| Strand and Profile | Profiles in Class | Ideas for Home |
| Communication and Literacy | In English, we will continue focusing on character using the story Old Hat. We will do lots of immersion into the book looking at a wide range of hats and hat based activities before moving towards working on description of a character by using lots of descriptive vocabulary. | At home, you could explore different hats, thinking about describing them as well as coming up with simple sentences about the hat. You may want to think about everyday objects as a hat. |
| Mathematics and Problem Solving | Maths this half term will focus on mass and volume looking at heavier and lighter as well as using scales to get measurements and comparing the mass of different objects, we will also explore the terms full and empty, and we will take these skills and transfer them into our cooking sessions. | At home, you could do some cooking and practise weighing out the ingredients as well as looking at different objects and comparing their mass using the terms heavier or lighter. You may wish to explore full and empty thinking about drinks or water play. |
| Personal Development | This term we will be looking at how to be a good friend, we will discuss the different types of relationships we may have before looking at what makes a good friend, we will practise the skills of a good friend such as sharing, turn taking as well as creating a class guide to a good friend. | At home, you might like to write the story ‘Horton Hears a Who’ by Dr Seuss, you may also model and discuss the skills such as sharing or turn taking when playing a game or when cooking or eating. |
| Physical Development | Throughout our sessions, we will continue to focus on multi-skills where we will use games to help practise a wide range of skills including throwing, catching, hitting, kicking and running. Each game will have a key focus for a skill but will also provide opportunities to practise some of the other skills learnt. | At home, you could practise the different skills, this could be in the garden or on a trip to the park, you can use different objects to practise hitting, kicking, running, throwing and catching. You may wish to play a sport or make up a game. |
| Understanding the World - History
| We will be looking at local history such as the local lifeboats and the great flood of 1953; we will do this in a variety of ways including stories and art. | At home, it would be nice for the children to listen to stories from older relative’s o neighbours and start to talk or think about what life was like in the 1950’s. |
| Understanding the World - RE | In RE we will have a day where we focus on Hanukah the Jewish festival of light. We will look at the story of Hanukah, complete some art and explore some resources linked to the festival. | You may wish to explore the festival of Hanukah yourself at home or look at different stories. You may also wish to explore the different symbols that they use. |
| Understanding the World - Science | This half term we will look at animals including humans, this will give us the opportunity to look the different stages of human life, what we can do now that we couldn’t when we was younger as well as thinking about the changes in voice that might occur as we get older. | You may wish to look at different photo of family members at different ages and order these in age order. You may also discuss what changes have happened throughout either your child’s or your life. |
| Expression and Creativity - Art | Art is going to be about our senses, we will create sensory pictures using different materials and textures, make musical art and have a look how colours can affect our pictures | At home, you may wish to create your own textured pictures or use household objects to create a musical piece of art such as kitchen roll tubes to make a sound stick. |
| Expression and Creativity - DT | Cooking this half term is all around biscuits, we will taste different biscuits, look at the packaging and finally bake different biscuits following recipes and using our maths skills to weigh out the ingredients. | At home, you may wish to bake some different biscuits or cookies. You may also like to describe the biscuit you are eating or give it a score out of 10. |
| Personalised Learning
| Throughout the half term we each child will have a chance to focus on their PLG’s which will take place at various points throughout the day. We will also have the opportunity to practise different skills to help promote independence and boost self-esteem. | At home, you could encourage your child to be more independent by getting them to do tasks like making their own drink or finding their school clothes. You may also wish to focus on some of their EHCP outcomes in small chunks |
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