Miss Caff
Teacher
My favourite book is 'How to Train your Dragon' by Cressida Cowell. When I was at school, this book was read to me by my class teacher. I became engrossed in the adventurous, magical and wondrous characters within the story and the ups and downs within the plot. I was hooked. The book follows a young Viking boy, Hiccup who wants to be just like his dad until he meets an interesting dragon, Toothless. The bravery, independence and teamwork within this book resonated with me as a child and still do now. I will continue to read this book and recommend it to all of my students.
Miss Franklin
Support Staff
My favourite children's book is The Lion, The Witch and the wardrobe. This book follows four children into a mystery world which they accidentally enter whilst hiding in a wardrobe. They experience excitement, curiosity and fear as they enter the new, mysterious world. Throughout this story the children undertake numerous challenges in order to protect each other and meet new people and creatures whilst exploring the wonders of this new, mysterious place.
Spring 2
Welcome back after half term everyone! The title for Spring 2 is ‘Our Wonderful World’.
In Geography we will be thinking about seasonal patterns and learning about the continents and oceans. By the end of the unit we hope that the children can confidently name the seven continents and five major oceans.
In Science, we will be focusing on plants and seasonal changes. We will be looking at the plants that grow in our local area, the lifecycle of a typical flowering plant and what plants need to grow. We will also be thinking about the four different seasons and the signs and weather in each one.
Read Write Inc. and spelling will continue to be taught daily alongside our English lessons. This half term we will start by exploring the story of ‘Toby and the Great Fire of London’. Then we will be completing our ‘Pathways to write’ unit, in which, we will be looking at ‘The curious case of the missing mammoth’. Our writing outcome for this unit will be: To write a story based on the structure of ‘The Curious Case of the Missing Mammoth’ with a change of character.
In maths, we continue to follow the White Rose scheme of work. We will completing our addition and subtraction unit in which we will look at using different methods for addition and subtraction and then using related facts. We will then move on to length and height; we will be comparing lengths, starting to measure using objects and starting to measure using a ruler. After this, we will be working on weight and volume; we will be comparing mass and capacity and starting to measure these.
In Music, we will be completing our next ‘Charanga’ unit called ‘Learning to listen’, throughout the unit we be learning to listen and appraise different pieces of music. We will take part in musical activities where we think about the tempo and dynamics of the song and we will think carefully about singing in time with others. We will also be learning how to play the notes C D and E on a glockenspiel. The end point of this song will be to take part in a performance, singing in tune with others and playing the notes of the glockenspiel in time with the music.
In P.E, we will be focusing on throwing and catching, the children will look at rolling and stopping a ball, throwing a ball underarm and overarm, thinking about the best way to catch a ball, performing bounce passes and then they will use all of this learning in team games.
In R.E. we will exploring the question: ‘Why does Easter matter to Christians?’ We will focus on the what happens during Holy Week and how Christians celebrate the festival of Easter.
In computing, we will be completing a Purple Mash unit on presenting ideas and we will also focus on online safety.
In PSHCE, our next Jigsaw unit is ‘Healthy me’; we will be looking at healthy and unhealthy foods, how germs spread, how medicines help us and how they can sometimes be harmful and then we will be looking at road safety.