Creation and Covenant Branch 1
Children will learn about:
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Creation stories from Genesis.
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All that there is comes from God.
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How can Christians show kindness to themselves, to others and to their planet.
Prophecy and Promise.
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How God showed us his love by sending us his son.
Catholic Social Teaching:
Care of Creation; God created the world as a special gift and we are called to look after it as ‘God’s gardeners’ or stewards.
Solidarity and Peace. God created us as one global family and we help our brothers and sisters around the world.
This term we will be following the White Rose scheme of work for the Autumn term:
• Place Value (within 10)
• Addition and Subtraction (within 10)
• Shape
Mental maths – additional weekly tests to develop children’s listening skills, as well as mental ability for rapid recall and problem solving.
We will be sharing stories from familiar settings in Literacy and will be reading Supertato, Traction Man, What the Ladybird Heard and The Mixed-Up Chameleon.
The phonics screening check will be held in June. The children will be expected to read real and made-up words with the main different phonics spelling patterns. Please use the Monster phonics reading scheme and website to prepare for the phonics screening. Your child can also practise phonics using websites like phonicsplay, CBBC, and topmarks.co.uk
Animals including Humans
In Science we will be learning to name and label the different parts of the human body and find out what the five senses are. We will learn how we use our senses and focus on our sense of hearing and smell for some investigations. In the second half of the term the children will find out about the similarities and differences between different species of animal. The children will learn about the different body parts and start to categorise animals by their bodies, habits and diets.
Working Scientifically:
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Asking simple questions and recognising that they can be answered in different ways
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Observing closely, using simple equipment
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Performing simple tests
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Identifying and classifying
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Using their observations and ideas to suggest answers to questions
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Gathering and recording data to help in answering questions.
Geography
Our geography topic will be Weather and we will learn about different types of weather and how it affects people. The children will learn symbols for different types of weather and ways to measure and record it.
History
In History we will learn all about The Gunpowder Plot; how and why it came about and why we still celebrate the 5th November with bonfires and fireworks.
(Links with Literacy, Art and D&T)
ICT :
We will begin our time reminding and teaching the children how to stay safe on the internet. The children will then learn how to log on to the computers in the ICT suite, develop their mouse and keyboard skills and learn how to save and retrieve documents.
Our Art topic is also Weather and we will be mixing colours for warm weather and cold, wet weather. We will find out about how colour can affect or represent our mood, and will mix different colours to paint clouds, skies, warm and cold scenes.
D&T
Mechanisms: Making a moving storybook
Pupils who are secure will be able to:
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Identify whether a mechanism is a side-to-side slider or an up-and-down slider and determine what movement the mechanism will make.
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Clearly label drawings to show which parts of their design will move and in which direction.
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Make a picture that meets the design criteria, with parts that move purposefully as planned.
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Evaluate the main strengths and weaknesses of their design and suggest alterations.
Sing Up!
The children will be listening to music and learning songs from the Sing Up scheme. They will learn active listening using movement, beat and echo singing, start to understand beat, march, timbre (quality of the music sound) and film music. They will become familiar with pitch (high or low sounds), structure (how music is organised), graphic symbols, and listen to classical music.
Following TenTen Life to the Full
KS1 Module One: Created and Loved by God explores the individual. Rooted in the teaching that we are created by God out of love and for love, it helps children to develop an understanding of the importance of valuing themselves as the basis for personal relationships.