This term, our class text is ‘The Tale of Peter Rabbit’. We will be looking at this in both our English land Whole Class Reading lessons. The children will be summarising the events of the story throughout. Our focus will be on writing coherent sentences with finger spaces, capital letters and full stops in the correct place. The children will be expected to know that a simple sentence contains a subject, verb and object. Children in Year 2 will be expected to join sentences together using a conjunction. 

A great emphasis will be placed on handwriting this term, as children cannot be assessed as working at expected at the end of Key Stage 1 if they do not form letters correctly, starting and finishing in the right place, size them correctly compared to the rest of the letters, and use spaces between words. The final written piece for the text will be a set of instructions for escaping Mr McGregor’s garden using imperative verbs, as well as time adverbials for Year 2. 

In Maths, we will be delving deeper in the four operations, looking at adding up to 20 for Year 1 and 100 for Year 2. We will be completing missing number problems and trying to demonstrate our understanding using bar models and part whole models. The children are expected to learn the number bond pairs up to both 10 and 20 until they have automatic recall, so we will be practising this within class and any practise at home would be appreciated. The children will also be looking at multiplication and division, finding relationships between the operations and using them to make finding the answers easier. 

In Science this term our topic is Electricity. The children will learn how to keep safe when using electricity and begin to explore basic circuits, learning what is needed to make a bulb and a buzzer work. We will investigate scientific drawing as we learn how to record our findings. We will conduct experiments to find out which materials are conductors and which are insulators. 

In Geography this term we will be learning about the British Isles. We will be learning the difference between the United Kingdom and the British Isles. We will also be finding out important geographical facts about each country, such as physical features like mountains, lakes and valleys, and human features such as capital cities, populations and flags. 

This term in Art we will be studying portraits and self-portraits using the work of artists such as Di Vinci, Rembrandt, Van Gogh, and Picasso. We will be developing skills such as creating tones, tints and shades to portray emotions. We will discuss how artists use representation to tell the viewer about the subject of the portraits. We will practise our line, shapes and form to accurately reflect physical features. We will also experiment with perspective, looking at a face from the front and in profile. 



In RE we will be answering the question: Who is Allah to Muslims and why is he important to them? We will find out about the Prophet Muhammad, the Qur’an, and how the teachings of the holy book encourage Muslims to show kindness to others.