Albury Year 1/2 class page

Class Teachers - Mrs Russell & Mrs Macleod

Support Staff - Mrs Kirby

Autumn Term Curriculum

• English
  English

   Fiction - Familiar Settings: Family Stories 

  

  We will be reading Jill Murphy's Five Minutes' Peace, Mo Willems' Knuffle Bunny and Group Reader Boris and Sid Make a Mess, inspiring children to write a familiar settings story.

  Non Fiction - Instructions: Cooking

  

  We will be exploring recipes, using commas for lists and investigating sentence types. We will be creating new recipes for a class cookbook!

   

  Poetry - Rhyming and patterns: Poems with repeating patterns and rhymes

  

  We will be looking at some traditional and contemporary rhymes. Pattern and rhyme help children memorise and write poetry. It also helps to develop comprehension skills.

    

  Our Year 1/2 children learn the English alphabetic code: first they learn one way to read the 40+ sounds and blend these sounds into words, then learn to read the same sounds with alternative graphemes. Lively phonic books are closely matched to their increasing knowledge of phonics and 'tricky' words and, as they re-read the stories, their fluency increases. Along with a thought-provoking introduction, prompts for thinking out loud and discussion, children are helped to read with a storyteller's voice.

• Maths
  Maths

  Maths is an adventure for children (and adults) to immerse themselves in, get creative with, make mistakes, and conquer! Power Maths is a whole-class mastery programme designed to spark curiosity and excitement and help nurture confidence in maths. Power Maths rejects the notion that some people simply 'can't do' maths.  Instead, it develops growth mindsets and encourages hard work, practice and a willingness to see mistakes as learning tools.

  What Year 1 will be learning ...

  

  What Year 2 will be learning...

  
  

• Science
  Science

  In Science, we will be looking at "People and their Pets". We shall observe creatures in the school grounds; photograph them and make sketches. Collect woodlice and establish colonies in the classroom based on what children know about their habitats. Plan an investigation to test what sort of paper will be best for the job of mopping up a puppy's accident . Talk about and design a good pet and observe different pets in the classroom.

  

• History
  History

  In History, we are looking at Great Inventions, with a focus on transport. We will be learning about the impact Orville and Wilbur Wright had on the history of aviation and then we will focus on the Rainhill Trials of Stephenson's Rocket.

  

• Geography
  Geography

  In Geography, we will be focusing on "My School Grounds". In this unit, the children will develop fieldwork and observation skills to study the geography of their school grounds, devise simple maps and symbols and use aerial photographs and plan perspectives to identify human and physical features.

  

• RE
  RE

  In RE this term, we will be looking at Christianity and the story of the Creation. Who made the World? How do Christians believe the World was made? The children will retell in words or pictures the story of creation from Genesis 1:1 - 1:31.2.

  Pupils will also find out how people with different religious beliefs celebrate the fruitfulness of the earth (Harvest Festival). 

  

   

• PSHE
  PSHE

  We will continue to follow the 1 Decision scheme, and Deedee will help the children explore relationships this term, including Bullying, Friendship and Body Language.

  

• Music
  Music

  We are looking forward to getting back to singing and will be following the Charanga music scheme and learning 'Hey You' by Joanna Mangona and Pete Readman. 'Hey You!' is written in an Old-School Hip Hop style for children to learn about the differences between pulse, rhythm and pitch and to learn how to rap and enjoy it in its original form.

  As well as learning to sing, play, improvise and compose with this song, children will listen and appraise other Old-School Hip Hop tunes.

  
  

• MFL
  MFL

  In Spanish we will be learning about animals. Children will learn the names of different animals and begin to understand there is a difference for singular and plural. They will also begin to use the verb 'soy' (I am).
  

  

• Computing
  Computing

  We will be focusing on online safety during the first half term. Pupils will: learn how to log in safely; to learn how to find saved work in the Online Work area and find teacher comments; to learn how to search Purple Mash to find resources; to become familiar with the icons and types of resources available in the Topics section; to start to add pictures and text to work; to explore the Tools and Games section of Purple Mash; to learn how to open, save and print and to understand the importance of logging out.

  

• Art & Design
  Art & Design

  With our specialist art teacher Mrs Mackervoy, the children will develop a wide range of art and design techniques using colour, pattern, texture, line, shape, space and form.

  

• PE
  PE

   In PE this term, the children will be playing cricket, rounders and taking part in athletics.

  

  Timetable

Highlights of the term

Home learning expectations

Reading

Each week, every pupil is expected to read at least 4 times and have this recorded in their reading record, with 2 of them reading aloud to an adult.

School Jam

Each week, every pupil will be assigned an activity to complete on School Jam, which links to what they have been learning about in Maths. It is a fun way in which the children can "cement" their new learning.

Times Tables Rockstars

Pupils should be logging into TT Rockstars for at least 10 mins, 3 times a week. Please note the expectations  for pupils to be fluent by the end of the year are:

Year 1 : 2s, 5s and 10s 

Year 2 : 2s, 5s and 10s (including division facts)

Simply click on the picture below to login.

Home Learning Journal

Pupils will bring their Learning Journals home every Friday with a letter inside that tells them what their week's homework is. Pease could you sign it before returning their books back to school each Wednesday.