Class Teacher - Mrs Pyman

Teaching Assistant - Caroline

Happy New Year, happy 2019! Here's to another wonderful term of awesome learning. 

The last week of last term was spent enjoying our theme of 'The Polar Express. Various activities were carried out linked to this magical book. We took an imaginary 'train ride' to the North Pole, we enjoyed creating our own reading dens and perhaps the highlight was our pyjama day!

This term we will be focusing on the elements of a good story., using the story mountain - beginning, middle and ending. We will be exploring traditional tales, particularly Jack and the Beanstalk and The Enormous turnip. We will be learning about present and past tense as well as moving onto Phase 4 in our phonics. In word work we will be learning how to use conjunctions and introduce adverbs. 

This term we will continue learning about place value, one step problem solving, addition and subtraction within 20, We will be exploring measurement, namely length and weight as well as consolodating time to o'clock and half past. We will encourage faster mental maths and skip counting in 2's, 5's and 10's. We will learn the number names and begin gathering simple data to display in a pictogram or block graph.

This term we will continue celebrating our school's diamond jubilee. In History we will be learning about events beyond living memory. We will be focusing on the Titanic and the Great fire of London. In Science, it will be a Gardeners World with us growing things, primarily beans to link in with our Literacy topic of Jack and the beanstalk. We will carry out some simple scientific investigations to understand more the needs of plants.