This term in Literacy, we will be linking our reading and writing activities to our topic vets and pets. We will be writing lots of detailed descriptions about animals, learning to add interesting details and vocabulary.

We will be following the EALP to learn weekly phonemes and following this up by lots of active spelling games and activities.

In term 1 , our focus in numeracy will be place value. We will be using lots of practical materials to develop our understanding.  We will be learning to navigate our way round a 100 square learning numbers before/after, ten more/less and number patterns. We will also be  using tens and ones with numbers up to 99 showing the importance of zero as a place holder. We will develop our knowledge of number order, rounding and partitioning.

In Health and Wellbeing we will be creating our class charter in line with the UNCRC articles. From this we will be developing our understanding of our 3 school values, SAFE, KIND AND RESPECTED. Later in the term we will be learning about different types of medicines and medicine safety. We will be celebrating our success with regular stickers, points and certificates.

Our topic this term is Vets and Pets. We will be exploring what animals are safe top have as pets, what animals need to survive, how to look after animals we have as pets and the role of a vet and what they do in their job. We will be linking this to science and health and wellbeing- developing the young work force.