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PSHE

Our PSHE lessons this half term will cover physical health and well-being. We will think about making healthy choices about food and drink, and learn about the importance of physical exercise. We will look at different branding on food packaging, and try to unpick how this influences our choices.  We will then explore online safety and discuss what information should be kept private and can be shared online. Towards the end of the half term, we will complete a sequence of lessons around what we feel proud of, and share our strengths and weaknesses with our friends. We will learn about different emotions, worry in particular, and discuss different strategies to help us when we feel worried.

English

This half term we will be reading the text, Field Trip to the Moon by Jeanne Willis. We will explore the story, retell parts orally, and rewrite the story as our own three-part story. We will also use this text to explore the features of persuasive writing, and write a persuasive letter. Pupils will also read the non- fiction text, Neil Armstrong and the Moon Landings by Izzi Howell, and use this to support their understanding of non-chronological reports. We will use a range of reliable sources to plan and write our own non-chronological reports. We will also develop our reading and performance skills, when we explore performance poetry. Finally, Pupils will listen to a selection of poems and use them as inspiration for their own performances. Throughout the half term, we will develop our writing skills with daily opportunities to strengthen our fine and gross motor skills. 

Maths

In Maths this half term, we will consolidate our place value knowledge, working with numbers to 50, and then 100. Pupils will have lots of hands-on opportunities to partition, compare and order amounts, using a range of resources. Pupils will use this knowledge to learn about multiplication and division, and practise how to make arrays and equal groups to represent equal groups. Pupils will spend time consolidating their knowledge of 2D and 3D shapes, focusing on embedding their mathematical vocabulary when describing the properties of shapes. To extend this topic, we will explore position and direction, and learn how to describe movement and turns.

Science

In Science, our topic for this half term is ‘Plants’, where we will be planting seeds, and investigating how to look after seedlings. We will conduct experiments to investigate what conditions are needed for plants to grow, and then learn to care for our own plants. Pupils will learn about plant life cycles and learn about the process of pollination. Throughout the half term, we endeavour to make observations, develop our scientific vocabulary, and record our findings as diagrams and drawings. 

History 

Our focus this half term in History is to learn about a significant person, Neil Armstrong. Linking to our texts in English, we will explore who Neil Armstrong wass and why he is famous. Pupils will use a range of primary and secondary sources to find out information about him, and use this to create a fact file and a diary event. Pupils will watch videos and other real-life recordings of the landing on the moon, and other visits into space. Finally, pupils will develop their chronological understanding by sequencing events and using timelines. 

RE

This half term we will be exploring what it means to belong to a community of beliefs. Pupils will learn about various religious buildings, explore what they might see there and what people might do when they go there. Pupils will begin to understand that there are similarities and differences between places of worship, within and between faith communities.  They will learn that places of worship are sacred places for the people who go there. 

Alongside all of this brilliant learning, we will also be developing our skills through Art, DT, PE, Music, Food Technology and Computing. For more information please see the long-term plan.