In RE this term, we will focus on Judaism and learn about which people practice it. We will also learn about what the Jewish people believe about God and we will also identify who Moses is and why he is important for the Jewish people. Later we will learn about why Joseph is important to the Jewish people and explore the place of worship of the Jews. Finally, we will learn about what the Purim festival is and how and why it is celebrated by the Jews.

In phonics, we will continue with our learning of the phonemes and graphemes to help the children to segment words to read. It is important that children come to school on time to seize the opportunity of the phonics sessions that we teach daily. Parents whose children who go to the phonics masterclass should kindly make it a point to arrive on time rather than later to fully take advantage of the sessions to boast their reading and writing. The reading book the children bring  home reflects what they are learning in phonics and we expect them to read the book daily to help practice and use their phonics.

In art, we will explore the art work of Stephen Wright and discuss the elements of art in his pieces of artwork. We will create an observational drawing of the crown and then design it using mixed media by discussing the image of the crown in terms of colour and texture to create a mixed media mosaic. We will evaluate the outcome of our design and the mosaic crown and discuss how we could make it better next time.

This half term in English, we will be focusing on a new core text, 'The King Who Banned the Dark'. A Prince who was terribly scared of the dark when he was younger decided to do something about the dark when he becomes a King and he did. He irresponsibly and selfishly banned dark, ignoring the feelings and the needs of his subjects. It took a revolt by his subjects who turned off the artificial sun to realise the importance of the dark. We will explore the story line and the rich vocabulary used in the text and generate vocabulary and noun phrases to describe the King's appearance and personality, his and goals. We will also explore a second core text, 'The paper bag Princess'. This text focuses on things can go wrong when we pre-empty situations and events.

In maths, we will be revisiting our knowledge of place value within 10 to information learning about place value within 20. We will be using different manipulatives to identify numbers within 20, match numbers to the correct amount of objects. We will learn how make two digit numbers within 20 and focus on addition and subtraction within 20. Again, we will draw on our knowledge from the previous two terms to add and subtract. There will be a lot of practical activities to help the children understand and practice the concept of addition and subtraction within 20. Once their knowledge, understanding and application of addition and subtraction within 20 is secured, we explore making and adding numbers to 50.

In PE this term, the children will be taught gymnastic skills about how to develop skills and dynamism a line, how to balance statically, develop cognitive skills. The children also practice sending and receiving objects, throwing and catching whilst on the move, sending and receiving a ball with a to a partner while attached to each other. They will practice sending and receiving a rolling ball with a partner and finally, practice sending and receiving a ball with a partner.

In science, we will focus briefly on seasons and the associated weather conditions in the UK. We will compare the seasons in the UK with the seasons and the weather conditions in the UK, and discuss the differences and similarities. We will focus on the winter season and learn about activities that we can do, clothes we need to wear to keep us warm and celebrations in the winter season. We will also explore why we have shorter daylight hours and longer night time hours in the winter months. We will move onto to living and non-living things, including humans, and then group these by their characteristics. We will also learn what makes plants, animals and humans living things  and all other things non-living. We will be looking at the similarities and differences in animals and then classify animals based on their diet. 

Computing this term will focus on internet safety and label and match objects. They will learn how to group and count objects on a computer device. They will learn how to describe objects seen on a computer device and make different groups objects. Finally, they will learn how to compare groups of objects using a computer device.

In PSHE, the children will learn the importance of rules and the understand the need of babies and young children. The children will begin to recognise ways in which we are both the same as and different from other people. They will learn to understand a range of groups that people belong to.

This half term, the children have the privilege to receive music lessons from a professional music teacher. They will be learning about beats, rhythm, tones, names of different instruments and how they can use them to make melodious music. The children will learn how to compose a piece of music to enjoy.

• A local trip would be booked to help the children with their writing on recount. Date and time would announced later.

• P E on Wednesday and Friday.

• Reading books are changed every Tuesday and Thursday. 

• Children need to bring reading book to school everyday to be read with.

• Morning reading with your child every Friday.

In history this term, we will be learning about leadership and authority and relate this to our school community, the immediate community and the country as a whole. We will first focus on the leaders in our lives and extend it to the community. We will identify and learn about the leaders in the country and focus on the roles of the monarch. We will also learn how to become a monarch and sequence a timeline of events of King Charles III. To understand what makes a good leader, we will be interviewing our head teacher to find more about the topic, 'leadership, qualities, rolea and responsibilities'.