| Subject | Profiles | Ideas for Home |
| Maths | This half term we will be exploring position and direction and money. We will be exploring where something is and exploring positional language such as left, right, above, below, forwards and backwards. In money we will be looking at recognising both coins and notes as well as counting money. | At home you could discuss the position of something and begin using positional language or you could play a game of hide and seek and hide objects in a certain way. For money you can practice recognising coins and notes at home or begin getting the children to pay in shops. |
| English | In English we will be looking at funny poetry and word play. We will explore a wide range of funny poems as well as begin to create our own poems either as a group or individually. We will have a look at word play and exploring differnet silly sentences that might not make full sense. | At home you could read silly poems or create silly rhymes. You could create silly sentences and then draw, act or use toys to create that sentence as a scene. |
| Science
(Understanding the World)
| Troughout our science lessons w wi be exploring electricity. We will explore simple circuits alongside keeping safe around electricity and electrical safety. We will make simple circuits as well as operating evry day electrical applinces. We will experimentwith making simple changes within a circuit to see what happens. | At home you could encourage the children to use different electrical equipment under adult supervision where needed as well as exploring difrent battery operated devices, You could dicuss electrical safety an look at different dangers either at home or when out and about. |
| PSHE and
Citizenship
| PSHE will be a chance to look our similarities and differences that we have. We will discuss our physical attributes as well as family make ups and interests and hobies. We will look at what happens when we change our apperences as well as carrying our surveys across the school on physical appearance. | You could look at the similarities and differences in the people who live in your house or discuss wider family or friends who you know well. You may want to dress up and alter your appearance and have people guess what has changed. |
| Art and DT
(Creative)
| Art provides opportunities to develop our colour mixing sikills and make secondery colours and colour wheels.
In DT we will be exploring photo frames by dismantaling pre made frames, and exploring the different materials before creating our own photo frame.
| At home you could discuss the different coulours you see and how they are made, what coulours we have to mix together to get them.
For DT you could discuss the photo frames you have in your house, the materials and shapes used.
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| PE
(Led by Jason)
| Pe is an opportunity to develop our cooperation skills through using the parachute and playin different parachute games working as a class or small group to do so. | You could develop different games or situations where you have to cooperate with each other and work together to achieve a goal or outcome. |
| Humanities
History
(Understanding the world)
| History this half term is looking at the Anglo Saxons. We will be looking at the differnet creations that the Anglo Saxons made as well as exploring timelines. We will link culture and religion into how they came to a settlement, the village names and invasions. | You could vist a library to find books on the Anglo Saxons where you can read and discuss information forund. You may also find story books that help to tell the story of the Anglo Saxon invasion that you may wish to share with your children. |
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Music
(Creative)
| Music is all about singing games. We will be incorporating singing and actions into both familiure and unfamiliar singing games. We will create ostinatos as a class and place these into singing games that involve clapping and skipping. | At home you can play differnet singing games, this could be in the car or out on a walk. Link singing games into daily routines as short fun activities inbetween daily tasks or jobs. |
| RE
(Understanding the world)
| RE is looking at worshop, pilgrimage and sacred places with a link to Sikhism. We will explore am appreciation of stillness and quiet. We will explore cooperation nd working together, what this look likes and how to do it effectively. Finally, we will look at features of religious life. | At home you could sit still and quiet and explore and appreciate the calm and stillness of the world around you. You could explore the term guru and what this means. |
| MFL
(Understanding the world)
| Greece is the country and language we will be looking at for our MFL days across the Summer term. We will explore the language, culture and food alongside learning basic phrases such as hello, how are you and goodbye. We will also briefely discuss the history that has happened in Greece. | At home you could look at differen Greek foods and explore the tastes, smells and flavours. You might want to look at the country, where it is located and what the flag looks like or practice saying hello in Greek. |
| Computing | Computing will start with a look at online safety and what we can do to stay safe online before looking at sorting and matching. Computing will be done both as a stand alone lesson and incorporated in cross curricula activities. | You can encourage the children to match and sort different objects in a variety of differnet ways. You can get them to lable different things and make labels both by writing and typing. |
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