Kingfisher, Term 1 2011 ‘The Lighthouse Keeper’s Lunch’

1. Communication, Language and Literacy • We will be improving our speaking and listening skills through: • Talk partners and discussion groups • Philosophy for Children (P4C) and reporting. • We will be developing our writing skills through looking at different types of recount, character sketches and explanation texts. • We will be using the internet as a research tool. Our main focus will be using Textease 2000, a word processing programme . The children will be given weekly tutorials to learn new skills about presentation and page layout. • MFL • We will learning how to count to 10 and our colours in French. • Creativity • We will be developing creativity in all aspects of our curriculum. The focus in art is colour and line combined to create seascapes, based on the work of Matisse. We are very fortunate to have these lessons taught by our Art expert, Liz Bullock. • In DT we will be designing and making a healthy lunch box for Mr Grindling, our focus will be on making healthy low fat sandwiches using green foods only. • Personal, Social and Emotional development • Our SEAL topic for this term is ‘ New beginnings. We will be focusing on the following skills: • Giving and accepting compliments • Valuing my class mates • Understanding my rights and responsibilities in the class • Starting a new challenge • Managing my own feelings when I am frustrated • In RE, we will be focusing on the significance of the Bible for Christians . We will also be investigating how the stories in the Old and New testaments influence how Christians live their lives. • Year 2 will be taking part in a fire safety talk to help develop their awareness of the hazards of fire and prevention ideas. • Knowledge and understanding of the world • This term our Science topic is ‘Forces’. We will be developing our use of the following scientific skills: • observational drawing • Prediction • Scientific explanation • Fair testing • Scientific language • Explanations using scientific knowledge Physical Development Our learning focus for this term will be practising, performing and evaluating our work in Gymnastics and multi-skills. The children will be developing their skills of striking and fielding and catching the ball through multi-skills games. Year 2 will be involved in a cluster multi-skills festival while Year 3 will be taking part in Tag Rugby training and a festival at St Laurence. Year 3 will be starting their swimming programme. An audit letter will follow to determine your child’s learning needs. Kingfisher, Term 1 2011‘The Lighthouse Keeper’s Lunch’ Learning We will be developing our discussion skills with a focus on how we can become better learners. We will be focusing on which learning muscles we use in various learning situations. We will be continuing to develop our curiosity and questioning skills through philosophy and science. The children will be concentrating on improving their collaborative skills with each other and becoming more independent learners. Mathematical development We will be developing our learning through the following units: Place value, partitioning of numbers to HTU, informal methods of addition, classifying 2-d shapes and arrays to solve simple multiplication problems. All the above units will include associated word problems. We will also be introducing weekly times tables tests