Reading
This half term the children will have their phonics screening where we will assess each child on their phonetical knowledge using real and alien words. From this we will continue to plug any gaps the children have as well as teaching them spelling alternatives. 

We will be using these three different texts to drive our end of day reading sessions next half term:

• My Granny went to the market by Stella Blackstone.
• Where the wild things are by Maurice Sendak.
• Surprising sharks by Nicola Davies.

We will become very familiar with these books, read them regularly, ask many questions about the stories and retell them. 

Writing
This half term we will continue to use Talk for Writing to support the children’s writing. We will focus on independence and learning the skills of how to edit work. 

For our fiction text, we will be using The Black Hat, the children will be learning this story to support our understanding of story creation. For our non-fiction text, we will be writing instructions. 

Number – Place value to 100
The children will start the half term by investigating numbers to 100. They will learn to count forwards and backwards within 100 and understand how each number is made up of tens and ones. They will then use this knowledge to compare and order numbers and be able to find one more and one less.

Measurement – Money
The children will learn to recognise the different coins and notes. They will then use their knowledge of counting and the 2, 5 and 10 times tables to count and add different coins.

Measurement – Time
The children will learn the days of the weeks and months of the year. They will understand and use the terminology, ‘before, after,’ and ‘yesterday, today and tomorrow,’ to describe an order of events. They will learn to tell the time to o’clock and half past on an analogue clock.

Indoor - Dance

Pupils will explore travelling actions, movement skills and balancing. They will understand why it is important to count to music and use this in their dances. Pupils will copy and repeat actions linking them together to make short dance phrases. Pupils will work individually and with a partner to create ideas in relation to the theme. Pupils will be given the opportunity to perform and also to provide feedback, beginning to use dance terminology to do so.

Outdoor – Athletics

In this unit pupils will develop skills required in athletic activities such as running at different speeds, changing direction, jumping and throwing. In all athletic based activities, pupils will engage in performing skills and measuring performance, competing to improve on their own score and against others. They are given opportunities to work collaboratively as well as independently.