Foundation Subjects
Other areas of the curriculum:
History - Toys in the past
During our History topic this half term, the children will be learning about how Toys have changed over the years. We will have lots of discussions using the terms ‘In the past’, ‘long ago’. We will initially look at Victorian toys and how over the years toys have developed and changed. As I have previously asked, we are hoping to create our own Y1 Toys museum and we are hoping that we may have visits from some Parents and Grandparents to talk to us about toys they used to play with compared to our toys today.
RE
In RE we are focusing on Judaism. The children will learn all about what Promises are and how Noah and Abraham put their trust into God and followed what he asked of them. The children will also learn about the Sukkot and how Jewish people celebrate it.
PSHE
We start the half term with our ‘No Outsiders’ scheme and learning about how we can ‘join in’ this will help with encouraging the children to play with each other and joining in conversations with each other. We will then focus on our strengths, we all have different strengths and how we can use these to help others and in the future we use our strengths to apply for jobs.
PE
Gilcrest sports will teach the children on a Wednesday afternoon. This half term, the children will focus on Indoor Athletics and Dodgeball.
Computing
As the children have now developed and built upon their basic computer skills, this half term we will begin our Programming topic. We will use the Scratch programming app in order to create and change the size of characters and create a simple set of instructions.
Art
In Art the children will be exploring the primary colours and will use these to make secondary colours. They will explore different shades of colours and how these can be made. The children will experiment different ways of making marks with paint including stamping and using brushes of different thicknesses. They will use their learnt skills to create a plate in the style of Clarice Cliff.
Music
During the ‘Learning to Listen’ unit this half term, our learning will be based around the social question ‘How Does Music Help Us to Understand Our Neighbours?’. The Social Question evolves as the children move through the scheme while encouraging them to be responsible and kind. The children will continue to find the pulse and will learn to listen to different rhymes and clap them back. We will also be adding instruments to complete our performance of our focus song.