Autumn 1 - God

What do Christians believe God is Like?

By the end of this unit, children will be able to:

• Identify what a parable is.
• Tell the story of the Lost Son from the Bible and recognise a link with the concept of God as a forgiving Father.
• Understand what this story means to Christians.
• Give examples of ways that Christians show their belief in God as loving and forgiving; for example, by saying sorry; by seeing God as welcoming them back; by forgiving others.
• Give an example of how Christians put their beliefs into practice in worship; by saying sorry to God, for example.
• Think, talk and ask questions about whether they can learn anything from the story for themselves, exploring different ideas.

Autumn 2 - Incarnation

Why is Christmas so important to Christians? How does our background influence who we are?

By the end of this unit, children will be able to:

• Retell the story of Jesus’ birth and explain why Jesus is important for Christians.
• Recognise that stories of Jesus’ life come from the Gospels.
• Give examples of ways in which Christians use the story of the nativity to guide their beliefs and actions at Christmas.
• Decide what they personally have to be thankful for at Christmas time.
• Know that Advent for Christians is a time of getting ready for Jesus’ coming.

Writing

In English we will be starting the year by looking at labels and captions, followed by sentence writing and high frequency words. We will be building up to writing a basic diary entry and practise using capital letters, full stops and finger spaces.

Handwriting

Handwriting is taught daily as part of our phonics writing and through our English lessons.

Reading

Throughout the week we hear readers individually and in group reading sessions. We have book talk sessions once a week and guided reading sessions twice a week.

Phonics

Phonics is taught daily and follows the Essential Letters and Sounds scheme. See the phonics section below for supporting with phonics at home. 

Spelling and Grammar

Through our spelling list, you will see which phonics sounds we have been working on.  Please encourage your child to become familiar with these sounds in their reading and writing.  Phonicsplay.co.uk has some fun games for child to play that will reinforce the sounds covered. 

Geometry

• Positional Language Including Ordinal Numbers

Numbers to Ten

• Finding Patterns in Numbers (including subitising)
• Counting and Comparison (more, less, fewer)
• Estimating and Ordering
• Regrouping the Whole
• Part Whole Addition and Subtraction
• Solving Problems Using Part or Whole Unknown
• Comparison
• Equality and Balance

Numbers to Twenty

• Making 10 and Some More
• Estimating and Ordering, 1 More and 1 Less
• Doubling and Halving
• Odd and Even Numbers

Geometry

• Names and Properties of 2-D and 3-D Shape
  
  Maths Games

Practise key maths skills using the link above to Top Marks. 

Please use the link button below to log in to Numbots - login details can be found in children's reading record. Please ask if you need reminding of these. 

Autumn 1 - Forces and Space: Seasonal Changes

This unit focuses on exploring how seasonal changes affect trees, weather patterns and daylight hours.

Children will be able to:

• Name the four seasons in order and describe the typical weather in each.
• Name some activities and events in the four seasons.
• Describe the appearance of a tree’s leaves in each season.
• Recall that summer has the most daylight hours and winter has the least daylight hours.
• Record data about the temperature across the four seasons.
• Label a map of the UK with capital cities and seasonal weather symbols.
• Complete a pictogram and use it to answer simple questions.
• Record data about the temperature across the four seasons

Autumn 2 - Animals: Sensitive Changes

This unit focuses on identifying and naming body parts and conducting practical activities with the senses to spot patterns and answer questions.

• Draw and label human body parts.
• Identify the body parts associated with each sense.
• Compare and group body parts.
• Begin to recognise patterns in data and use these to answer questions.
• Record data in a table.
• Measure using non-standard units. 

Please follow the link to find information on the phonics scheme and how to support with phonics at home:  

Supporting with Phonics at Home

Phase 2 - This is a video produced by Essential Letters and Sounds to guide and support parents with using the pure sounds for reading.

Phase 3 - This is a video produced by Essential Letters and Sounds to guide and support parents with using the pure sounds for reading.

Phase 5 - This is a video produced by Essential Letters and Sounds to guide and support parents with using the pure sounds for reading.

Oxford Owl Website - Phonics Support