Religious Education Character Curriculum English Our first book this half term is called ‘What do you do with a tail like this?’ For this non-fiction text we will be exploring the use of language and how we can use adjectives to our own writing as well as starting sentences in different ways. At the end of the journey we will create our own book answering the question, ‘What do you do with shoes like these?’ Our second book is ‘What I Like’. This book is filled with many amazing poems that we will explore and think about how they make us feel. We will get a chance to listen and explore similarities, differences, likes and dislikes before writing our own senses poem based around one of our favourite places. Religious Education Our big question this half term is “Who is Jesus?” We will be looking at the life of Jesus and how he helped others. Maths This half term starts with us consolidating addition and subtraction and using new strategies to add numbers accurately up to 20. We will be exploring patterns with number bonds to 20 as well having many problem solving and reasoning opportunities to explain our mathematical understanding. We then move onto place value to 50. This will include comparing, ordering and writing numbers to 50 as well as exploring multiples of 2, 5 and 10. Character Curriculum This half term we will be exploring the virtues of cleanliness and orderliness; fairness and sharing with others; friendliness and how to make a new friend. Year 1 Spring Term 1 Topic: Celebrate Britain Big Question: What makes Britain ‘Great’? Wow Start: Where are we? (using a 3D map to locate the school) Fantastic finish: The Great British Afternoon Tea Party (Showcase – Parent/Carers Invited) Daily Mile The aim of The Daily Mile is to improve the physical, social, emotional and mental health and wellbeing of our children. Children are physically active (run, jog or walk) for 15 mins a day. Topic This half term we will be exploring the United Kingdom. We will be looking at the 4 different countries that make up the United Kingdom and learning their capital cities. We will also be looking at the landscape and key geographic features as well as comparing and contrasting the countryside and towns/cities. STEM For Computing we will be looking at increasing our independence with turning the computers on and off as well as using Purple mash to create pictograms. In Science we will be looking at seasonal changes and how this affects the daylight hours in the UK. P.E Our focus on PE this half term is Gymnastics, where we will be looking at balances and using the wall bars to explore how we can do this in different ways. In Real PE we will developing our cognitive skills through ordering instructions and thinking about why someone is performing well.