Language & Literacy – During Term 1

Talking & Listening

• Listen to and follow instructions accurately.
• Speak clearly and audibly with confidence to a range of audiences.

Reading (At appropriately differentiated levels)

• Participate in guided reading sessions and develop visual, meaning and grammar reading strategies.
• Know the purpose of captions, labels and lists.
• Shared reading of a recount.
• Comprehension tasks.
• Modelled and guided reading.9

Writing (At appropriately differentiated levels)

• Recognise full-stops and capital letters when reading and name them correctly.
• Use upper case letters and full stops to demarcate sentences

Phonics & Spelling

• Linking sounds to letters, sounding the letters of the alphabet.
• Hearing and saying sounds in order in words.
• Blending sounds to read and write CVC words.

Handwriting:

• Use a comfortable and efficient pencil grip.
• Trace/write own name
• Write lower case letters using the correct sequence of movements.

World Around Us (Topic Work) –

This term our topic is I Am Special

Some of the activities we will be involved in are:

History

• We are learning to identify the main features of home and school. (P)
• We are learning to design and make models of places real or imaginary. (P)

History

• We are learning to identify how we change at different ages. (I , COT)
• We are learning to find out about ourselves and our families now and in the past. (I, COT) We are learning to find out about their own and other people’s history. (COT)

Science and Technology

• We are learning the names and functions of external body parts. (I)
• We are learning to investigate how journeys to school have changed over time (M&E)
• That different seasons affect us in a variety of ways (I, COT)