Respect Kindness Honesty Perseverance Collaboration Responsibility
In English, we will be...
Exploring our core text ‘Island Born’
Understanding what it means to be an immigrant who came over so young, she has no memories of the land that she left behind
Identifying features of a setting description
Identifying and using coordinating and subordinating conjunctions.
Writing a non chronological report
Identifying how to create emotions within the reader.
In Geography, we will be...
Locating continents and countries around the world
Exploring seasonal and daily weather patterns of the United Kingdom with a different country
Exploring how location affects the weather
Making comparisons of the United Kingdom with a different country
Researching the Dominican Republic
Our Maths, we will be split into two parts...
Year 2
Exploring numbers bonds to 10 and 20
Partitioning and comparing numbers to 10
Writing numbers to 100
Identifying the value of each digit in a number
Estimating numbers on a number line
Rounding to the nearest 10, 100
Identifying and counting in 10s
Adding and Subtracting ones and tens from a two digit number.
Year 3
Exploring numbers bonds to 10 and 20
Partitioning and comparing numbers to 100
Identifying the value of each digit in a number
Estimating numbers on a number line
Rounding to the nearest 10, 100, 100
Identifying and counting in 10s
Adding and Subtracting ones and tens from a two digit number
In Science, we will be...
Exploring Habitats
Classifying and compare things that are living, dead or never alive
Identifying living and non-living things in a habitat.
To identify and describe a microhabitat.
To research different habitats and their features
We are also lucky enough to have a workshop come in to support with our learning on Habitats. (Information letter to follow)
In Art, we will be...
Creating a mood board on the works of Leo Espinosa
Experimenting with the colours and tones; using chalk pastels, oil pastels and watercolours.
Creating layers and depth to our art using block printing.
In D.T, we will be...
Planning and To plan a nutritious salsa dip
Measuring, cutting and assembling our dip
Assessing our work
In Music, we will be...
Exploring Simple Patterns using songs such as Music is my soul, Hey Friends and Hello.
The Year 3's will also be learning how to play the Recorder on a Wednesday as this is part of the Year 3 curriculum.
In Reading, we will be looking at the texts...
Linked to our Phonics learning from last year.
We will be focusing on the following reading skills each week and answering questions surrounding our book...
Inferencing
Evaluating
Making Connections
Asking Questions
Predicting
Summarising
Clarifying
In RE, we will be...
Focusing on belonging
Exploring the different religions in our community.
Exploring the ways that different religions show that they belong
In R.S.H.E, we will be...
Exploring and identifying the different types of relationships.
Identifying who we can talk to if we need support and advice.
Recognising gender stereotypes.
Exploring the difference careers and jobs in our world.
Home Learning
At Delce Academy we encourage our children to:
Read every evening and record this in their reading record
Learn their spellings for the week
Practice their Times Tables daily using TTRS or the worksheet provided
There will also be 6 home learning activities set for the term. These activity ideas are optional but we advise your encouragement as it will further support your child in continuing their love of learning outside of the classroom. Your child can complete as many of the activities as they would like and bring their work in to share with their class.
Timetable Rockstars and Number Bots
This is available for the children to play on to practise their timetables and number bots using Number bots
P.E:
Children will change at school so please ensure children have an appropriate sports kit for the weather. PE days for individual classes will be sent home via Arbor.
In English, we will be...
Exploring our core text ‘Rainbow Fish’
Understanding what it means to share and show kindness
Identifying features of a setting description
Identifying and using coordinating and subordinating conjunctions.
Writing a persuasive letter
Identifying how to create emotions within the reader.
In Geography, we will be...
Locating Australia and the United Kingdom
Exploring how Australia contains six states - New South Wales, Victoria, Queensland, Western Australia, South Australia and Tasmania.
Understanding that Australia is situated in the southern hemisphere and the UK is situated in the Northern Hemisphere.
Making links to last term's topic and exploring Australia seven climate's regions and the UK has a temperate climate.
Exploring Aboriginal and indigenous Australians and how they lived on the continent now known as Australia for more than 50,000 years
Indigenous Australians used weapons like boomerangs to hunt animals for food.
Our Maths, we will be split into two parts...
Year 2
Continuing adding and Subtracting ones and tens from a two digit number.
Explore shapes, looking at counting vertices and sides of 2D shapes and edges, vertices and faces of 3D shapes.
Exploring lines of symmetry
Year 3
Continuing to look at adding and Subtracting ones and tens from a two digit number
Exploring Angles
Looking at horizontal and vertical lines along with parallel and perpendicular
Exploring 3D shapes
In Science, we will be exploring Humans including Animals through ...
Identify and describe different animal groups Identifying familiar animals.
Explaining how living things grow and change
Explaining the characteristics of living things.
Describing and evaluating the importance for humans of a balanced diet
Finally identifying how exercise effects the body
In Art, we will be...
Creating a mood board on the works of Marcus Pfister
Experimenting with the watercolours, looking at mixing and blending colours
Exploring line, texture and shading
In Music, we will be...
Exploring Simple Patterns using songs such as Music is my soul, Hey Friends and Hello.
The Year 3's will also be learning how to play the Recorder on a Wednesday as this is part of the Year 3 curriculum.
In Reading, we will be looking at the texts...
The Rainbow Fish
Drawn together
The proudest blue
We will be focusing on the following reading skills each week and answering questions surrounding our book...
Inference
Making Connections
Predicting
Retrieval
In RE, we will be...
Focusing on Christianity
Identifying why Sunday is a special day for Christians.
Exploring places where Christians worship.
Exploring Churches and its features through a trip to our local church
In R.S.H.E, we will be...
Exploring health and wellbeing
To know that food and drinks with lots of sugar are bad for our teeth.
To understand the importance of exercise to stay healthy.
To understand the balance of foods we need to keep healthy.
To know that breathing techniques can be a useful strategy to relax.
To know that we can feel more than one emotion at a time.
To know that a growth mindset means being positive about challenges and finding ways to overcome them.
Home Learning
At Delce Academy we encourage our children to:
Read every evening and record this in their reading record
Learn their spellings for the week
Practice their Times Tables daily using TTRS or the worksheet provided
There will also be 6 home learning activities set for the term. These activity ideas are optional but we advise your encouragement as it will further support your child in continuing their love of learning outside of the classroom. Your child can complete as many of the activities as they would like and bring their work in to share with their class.
Timetable Rockstars and Number Bots
This is available for the children to play on to practise their timetables and number bots using Number bots
P.E:
Children will change at school so please ensure children have an appropriate sports kit for the weather. PE days for individual classes will be sent home via Arbor.