St John's Church of England Primary School

Year 1/2 Autumn Term 1

Welcome back to school!

We hope you have all enjoyed a restful break and are ready for another busy and exciting half term. We have lots of interesting learning planned and look forward to sharing the children’s progress with you.

In Literacy, we will be exploring the poem Don’t by Michael Rosen. The children will enjoy listening to and performing the poem, identifying its features and creating their own poetry. We will then move on to writing narratives inspired by the book My Super Hero Hamster. Through this work, the children will develop their vocabulary, sentence structure, story planning and confidence in writing for different purposes.

In Numeracy, we will be looking at everything to do with place value. The children will practise recognising the value of digits, representing numbers in different ways and comparing and ordering numbers. We will also be learning lots of number facts through games and songs, helping the children to build fluency and confidence when working with numbers.

In RE, our focus is on who is a Christian and what it is that Christians believe. We will explore Christian beliefs and consider how these beliefs may influence the way Christians live and treat others.

In Science, we will be investigating what makes a healthy diet. This learning will link with our DT work during Healthy Schools Week, when the children will design and make healthy wraps. They will think about ingredients, taste, nutrition and how to make sensible food choices.

Our Computing and PSHE topics will work together to explore our digital wellbeing and how to stay safe online.

Our History lessons will see us learning all about the life of Florence Nightingale. The children will find out about her work, the changes she helped to make in hospitals and why she is remembered today.

Thank you, as always, for your continued support.

The Key Stage 1 Team