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 'Dinosaurs and all that Rubbish' by Michael Foreman, children will explore the themes and ideas in the story, such as dreams, desires and how to keep the earth a nice place to call home. The story creates opportunities for a variety of written outcomes including reports, setting descriptions, letters, instructions, retellings, simile sentences about their dreams, and eventually a class pamphlet about how to look after the planet – all to help the man in the story.

During our learning about ‘The Minpins’ by Roald Dahl the children will begin by engaging in the themes of the story by talking about danger and what they are allowed and not allowed to do, imagining gruesome consequences if they don’t follow instructions! They then go on to read and explore ‘The Minpins’ and create character descriptions (for their own monsters and ‘The Minpins’ themselves), retellings of key events, reports about ‘The Minpins’ and eventually writing a new chapter.

Maths

For Maths we follow White Rose Education. This half term, the Year 1 and Year 2 children will be learning about Multiplication and Division and Length and Height.

Science

This unit ‘Plants’ takes children through six lessons where they learn how to: observe and describe how seeds and bulbs grow into mature plants; and find out and describe how plants need water, light and suitable temperature to grow and stay healthy.

History

How was school different in the past?

We will be exploring a timeline of schools in the past as well as looking at similarities and differences.

RE

We will be exploring the questions: In what ways is a church/ mosque/ synagogue important to believers?

PSHE

Jigsaw piece – Healthy Me

Children help to fit together the six pieces of learning about Healthy Me to create ‘The Happy, Healthy Me Recipe Book’

Music

Round and Round!

All the learning in this unit is focused around one song: Round And Round.

D&T

Puppets!

We will explore methods of joining fabric. Design and make a character-based hand puppet using a preferred joining technique, before decorating.

Computing

Programming A Y2: Robot Algorithms

This unit develops learners’ understanding of instructions in sequences and the use of logical reasoning to predict outcomes. Learners will use given commands in different orders to investigate how the order affects the outcome. They will also learn about design in programming. They will develop artwork and test it for use in a program. They will design algorithms and then test those algorithms as programs and debug them.

PE

Our PE days are on a Monday and Friday. On a Monday, we have PE with our coach from Amber Valley Sports Partnership and on a Friday we have PE with our PE coaches from Qualitas Sport. 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.