| Strand and Profile | Profiles in Class | Ideas for home |
| Communication and Literacy | We will be focussing on the Traditional Tale of ‘The Three Billy Goats Gruff’’ – looking at the setting, using ‘Talk 4 Writing’, an approach that teaches children the language and structure of stories and non-fiction writing through three stages: Imitation, Innovation, and Independent Application. We will continue to read 1:1 weekly with your child and our Library slot will stay on a Thursday. | Play reading – encourage your child to play at reading before they can read words. Play reading games when you are on public transport or at the supermarket. Set up a regular time for reading – bedtime is excellent |
| Mathematics and Problem Solving | We will move on from describing whether there are “fewer”, “more” or the “same” number of objects to comparing numerical values using the vocabulary “less than”, “greater than” or “equal to” alongside the symbols < > and =. We will use number lines and a variety of concrete resources to support understanding. | Continue to support your child at home with their functional math skills in a variety of ways, e.g. with activities such as cooking, shopping, building blocks, songs and math in the environment. |
| Personal Development | We will continue to develop our personal independence skills, to know about personal hygiene in relation to germs including bacteria and viruses; how they spread and are treated; and the importance of handwashing. We will explore dental health, physical health, hygiene, first aid. We will be visual sequences to support our understanding. | Please feel free to communicate freely if there are any elements of Personal Development that we can support your child with in school and at home which aims to ensure knowledge, skills and understanding to lead confident, healthy and independent lives |
| Physical Development | We will be focussed on gymnastics with emphasis on creating and performing. We will start with simple balance skills, moving and travelling in different ways. We will use simple apparatus to support our movement. We will learn to sequence actions to develop a creative performance. | Encourage your child to stretch and move at home, in the garden and at the park.
Encourage movement in a variety of ways to support healthy growth and development.
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| Science | Our topic is Earth and Space, to include key areas of learning on their appearance; movement of the moon relative to the Earth; day and night. We will discuss our ideas about the sun, moon and Earth and use secondary sources/non-fiction texts/internet to find out about the shape of the sun, moon and Earth. We will explore a globe to discuss what Earth looks like from space. | Do you have a globe at home? Try and point about where we live.
Go into the garden on a clear night and identify the moon, what shape is it? Is it always round?
Where has the sun gone? Why?
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| MFL | We will continue to find out about Germany.
We will be learning new food related German words through cooking German snacks and playing German word/picture Bingo to match the same word/pictures.
| Introduce German words related to foods or items you see at home. We have had great fun pronouncing the word to each other. It’s fun to use Google to press the sound button to repeatedly pronounce the words correctly. |
| RE | We will be looking at Christianity and the Easter story.
We will have an R.E day to read the Easter story. We will be going on a hunt to find the objects of reference related to our story.
We will be decorating eggs, going on an Easter egg hunt and more.
| Enjoy all things related to Easter. Do Easter activities together. Enjoy Easter egg hunts. Talk about the Easter story through sharing books and films. |
| Art
| Our topic here is Sculpture, we will be focussing our attention to ‘Bridges’ and explore the large variety of wonderful bridges we have around the world. We will plan and make our own bridge sculptures using a medium of choice, to support independence and choice making. | Have a look through some of the bridges around the word and try to make one a home using junk modelling.
https://www.albomadventures.com/world-famous-bridges/
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| Music | We will be having a “Journey into Space” using music, dance and sound effects. We will be taking part in a galaxies presentation to experience a journey into space, experience sound, colours, dance and smell. We will be looking at the different planets and using them in our music and dance. | Talk about the different planets. Look at their names, colours and find information out about them. Draw planets or make your own rocket using junk modelling/clay. |
| Humanities | We are going to be finding out about Vikings.
We will be watching clips of what Vikings wore, what they ate, what they travelled in and how they defended their villages.
We will be making shields, making a Viking boat and making Viking bread.
| Read books and watch clips about Vikings.
Talk about their clothes, the foods they ate and how they lived.
Make Viking boats or Viking villages out of Junk modelling.
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