Spring 1

Spring 1

Week 2

Computing - Pulse and rhythm - Chrome Music Lab

This week the children explored creating their own rhythm pieces. The children started off using multilink and percussion instruments to compose and play their own pieces. Once they were happy with their pieces the children used Ipads and Chrome music lab to recreate their compositions digitally.

English - Contractions and points of view

This week as part of our writing journey the children have explored features of persuasive writing and writing from a personal view point. The children discussed and shared their points of view with their friends before making their final decision as to how they felt about the wolf's account of events relating to the 3 little pigs. The children also revisited the use of an apostrophe for contractions when writing sentences about the wolf.

Maths - Adding 3 single digit numbers and addition and subtraction problem solving.

This week the children continued their learning journey of addition and subtraction by exploring adding and subtracting tens from two digit numbers and using number facts and double knowledge to help then combine 3 single digit numbers. The children then put their learning into practise by using the polya method to solve a mathematical problem.

DT - Food preparation - Cutting skills

This week the children shared their knowledge on how to stay safe when preparing and cooking food. The children learnt about 3 different cutting techniques when preparing food and using potatoes and carrots were able to safely try out these techniques practically.

Science - Helping the Gingerbread man

This week the children were faced a challenge of using their knowledge of different material properties to help protect the gingerbread man as he crosses the river. The children were given a biscuit and had to work out which materials would best be suited to float on water and keep their biscuit dry.

PE - Games

This week the children continued to develop their ball skills by controlling, trapping and changing directions with a ball using their arms and hands. The children then set up their own games of hand tennis and used hand eye coordination, tension in their hands and arms to send the ball to their opponent and see how many rallys they could make.

Happy 2025!!!

Week 1

English - The 3 little pigs

Our week started with a crime scene. The children looked at the evidence and very quickly made a connection with The 3 little pigs. The children retold the story through story maps before being introduced to our new story - "The true story of the 3 little pigs". The children then compared similarities and differences between the two stories and came up through paired discussions came up with amazing adjectives to describe the two different wolves and then use this to write a detailed character description for Alexander T Wolf.

Maths - Adding and subtracting a single digit with a double digit with and without bridging

In Maths we started the year off by reviewing addition and subtraction with and without bridging. The children found using a tens frame really useful to help them see what was needed to reach the nearest ten and then add or subtract the remainder.

Music and Computing

This half term our computing will focus on how music can be made using digital software. This week both lessons had a space theme with the children listening to Gustav Holts Planets and sharing their likes and dislikes about the different pieces and how they made them feel. In music we explored timbre by exploring different alien voices to create layers of different sounds.

PE - Gymnastic and games

On Wednesday we were really luck to be joined by Joe from Portsmouth Gymnastics who will be working with us this half term to give us his professional expertise to help us develop our gymnastic skills. This half term we will be focussing on creating pathways by travelling in different ways. This week we looked at how we can create tension in our legs to perform a really good tuck position and how from this position we can perform bunny rabbit jumps and forward rolls.

On Friday in games, we focussed on developing our ball control using our hands and feet. The children started off moving their balls with control around a hoop before moving on to weave in and out of the hoops, developing their trapping, pivoting and controlling skills. To finish off the children were given the challenge of sending a ball to their partner through a decreasing goal for them to trap, control and send back.

Science - Insulators

This week in science we continued developing our knowledge of materials and their properties. This week the children explored how insulating works to keep things hot or cold. The children were given ice cubes and a range of different materials to wrap the ice in. The children then had to use their knowledge of the different materials and their properties to hypothesise which material they felt would act as the best insulator and why. Afterwards the children observed their ice cubes to see if they were right.

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