Happy New Year

Owls!

 🦉A new year and lots of exciting new learning!🦉

Read on to find out what we will be up to!

Our theme for this term is,

Terrific Toys!

The question, How have toys changed since our Grandparents were young? will be the focus for our learning in History this term. We will take on the role of historical detectives and learn how we can use a variety of sources to find out how toys have changed over the last 80 years. Expect your Owl to come home full of questions about the toys you and their grandparents played with! We will talk about how to recognise if a toy is old or new, look for similarities between the toys played with today and in the past and introduce the idea of continuity and change. We will sort toys and learn how a timeline can help us order toys from oldest to newest. To start this unit, the children will be taking part in an exciting workshop led by The Rutland County Museum during which they will have the opportunity to handle, play with and discuss toys from the past!

Our work in English will be inspired by the book ‘Hermelin’ by Mini Grey - a detective story with a difference! When precious objects go missing on Offley Street, Hermelin steps in and solves the mysteries! However, when the residents throw a party to thank him, they are in for a big surprise! We will begin by having lots of fun immersing ourselves in the characterisation and language of the story before going on to identify how it has been written. To end our unit, we will plan and write our own version of a detective narrative. Throughout the unit we will consolidate our understanding of how to write a sentence and build on our knowledge of spelling conventions.

In Maths, we will be thinking about the numbers up to 20. We will start by looking at the value of 2-digit numbers and partitioning them into tens and ones before adding and subtracting these numbers.

In Science, we will continue to observe the changes across the four seasons. We will observe and describe the weather associated with winter and how the length of the day increases as we move towards Spring.

In RE, our enquiry question is, Who is Jewish and how do they live?  In this unit, the children will have the opportunity to learn about the Jewish faith and explore how Jewish people celebrate special times and remember God.

In Term 3, our PE days will be on a Tuesday and Friday. Please come to school wearing your PE kit on these days. Don’t forget to make sure that you have warm clothing as, whenever possible, our Tuesday lessons will take place outside.

On Tuesdays, the Owls will be developing skills linked to net and wall games. They will be mastering skills such as throwing and catching and learning simple tactics for attacking and defending through participating in team games.

On Fridays, dance will be the focus of our lessons. We will complete work on two themes that link to work in other areas of the curriculum – ‘The Weather’ and ‘Toys’. Through these themes, we will explore ways of travelling, moving and balancing as well as learning to count to music, copy and repeat actions and link them together to create short dance phrases.

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