term’s topics:
Literacy: Non-fiction texts from different cultures, labels, list and captions.
Maths: Number, number facts, counting on and counting back.
RE: How do you live well with family and friends?
Science: Seasonal Changes.
Geography: Why can’t a meerkat live at the North Pole? Looking at locating and naming the four countries of the UK and its surrounding seas, locating and naming the seven continents and five oceans, and recognising what makes each of these places special.
Art and Design: Formal elements of art.
Design and Technology: Mechanisms – wheels and axels
PSHE and Citizenship: Being Me in My World.
Computing: Computing systems and networks – technology around us.
PE: Running skills and using our hands.
Music: Carnival of the Animals.
Autumn Term 1
The curriculum this term:
English: Looking at Black History Month, focusing on texts from a range of cultures and which include a diverse range of authors and main characters within the texts.
Mathematics: Exploring the value of a number up to 100, using Base 10 equipment.
History: What makes London wonderful? What amazing events has our wonderful city been through? How did The Great Fire of London start?
Science: Living things and their habitats.
RE: Where did the world come from and how should we look after it?
PSHE: Being Me in this World
Art: Drawing – Tell a story
Design and Technology: Structures – Baby Bear’s chair
PE: Practising our jumping skills and learning how to use our hands.
Music: Carnival of the Animals.
Spanish: Myself – me and my world.
Computing: IT around us
Autumn Term 1
Year 3 Autumn 1 Curriculum
English: We will be focusing on Black History Month, this will involve reading texts from a range of cultures and exploring a more diverse range of authors and main characters within the texts. The children will be exploring the texts ‘Fly Eagle Fly’ and ‘Wangari’s Trees of Peace.’
Maths: We will focus on number facts, numbers to 100 and then move onto addition and subtraction.
History: ‘Has our wonderful world always looked like this?’ The children will be exploring different types of dinosaurs and how volcanoes are formed.
Science: We will be exploring different rocks, fossil and soils and their properties.
Religious Education: How do Jewish people celebrate their beliefs at home and in the synagogue? The children will learn about how Jewish people celebrate the festivals of Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur.
PSHE: Being Me in My World
Computing: Computing systems and networks and how computers connect to each other.
PE: Athletics
Spanish: Me and My World – My family
Art and Design: Drawing skills
Design and Technology: Electrical systems – electric poster
Music: Learning about sustainability through music.
Autumn Term 1
Curriculum
English: This half term, our whole school focus will be Black History Month. This is reflected in our focus text, which will be Journey to Jo’burg by Beverley Naidoo. The children will be analysing characters and will have the opportunity to write their own setting descriptions as well as parts of a narrative and poetry.
Mathematics: Over the course of this term, children will first recap their prior learning. They will then be starting the Maths No Problem syllabus with Chapter 1 – numbers to 10000, then Chapter 2 – addition and subtraction within 10000 and finally Chapter 3 – multiplication and division.
Geography: We will be using maps and atlases to locate countries with the world’s most famous and iconic rivers and mountains. Children will investigate the creation and structure of rivers and mountains. They will then build their understanding of the water cycle and learn about the impact of water on communities.
Science: In science this half term, children will be learning about the different states of matter. They will spend time experimenting with different materials and discussing their properties.
Religious Education: This term, the Big Question is: What is special to me and the people in my community? Children will have the opportunity to see and understand how diverse our community is and will be able to discover similarities and differences between places of worship and religious practices.
PSHE: Our topic is Being Me in My World. Children will discuss what it means to be themselves and also what it means to be a part of a team.
Art and Design: Children will be focussing on the skill of drawing this half term.
Music: The Supernatural World (Greig, Mussorgsky, Saint Saens)
PE: Athletics
Computing: Computing systems and networks
Spanish: Me and My world: The clothes and the clothes shop – role-play. Book: A los Marcianos les Encantan los Calzoncillos by Claire Freedman and Ben Cort
Design and Technology: Electric Systems – Torches
Autumn Term 1
Curriculum
English:
This term there is going to be a whole-school focus on texts linked to Black History Month and multiculturalism with a more diverse range of authors and main characters within the texts. For their Big Write, the children will be writing a narrative. Later on in the term, we will be looking at poetry and analysing poetic structure.
Maths:
Number is the first maths topic the children get to experience during this half term. The children will be learning about place value and the composition of larger numbers. Later on this term, we will be delving deeper into exploring number by looking at patterns of numbers and methods for addition and subtraction.
BPS Curriculum:
Our theme is how to rediscover the wonders of the ancient world. We will be considering different civilisations, such as those during the Shang Dynasty, Indus Valley, Ancient Sumer and Ancient Egyptian times and looking at some of their societal and cultural beliefs and practices. In Art, we will be looking at the significance of painting portraits, as well as mixed media.
Science:
This term we will learning about properties of, and changes in, materials. The children will compare and group together everyday materials based on their properties. They will have the opportunity to demonstrate that dissolving, mixing and changes of state are reversible changes.
Religious Education:
The children will learn about a variety of religious and non-religious beliefs and viewpoints. They will have the opportunity to discuss the impact beliefs have on actions, and learn about other beliefs in their community.
Autumn Term 1
Curriculum
English: Narrative and Poetry
We will begin the half term reading ‘Ghost Boys’ by Jewell Parker Rhodes. The focus of this will be to examine the common features and cultural importance of narrative writing.
We will also study the poet Joseph Coelho. During this week, we will examine poetic and literary features, such as figurative language and rhyme.
Maths: Number and Place Value
Our focus for the first half term will be on consolidating number skills for values up to 10 million. Through the Maths No Problem! scheme, pupils will also further their reasoning and problem solving skills through use of the concrete-pictorial-abstract approach.
Curriculum: Where are the wonders of the world?
The children will be brushing up on their geographical skills, using different types of atlases to locate the wonders of the world.
Science: Evolution and Inheritance
Children this half term will be investigating how humans and animals have evolved.
Religious Education: Similarities and Differences between Religions and World Views
By the end of this topic, children will be able to compare differing religious and world views.
