In English, we will be...

• Exploring our core text ‘Lunch at 10 Pomegranate Street’

• Understanding what it means to share and show kindness

• Identifying features of a recipe

• Identifying and using coordinating and subordinating conjunctions.  

• Writing a recipe 

• Exploring the power of three, repetition, emotive language and rhetorical questions.

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 Mirella Bee

• Experimenting with the watercolours, looking at mixing and blending colours

• Exploring line, texture and shading

In D.T, during English we will be...

• 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. 

We will also be learning how to play the Ukulele 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. 

Homework:

• Children practice timetables and reading daily where possible. Parents/Carers can add any achievements, learning or interests to Tapestry.

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 wear their PE kits to school so please ensure children have an appropriate sports kit for the weather. PE day for Jackson is Friday.