Creative

Music We will explore music through singing with our specialist music teacher. We will use songs and games to help us learn lots of different styles of music and a wide range of songs and tunes.

Design Technology We will investigate ‘moving pictures’ and the mechanisms that make them work, including sliders. We will use this to creative moving picture posters to advertise our movie. Taking inspirations from the 3 bears will be make porridge using skills such as mixing and pouring, adding other ingredients to see which we like best.

Art We will continue to explore creatively in our Creative Studio - where we can create images and models both individually and while working together. 

English

Traditional Tales Using the movie ‘Roald Dahl’s Revolting Rhymes’ as inspiration, we will explore traditional tales, including Goldilocks, Red Riding Hood and the tale of the three pigs. We will write our won stories using these characters and use the stories to inspire our work at ‘Station Studios'

Poetry We will listen to and read a range of traditional British poetry including ‘Now we are 6’. We will retell them orally, through performance and play.

Maths

Addition and Subtraction We will look at symbols and language relating to adding and subtracting and learn strategies to help us add and subtract numbers and objects.

Number: place value We will continue to explore and learn about number and place value including ordering numbers, ordinal numbers (1st, 2nd etc.) and the number line. This will also help us with adding and subtracting.

Counting in 2s, 5s and 10s We will explore counting in different patterns, mainly 2/5 and 10s and will learn about each of these times tables. We will use songs to help us and look for patterns to remember.

PSHE

Our whole school Jigsaw PSHE focus this half term is ‘Dreams and Goals’. In Year 1 we will explore this through circle time, games, activities and videos. We will learn about how to set goals and tackle challenges.

Understanding the World

Science We will continue to observe the changing seasons as we move from Winter into Spring. We will discuss what happens in Spring.

Computing We will begin to explore programming and coding using ‘Beebots’ to plan a route for Red Riding Hood. We will work in teams and follow each others’ instructions. We will also use technology to creative and record digital puppets to retell our favourite traditional tales. We will continue to learn about online safety.

RE We will find out about what it means to be Jewish, exploring the lives of Jewish people and  their special times and places.

Physical

This half term we will continue to develop our movement skills in our PE lessons, one of which will be dance with a Newcastle United Foundation specialist.