YEAR RECEPTION (YR) Summer Term

 Flower Power and Animal Magic

YR - Personal Social and Emotional Development

• Look after our environment.
• Beginning to understand our emotions.
• Be good friends.
• Be healthy.
• Be happy about our move into Year 1

YR - Communications, Language and Literacy

• Main texts – The Sunflower, The Sunflower House, The Very Hungry Caterpillar, Cow.
• Ask questions about why things happen and give explanations, listen attentively to others views.
• Know and show an understanding that information can be found from a variety of different sources.
• Sequence and write instructions.
• Write super sentences using interesting words and punctuation.
• Re-tell a simple story by choosing to act it out, freeze frame the main events, use puppets and storyboards.
• Ongoing – Reading, writing, phonics, word recognition, spelling, handwriting, sentence construction, punctuation.

 YR - Mathmatical Development

• Double numbers.
• Name and describe 2D and 3D shapes.
• Make symmetrical patterns.
• To find all ways to make 5 using 2 numbers, all the ways to make 10 using 2 numbers (number doubles).
• Sort and organise information (data handling).
• To tell the time using o’clock.
• Ongoing – addition and subtraction, counting, reading, ordering and recognising numbers, recognise and recreate patterns, count in 2s and 10s, find missing numbers.

YR - Knowledge and Understanding of the World

• Understand and sequence the life cycle of a sunflower.
• Plant a Sunflower seed and observe it grow.
• Plant and observe a variety of seeds including sprouting seeds.
• Look after and observe the life cycle of a caterpillar.
• Find out about farms and cows. Floating and sinking.

YR - Physical Development

• Create simple 3 step sequences using shapes, jumps and travelling (gymnastics).
• Have an awareness of space and move with control and co-ordination.
• Develop skills of sending and retrieving equipment by rolling, pushing, touching, kicking, catching and trapping.

YR - Creative Development

• Use Van Gogh’s work to inspire our own paintings.
• Make a clay cow.
• Whole school project inspired by Renoir’s ‘Umbrellas’
• Use a variety of media to draw, sketch and colour.
• Weave and sew.

YR - Information, Communications Technology

• Operate simple equipment.

• Navigate our way around a computer programme.

 YR - Cultures and Beliefs

• About the story of Noah’s Ark.
• Show care and concern for others, the environment and living things.

YEAR 1 (Y1) Summer Term - First Half Term

Y1 - Personal Social and Emotional Development

• Caring for our environment.
• Issues such as right and wrong from the story of Jack and the Beanstalk.
• School council issues.
   

Y1 - Communication, Language and Literacy 

• Main texts: My Bean Diary, Jack and the Beanstalk.

• We will be: Writing non-fiction bean diaries, retelling the story of Jack and the Beanstalk and writing up our cress investigations.
• Ongoing work throughout the term will include Phonics, word recognition, spelling, grammatical awareness, handwriting, sentence construction, punctuation and vocabulary extension.

Y1 - Mathmatical Development

• Numbers and the number system, place value and ordering, addition, subtraction, positional language and problem solving.

Y1 - Knowledge and understanding of the world

• Science: Planting beans and other seeds, making careful observations of their growth, naming parts of plants and investigating what plants need to grow healthily.
• ICT: Using Colour Magic to design story front covers and using keyboard skills to add a title and author name.

Y1 - Physical Development

• Games: Sending and receiving with bats and balls and developing football skills.

Y1 - Creative Development

• Art: Using chalk pastel skills to create portraits of Jack and the Giant.
• Music: Exploring how to use pitch descriptively to compose Giant chants.

YEAR 1 (Y1) Summer Term - Second Half Term

Y1 - Personal, social and emotional development

• Healthy food and exercise.
• Transition to Year Two.

• Main texts to be used: The Great Green Forest.
• We will be: Creating non-fiction fact files about rainforest animals.
• Ongoing work throughout the term will include Phonics, word recognition, spelling, grammatical awareness, handwriting, sentence construction, punctuation and vocabulary extension.

Y1 - Mathmatical Development

• Doubling, simple division as grouping and sharing and measuring.

Y1 - Knowledge and understanding of the world

• Science: Investigating materials and waterproofing, investigating the habitats and features of different rainforest animals (Zoolab visit). 
• Geography: Comparing rainforest and local environments (visit to Wakehurst Place). 
• DT: Designing and making a new rainforest creature.I
• ICT: Programming a programmable toy (Bee Bots) to follow a route.

Y1 - Physical Development

• Athletics: Preparing races for Sports Day.

Y1 - Creative Development

• Art: Creating fact file backgrounds using different paint techniques and equipment. 
• Music: Reviewing previous learning about different instruments, beat, rhythm and pitch. 
• Whole school project: Exploring ‘Umbrellas’ and other work by Renoir.

YEAR 2 (Y2) Summer Term - First Half Term

Y2 - Personal, social, emotional development and citizenship education

• School Council.
• Developing relationships.
• Respect for living things and the environment.
• Friendships.
• Moving on (to new class etc)Healthy Lifestyles.

Y2 - Communication, Language and Literacy 

• Key texts: Egg (story writing), the Magic Bicycle (recount writing), Mrs Armitage on Wheels. Non-fiction associated with history
• This Is Me Now – write letters to new teachers.
• Ongoing throughout the term, including:
  Phonics, spelling, word recognition, handwriting, , sentence construction, punctuation, grammatical awareness, reading comprehension, writing composition.

Y2 - Mathmatical Development

• Ongoing throughout the term including:
• Mental calculations, counting, properties of numbers, sequencing, place value, ordering estimating, Understanding + , -, x and - , money, measures, shape and space, fractions, data handlingY2 - Knowledge and understanding of the world.

Y2 - Knowledge and understanding of the world

• Science: Life-cycles: birds and mini beasts. Investigating minibeast habitats.
• RE: Old Testament Stories – Joseph and his Coat of Many Colours 

 Y2 - Physical Development

• Games: consolidation and refinement of ball skills, developing accuracy in aiming; use of basic attacking and defending strategies.
• Football skill: Chelsea FC

Y2 - Creative Development

• Art & Design: Oil pastels: layering colour 
• Painting techniques -Backgrounds, horizon lines and washes
• Music: Symbols to represent a score. Exploring instruments

Y2 - Information Communication Technology

• Digital photography/animation/power point
• Developing paint magic skills

YEAR 2 (Y2) Summer Term - Second Half Term

Topic - Healing Hands, On the Move, This Is Me Now

Y2 - Personal, social, emotional development and citizenship education

• School Council.
• Developing relationships.
• Respect for living things and the environment.
• Friendships.
• Moving on (to new class etc)Healthy Lifestyles.

Y2 - Communication, Language and Literacy 

• Key texts: Egg (story writing), the Magic Bicycle (recount writing), Mrs Armitage on Wheels. Non-fiction associated with history
• This Is Me Now – write letters to new teachers.
• Ongoing throughout the term, including:
  Phonics, spelling, word recognition, handwriting, , sentence construction, punctuation, grammatical awareness, reading comprehension, writing composition.

Y2 - Mathmatical Development

• Ongoing throughout the term including:
• Mental calculations, counting, properties of numbers, sequencing, place value, ordering estimating, Understanding + , -, x and - , money, measures, shape and space, fractions, data handlingY2 - Knowledge and understanding of the world.

Y2 - Knowledge and understanding of the world

• Science: Forces and Movement: exploring pushing and pulling and their effects, making predictions and testing out ideas.
• Electricity
• History: Florence Nightingale and Mary Seacole
• History of the bicycles – a timeline.
• Design Technology: Learning about structures: building trailer for a bike.
• RE: Jesus’ miracles

Y2 - Physical Development

• Athletics: throwing, jumping, running

Y2 - Creative Development

• Art & Design: Whole school project inspired by Renoir’s ‘Umbrellas’
• Moving art. 
• Self portraits linked to ICT. 
• Music: Composition linked to bicycles.
• Singing

Y2 - Information Communication Technology

• Digital photography/animation/power point
• Developing paint magic skills

The first half of the term will focus on preparing for and undertaking End of Key Stage 1 Assessments.