Autumn 2 will be a busy and exciting time in Robins.
While there will be lots of focus and practising for the Christmas Nativity
but we won't neglect our other subjects.
Behaviours for Learning
Robins will be learning about Getting on and Falling Out. This focusses on developing children’s knowledge, understanding and skills in three key social and emotional aspects of learning: empathy, managing feelings (with a focus on anger) and social skills. This will build on the work from last half-term around cooperation and valuing diversity, and move on to focusing on four key content areas: developing the social skills of friendship, working well together in a group, managing anger and resolving conflict.
English
We will focus on 2 texts: The Journey Home by Frann Preston-Gannon and We Are Water Protectors by Carole Lindstrom and Michaela Goade.
The Journey Home explores issues of conservation and starts to explore whether we can escape the issues that endangered animals face on a day-to-day basis. Children create fact files on endangered animals as well as write short persuasive pieces on why we need to save a particular endangered animal. Children will be able to identify how a sentence is formed by its grammatical structure as a question, a command, a statement or an exclamation. Children will be encouraged to edit work, being aware of tense and word choice.
For We Are Water Protectors, children will explore the true story of the narrative, and produce descriptive non-fiction writing in different forms, such as writing about the life-cycle of water, identifying environmental issues, researching Native American tribes and creating a campaign to look after local water.
Maths
We start the half-term learning addition and subtraction. We remind ourselves of our number bonds to 10 and their related facts:
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We then use this knowledge to add and subtract numbers within 100 using efficient methods.
Later we will be learning about 2D and 3D shapes, making sure we can recognise and name them, know and can use the vocabulary of sides, faces and vertices and then explore their symmetry.
Science - Living things and their environments
Robins will learn to understand the difference between things that are alive, things that are dead and things that are inanimate (have never been alive). Asking questions about the differences between these things will help children to think scientifically. Robins will build on their substantive knowledge of different types of animals as they learn about habitats including rainforests, deserts, meadows and underground habitats. Some of these habitats will be familiar to children, others may not. Studying a variety of habitats helps children to ask and answer questions about habitats and their features and helps children to grow a body of knowledge in this area. Children will learn that microhabitats are habitats that are very small or limited, for example, under a log. There will be opportunities to undertake observation outside the classroom; making use of the natural habitats we have in our school grounds. Robins will also be introduced to the disciplinary concept of interdependence; a concept that children build their understanding of over time. Children will learn how habitats provide for the basic needs of animals and how the living things within a habitat depend on each other. Simple food chains are also introduced in this unit.
History - The Roman Empire
Robins will learn about the Roman Empire and know that the Romans invaded Britain. Children will explore artefacts and learn about the technology that the Romans used to conquer the countries that they invaded and how they changed Britain when they ruled. Robins will learn about the Roman armies, their armour and some of their battle techniques.
Religious Education
Robins will explore the question 'Why did God give Jesus to the world?' by considering what Christians believe about the birth of Jesus and what Christians believe Jesus was going to do for the world through his life and teachings.
PE
In Fitness, Robins will take part in a range of activities to develop the components of fitness; agility, balance, co-ordination, speed and stamina. Robins will work independently and in teams and will develop perseverance and show determination to work for longer periods of time.
Invasion games are where there are 2 teams and 2 goals. Examples include football, handball, rugby, netball, basketball and hockey. Robins will develop their understanding of the principles of defending and attacking. They will use and develop skills such as sending and receiving with both their hands and feet, as well as dribbling with both feet and hands. Robins will take part in games that have even and uneven sides and learn to both play by the rules and score points.
Life Skills
Linked to our behaviours for learning, our focus will be on What is important about respect? and includes anti-bullying week. Robins will focus on understanding how to develop healthy relationships and include thinking about the British values of individual liberty, mutual respect, and tolerance.
Computing
In e-safety, Robins will be learning about how to have safe, healthy online relationships with their friends. Then Robins will be learning about digital photography, the composition of pictures and exploring real and artificial digital media.
Music
Our musical learning will focus on getting ready for our Nativity. While practising and performing, we will also be learning to find and keep a steady beat, play and clap simple rhythms including a 4 beat rhythm, improvise with a beat and 1, 2 or 3 notes (C,D &E), and listen carefully and move to the music. Robins will also listen and respond to questions using the musical words we know, explore their feelings and thoughts towards music and show interest in 'did you know' facts for different songs.
DT
Moving pictures will be the focus of our learning in DT, using levers and sliders to create a magical scene with moving parts.
Linked below are the knowledge organisers that will help you support your children with all this learning during the half-term. Thank you for all that you do to support your children with their learning at Glade.