In Communication, Language and  Literacy, we have been using a range of strategies to learn our story and retell it in different contexts. We have learnt to orally retell the story ‘Zog’ using the Pie Corbett ‘Talk for Writing’. We have also acted out and recreated a class Zog book. The students have enjoyed making story maps to help them remember the story and think of different endings. Using our understanding of nouns, verbs and adjectives, we have learnt to write sentences related to mythical creatures.

In Mathematics we have been learning to count in 2s, 5s, 10s, using practical and pictorial resources. For example 2 pairs of socks, shoes, wheels. 5s using beads, bundles of straws and 10s using ten frames, numicons and building blocks. We have been using the language of multiplication. ‘There are ___ altogether’, ‘There are 6 equal groups of 2 socks. There are 12 socks altogether’. In snack we use real coins to buy our snacks encouraging children to recognise different coins and learning to utilise them in real life. For example if we want a biscuit we pay the correct amount using our coins.  

In PSHE we have been learning about our different emotions and feelings.  We have taken part in different experiments to try and illustrate different feelings. For example we used a coke bottle and mentos mints to demonstrate how our bodies react when we are feeling angry and added books to a backpack to iIllustrate if you keep all your worries in, it makes it heavier to carry, so instead we should share them. We learnt about the ‘Zones of Regulation’ and what strategies we could use to help us get back into the ‘green zone’.

In Science we have been learning about living and nonliving. We are also learning to use scientific vocabulary during learning. Our favourite part was watching the chicks hatch, holding them and learning about the hens life cycle.

In Art and Design we have been learning to use different mediums to create our  own mythical creature.  We  had  to plan and design our creature first and then use our plan to create our mythical creature.  We have also worked on using tools such as paint brushes, glue sticks and different textured fabrics to create our amazing creatures.

In PE our focus this term has been Gymnastics.  We have been exploring and practising balancing on one leg, balance on the other leg, balance on all fours, jumping in a variety of ways and landing with increasing control and balance, whilst listening to stop and start commands. In dance we have been learning a dance routine, using gymnastic equipment i.e ribbons and scarves. We are very proud of all our children. Some children performed this at the The Co-op Academies Trust Recognition Awards evening.   

We have also been working on our fine motor skills in practising our handwriting every morning as part of our morning work.