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Welcome back after Summer Holidays! We have a busy but exciting term ahead with special events planned for the school. I’m very much looking forward to working with all of the new and existing children in Oak Class.
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Trip/ Visitor: Shropshire Museums Toys in the Past – Monday 18th November.
Forest School starts Friday 15th November 2019.
There are 2 themes this term in Oak class: Superfit and Come and Play.
Autumn Term 1 – Superfit!
English – Fiction – Stories in Familiar Settings, parts of a story. Non-Fiction –Recipes/ Instructions. Poetry – songs, repetitive poems and shapes. SPAG – types of sentences, speech bubbles, noun, verbs and adjectives.
Maths – Timed body/ fitness challenges. Number and place value up to 100, ordering numbers, addition and subtraction.
Science – Body parts, food groups, healthy eating, keeping fit, hygiene & sleep, medicines. Hand washing investigation. Seasonal changes – autumn.
History – Find out about significant individuals in the past who have contributed to national & international achievements such as Mary Seacole & Florence Nightingale. Find out about aspects of life in Victorian times in relation to medicine and hospitals & make comparisons to those of today.
Geography – In relation to the journeys made by Florence Nightingale and Mary Seacole – name and locate the world’s 7 continents and 5 oceans. Where in the World do exotic fruits originate from?
Art and DT – Giuseppe Arcimboldo – creating pictures in the style of the artist. Observational drawings of fruits in pastels, paints, printing. Cooking and nutrition, following recipes.
Computing – Internet safety. Logging on independently, Maths Whizz, keyboard skills, paint.
RE – Why is the word God so important to Christians?
Music – Body songs.
PE – Attack, defend, shoot – ball skills. Dance and yoga.
PSHE – Relationships – Feelings and Emotions and Healthy Relationships
Worship – friendship
Autumn 2 – Come and Play
Literacy – Fiction: Stories in a familiar setting – Dogger, Toys in Space, Too Many Toys – Story writing, speech, connectives, suffixes.
Non-Fiction: Poster writing about giving our favourite toy away.
Poetry: Winter/ Christmas themed acrostic, description.
Maths – Multiplication and Division, Odd/Even numbers, Shapes, Money, Days of the week and Months of the Year, Time, Tally Charts and Bar Graphs. Challenges.
Science – Identify and name what objects are made from & find out the origins of those materials. Explore the properties of materials and whether they are natural or man-made. Think about the reasons play equipment has been made from the material it has. Investigate which materials are suitable for a given purpose.
Geography – Devise a simple map of school playground/village playground and use and construct basic symbols in a key.
History – History of toys – making comparisons between old and new, Visit from Shropshire Museums – Toys in the past.
ICT – Find out about and explore a variety of devices eg ipod, ipads, wiis, Nintendo ds. Children present information on their gadgets. Finding images safely, copying and pasting, printing and saving. Keyboard skills – sentence maker: a day at the park. 2paint. Beebot programming.
PE – Ball skills – football and Forest Schools.
Art and DT – Design and make a model of a playground ride. Sketching playground rides. Printing with natural objects found in the playground – leaves etc.
PSHE – Health and Wellbeing: Healthy lifestyles
Music – Action/ game songs. Christmas songs with percussion.
RE – Why do Christians perform nativity plays at Christmas?
Worship – Humility