Marvellous machines

PSHE

This half term we will be learning about physical health and wellbeing. We will also be talking about ‘what keeps me healthy’ and how these impact our mental health and wellbeing. Our online safety lessons will be focussed on remembering how to stay safe online and what to do to ensure that this can happen. We will continue to work on our own individual behaviour goals by practising our social, emotional, self regulation, empathy and motivation skills. 

English 

In English we will be practising our independent sentence writing around the theme of marvellous machines. We will be reading ‘Mrs Armitage on wheels’ using our predicting skills and learning how to create an alternative ending. We will learn about poetry by reading and writing riddles and for our non-fiction learning we will write an information leaflet about our favourite machine. Every day pupils will read to an adult, this will be done 1:1 or as a guided group session. Phonics will also be taught daily so that pupils have the opportunity to learn how to read and write sounds to improve their knowledge and skills. 

Maths

In maths this half term we will revisit  place value to ensure that knowledge is secure, from this we will solve addition and subtraction problems and use inverse to check our answers. We will also learn about shape, pupils will learn the names of 2D and 3D shapes and identify some of their properties. During our maths starters we will continue to practice our mental maths skills. We will practice odd and even numbers, times tables, number bonds, telling the time and money to name a few. 

Science 

In science this half term we will be learning about seasonality. We will learn about the different seasons and how these changes affect the world around us. Pupils will observe seasonal change and be able to answer and ask questions about these changes. 

History 

In this half term our topic focus is history. We will be learning about marvellous machines and how they have changed and developed over time. Pupils will learn about different decades and be able to put some of these dates on a timeline. We will talk about when these changes occurred and relate this to changes that have happened in their living memories as well as those for older people around them.

R.E

In R.E we will also be starting the new RSE framework and answering the questions - How are the stories of Holy week important to Christians?

Alongside all of this brilliant learning we will also be developing our skills through art, DT, PE, food technology, music and computing. For more information please see the long-term plan (LTP) and Twitter/ X for daily updates.