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St Margaret's Church of England Primary School

Spring 1

Our Learning in Spring 1

Theme: Twisted tales

Subject Overview
Maths

Subitise within 5, focusing on die patterns

Counting – focus on the ‘staircase’ pattern. See that each number is one more than the previous number

Composition - Focus on 6 and 7 as ‘5 and a bit’

Compare sets and use language of comparison: more than, fewer than, an equal number to

Positional language

Literacy

The Foggy Foggy Forest

The Last Wolf

Look What I Found - in the woods

Mr Wolf’s Pancakes

Personal, Social and Emotional

To name and describe feelings

To know that sometimes our actions affect others

To know how to resolve arguments and to be honest

To know how to learn from our mistakes

Communication and Language

To respond to a question using sentence starters- I think, I like, I have

To know to listen when someone is talking

To wait until someone has finished talking to talk

To listen to stories and learn the story language

To respond to a question beginning with how or why

To use ‘and’ and ‘because’ in sentences to join ideas

To think about and explain why something happens

Physical Development

To know what healthy choices are about food and drinks and why exercise is important

To hold a pencil correctly

To travel with confidence and skill around, under, over and through equipment.

To learn how to travel in different ways, developing greater skills and confidence

Knowledge and Understanding of the world

To observe the process of melting

To name a range of materials

To use learnt vocabulary to describe materials

To sort materials using their descriptions

To talk about materials in real life scenarios

To know the signs of winter

To explore which animals like cold climates

Expressive Arts and Design

To join in with simple songs

To move to musical stimuli in a variety of ways, e.g. hopping, marching

To hold tools e.g. paint brushes, pastels appropriately

To create different pieces of artwork with purpose using a variety of different media, e.g. paints, pastels, collage, junk modelling

To talk about what  has been created and to name the media that has been used

To explore mixing colours

To act out familiar stories in play