Welcome to Adventurers 2024 - 2025

We are a mixed-age class of Year 1 and Year 2 children. 

Our class teacher is Miss Greveson.

Miss Nash also supports us in our learning each day.

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English

In English we will be reading the story of 'Stanley’s Stick' by John Hegley and Neal Layton and ‘A Walk in London’ by Salvatore Rubbino.

In our learning about ‘Stanley’s Stick’ Children will explore and write about the different ways that Stanley uses his stick and to make suggestions for how he can use his stick at the seaside. Children connect with the main character by writing a thought bubble and a postcard in role, before then going on to then plan and write their own version of the story with their own choice of object.

During our learning about ‘A Walk in London’ children will write instructions about how to best prepare for going on a long walk. After children use the book to write about a pretend day in London, they plan a walk around the landmarks of their local area. They also can research facts and record these about the landmarks they visit. These outcomes build towards them writing their own A Walk in… guide or brochure for their local area to persuade people to come and visit. 

Maths

For Maths we follow White Rose Education. This half term, the Year 1 and Year 2 children will be learning about fractions, time, mass, capacity and temperature, and position and direction. 

Tiny will always be on hand to help the class with their maths learning! 

Science

This unit ‘Living Things and their habitats – Habitats from around the world’ children explore and compare the differences between things that are living, dead, and things that have never been alive; they learn how to identify that most living things live in habitats to which they are suited and describe how different habitats provide for the basic needs of different kinds of animals and plants, and how they depend on each other. They learn how to identify and name a variety of plants and animals in their habitats, including microhabitats and finally they learn how to describe how animals obtain their food from plants and other animals, using the idea of a simple food chain, and identify and name different sources of food.

Geography

What can you see at the coast?

Children will explore What human features would you see on the coast and What physical features would you see on the coast?

RE

We will be exploring the questions: How do we show that we care for others?

PSHE

Jigsaw piece – Changing Me

Children help me fit together the six pieces of learning about Changing Me to create the Tree of Change display.

Music

Reflect, Rewind!

Children will work through learning the song and the listen and appraise element of the charanga program. This incorporates the interrelated dimensions of music, music appreciation and development of musical vocabulary.

D&T

Constructing a Windmill

Children will make a windmill to meet design criteria.

Computing

Programming animations

Children will be introduced to on-screen programming through ScratchJr. Learners will explore the way a project looks by investigating sprites and backgrounds. They will use programming blocks to use, modify, and create programs. Learners will also be introduced to the early stages of program design through the introduction of algorithms.

PE

Our PE days will be on a Monday and Tuesday. One session will be with our coach from Amber Valley Sports Partnership and the other session will be from Yoga Bugs. Children will need to come into school in their PE kit on their PE days.

Home learning

For phonics, we follow the Little Wandle Letters and Sounds programme. The children take home a reading book each week that closely links with their phonics stage. We encourage them to read this as much as possible over the week before returning it to school. You can also take a look at the Little Wandle Letters and Sounds Resources for Parents page: For parents | Letters and Sounds (littlewandlelettersandsounds.org.uk) 

In addition to this, children take home a book which they choose from our school library to read for pleasure with their parents/carers. 

For maths, we encourage the children to log on to Numbots each night and practise just a few questions.

You can also use the White Rose One-Minute Maths which is a great resource when time is limited. 

https://whiteroseeducation.com/1-minute-maths

Our Long Term Plan for 2024 - 2025

Below is the long term plan which outlines all of our units for the year.