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Reading books- please ensure your child brings their reading book and reading record to school everyday. It is important you read regularly with your child and record each time you have read in their reading record. If your child has read 4 or more times during the week, they will be entered into our Mystery Book draw!

Tuesday- On Tuesday afternoons, Sparrows will take part in Forest School, Kitchen Garden or Art. This will alternate every two weeks. Please ensure your child is dressed in their forest school uniform with appropriate waterproofs.

Wednesday- PE- your child will leave their PE kit in school ready for PE days.

Friday- Celebration Award Assembly via Zoom. We will send you a message on Seesaw if your child has been selected for a work award. Children who have been working hard on Spelling Shed and Mathletics and have won awards will also have a special mention in assembly! We will also change reading books and library books on a Friday.

Homework will also be set on a Friday to be completed by the following Friday. Spelling and phonics practise will be set on Spelling Shed each week as well as Maths activities on Matheletics linked to the maths work we have completed in class.

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The children will ask questions about where they live and will identify where they live on a map of the UK.

They will learn about physical and human features and identify these features within their local area of Upton.

The children will draw a simple map of Upton and will go on a local walk around Upton where we will look for different features.

We will look at simple compass direction to describe location and routes.

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What do we think about how the world was made?

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Every child will take part in daily handwriting practise as well as weekly direct teaching sessions for handwriting. We will focus on different letter families as well as words and spellings.

Before the summer term, we will introduce leading lines to some children. This prepares the children ready for joining as they move into Year 2.

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We will also work on using leading lines with CVC and CVCC words.

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Programming 2: Bee-Bot
Developing early programming skills using the Bee:Bot and virtual Bee:Bot.

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Programming is introduced through the use of a Bee-Bot; exploring its functions, creating a video to explain its capabilities, undertaking an unplugged activity, creating a world for a Bee-Bot to explore and programming Bee-Bots to tell a story

Choose your lesson

Assessment quiz and Knowledge catcher. These can be used at the start of the unit to access where pupils are in their learning as well as the end of the unit to assess progress. Go to assessment resources

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KS1 Computing: Programming Bee Bot Lesson Plans | Kapow Primary

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Programming is introduced through the use of a Bee-Bot; exploring its functions, creating a video to explain its capabilities, undertaking an unplugged activity, creating a world for a Bee-Bot to explore and programming Bee-Bots to tell a story Choose your lesson Assessment quiz and Knowledge catcher.

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Week 1 6th Jan (4 days)

Week 2 13th Jan

Week 3 20th Jan

Week 4 27th Jan

Week 5 3rd Feb

Week 6 10th Feb

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Units we will cover this term:

Addition within 20

Subtraction within 20

Numbers to 50

Introducing length and height

Introducing weight and volume

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Dance Skills

Copy and repeat actions.

Put a sequence of actions together to create a motif.

Vary the speed of their actions.

Begin to improvise independently to create a simple dance.

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During our shared read sessions, the children are given daily opportunities to read new decodable words and common exception words.

As a class, we discuss the new vocabulary in the text and share the word meanings. As a class, we work together to find the answers to questions linked to the text and then record these answers. The children also have opportunities to work in pairs as well as independently.

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The children will write:

- Detective Narratives

- Letters

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Week 8 24th Feb

Week 9 3rd March

Week 10 10th March

Week 11 17th March

Week 12 24th March

Week 13 31st March

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The children will look at cities, villages and landmarks of UK/Chester/Upton. They will explore the question– What is it like where I live? and will look at features of our locality and homes, maps and fieldwork on our school grounds.

We will also go on a local walk around Upton where we will look for different physical and human features.

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-1 decoable reading book sent home per week to match phonics level
-1 library book home per week to enjoy together
- practise phonics learned at school using Floppy's Phonics

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Can I talk about things I think are beautiful in the world?

Can I identify what the bible says about how the world was created, and express my own views about this?

How can we look after the ‘creation’?

Can I demonstrate respect for religious artefacts?

Can I talk respectfully about faith?

Can I show respect for the views of other people?

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What is it like in Chester?

How does Chester compare to other places I know?

What makes Chester a special place?

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Can I sing some songs by heart?

Can I recognise the sound and name of some instruments?

Can I keep a beat and move to music?

Can I sing confidently at different pitches?

Can I make different sounds with my voice?

Can I name the notes of my instrument part?

Can I treat instruments with respect?

Can I clap and improvise?

Can I create a simple melody with 1,2,3 notes?

Can I make simple written recordings of my compositions?

Can I perform and express my feelings about a performance?

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Children will look at a range of art work by William Morris and will discuss the plants, fruits and flowers they can see within the art work. They will select one section to draw which will then be created into a print. Children will print a repeated pattern.

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Can you create a repeating pattern using printmaking?

Can you paint on different surfaces with a variety of techniques?

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Paper craft

Children to use different folding techniques to create their own paper mouse.

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Can I programme a BeeBot to follow a route?

Can I make corrections when things go wrong?

Can I explain my thinking behind my program?

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Can you demonstrate imagination and creativity in movements?

Can you compose individual, partner and group dances?

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How can you join in an activity?

Why are you proud of you?

What are rules? Why should we follow them?

Where does money come from?

How can we keep money safe?

How can you look after the local environment?

Are you and your friends different?

Why do babies need care?

Tell me about different types of families Who can you ask for, for help?

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All the children will read with a teacher in a small guided reading group each week. They will be grouped with children reading at a similar level.

During these sessions, we work on fluency, comprehension and inference.

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Your child will need your support at home to progress well in Phonics which will be an important part of their reading and spelling development.

You can do this by;

1. Reinforcing the sounds already introduced. We will post these regularly on Seesaw. Your child will also bring the phonics worksheets they complete at school home for further reinforcement.

2. Logging into Oxford Owls (see attached instructions) and reading the Floppy's Phonics books at home with your child to reinforce both new sounds introduced and previous ones they may still find tricky.

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The children will write:

-Portal Narratives

-Information Texts

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Cooking and Nutrition- Smoothie Making

The children will follow a design process to design and make their own smoothie. They will also learn about where fruits and vegetables grow and the difference between fruits and vegetables.

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Can I test and evaluate different food combinations?

Can I describe and classify fruit and vegetables by taste and texture?

Can I suggest information that should be on packaging?

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This links to our Science work on Plants as well as our DT work on Fruits and Vegetables and Cooking and Nutrition.

More information will be sent home soon!

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Mini Makery- Fun with Healthy Food- Workshop in School

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Mini Makery- Fun with Healthy Food- Workshop in School

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Date TBC

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Local Walk around Upton/Snacks in the Park

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Local Walk around Upton/Snacks in the Park

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Geography and Locality

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Dear families,

Happy New Year!

Welcome back to a brand new term in Sparrows! We have lots of exciting learning planned as well as fabulous trips out and wonderful workshops.

Please read through our class curriculum newsletter which outlines all the different areas of learning we will be working on. There is also information about how you can support your child's learning at home.

If you have any questions, please come and speak to us.

We can't wait to welcome you back and to hear all about your Christmas and New Year adventures!

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Monday-Miss Ditchfield

Tuesday- Miss Ditchfield/Outdoor Learning Team (pm)

Wednesday-Mrs Redmond (Mrs Hetherington for Music-am)

Thursday-Miss Ditchfield

Friday-Miss Ditchfield

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Traditional Tales and Poems

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The children will learn all about planting in the Winter months. We will find out about the types of plants that we may see in the Winter and seeds and bulbs that we can plant during these months.

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The children will learn about different animal types and groups as well as the different animal diets. They will also compare different types of animals.

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We take part in 15 minute mastering number sessions four times a week as a whole class. These sessions are planned to develop the children's understanding of number.