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

This half term we will be sharing the stories ‘Yeti and the Bird’ by Nadia Shireen and ‘Pig the Pug’ by Aaron Blabey. The children will explore their own version narratives about unlikely friendships, produce a list of rules, letters, postcards, character descriptions and how to’ guides character comparisons, fact sheets, and shared poetry.

Maths

For maths we follow White Rose Education. This term we will looking at the following units:

• Money
• Fractions
• Time

Science

Animals, including humans - Growth

This unit ‘Animals, including humans - Growth’ takes children through six lessons where they learn how to notice that animals, including humans, have offspring which grow into adults. They find out about and describe the basic needs of animals, including humans, for survival (water, food and air) and finally they learn how to describe the importance for humans of exercise, eating the right amounts of different types of food, and hygiene.

History

How have toys changed?

Children will use images of real toys to support them in making comparisons between old and new toys and a timeline to help them sequence the invention of some important toys. Key questions are also included to help the pupils consider similarities and differences between toys.

RE

What does it mean to belong?

Children will explore what belonging means and what it means to belong to a school, group and religious community.

PSHE

Relationships

Children will help me fit together the six pieces of learning about Relationships to create ‘Our Relationship Fiesta’ focusing on:

1. Families
2. Making friends
3. Greetings
4. People who can help us
5. Being my own best friend
6. Celebrating my special relationships

Music

Your Imagination!

This is a song about using your imagination.

Art

Painting and mixed media: Colour splash

In this unit children learn about primary and secondary colours, colour mixing techniques, and applying these skills in painting and printing. The lessons encourage exploration and confidence in colour use, culminating in creating a painted plate in the style of an artist. This unit enhances pupils' understanding of colours and their applications in art.

Computing

Programming B Y1: Programming animations (CS)

This unit introduces learners 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.