Learning Journey Enquiry Question – What is power?

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Learning Journey Enquiry Question - How does our environment shape our identity?

This term we will become explorers, learning about the similarities and differences between Antarctica and England, as well as China and England. We will use key texts such as Lost and Found by Oliver Jeffers and Chloe’s Lunar New Year to help us understand the environments, cultures, and traditions found in these places. We will also discuss and debate different perspectives through the story The Wall in the Middle of the Book, encouraging children to think carefully, share ideas, and listen to others.

Alongside this, we will continue to develop our physical skills. The children will extend their fundamental movement skills such as jumping, hopping, and balancing, and will practise moving in a fluid sequence through gymnastics. In handwriting, we will focus on strengthening fine motor control and pencil grip through directed sessions to support clear and confident letter formation.

We will engage deeply with the stories we read, retelling and captioning the beginning, middle, and end of a text. We will also enjoy a wide range of books, including non-fiction texts, to learn new facts about different environments and to ask and answer questions about the world around us. As part of our learning about cultures and communities, we will explore our own family heritage and celebrate the wonderful differences in culture and background amongst us.

In maths, we will continue to enhance our subitising and composition skills by exploring different arrangements of objects and describing the part–whole structure of numbers. We will also learn about the artist Georges Seurat and use the technique of pointillism to create our own zodiac animal artwork.

We will end the term with a celebration, coming together to enjoy a vibrant dragon dance to mark the end of our learning journey.

Learning Journey Enquiry Question – How do we make a difference?

This term we will be thinking carefully about how our actions can positively impact the world around us. Using our focus texts, including Once There Were Giants by Martin Waddell, The Secret Sky Garden by Linda Sarah and The Tiny Seed by Eric Carle, the children will explore themes of growth, change, responsibility and caring for our environment. Through these stories, we will reflect on how we grow and change over time, how families and communities support us, and how even small actions can make a big difference.

Alongside this, we will focus on developing our understanding of health and wellbeing. The children will learn about healthy eating and oral hygiene, including a visit from a dental nurse to help us understand how to care for our teeth. We are also looking forward to a visit from Raystede Centre for Animal Welfare, who will talk to us about how to look after animals and how we can show care and responsibility towards them. In physical development, we will continue to build our ball skills and refine our handwriting, focusing on correct letter formation and pencil control.

In literacy, we will deepen our storytelling skills by retelling familiar stories, writing captions and short sentences, and creating posters to encourage others to care for our school environment. As part of our learning about responsibility, we will take part in litter picking around the school grounds and discuss how to dispose of rubbish and recycling properly. We will also explore life cycles by planting seeds and observing the changes that happen during Spring.

In maths, we will continue to develop our counting beyond 20, compare numbers using language such as more than, less than and equal to, and explore composition within numbers to 7. We will also learn about doubles and begin to sort numbers into even and odd groups.

To enrich our learning further, we will take part in a Spring walk to our local library, where the children will explore the library environment and enjoy a special story session together. Throughout the term, we will reflect on how we can show kindness, share ideas, make healthy choices and care for our community and the natural world. We look forward to celebrating the signs of Spring and sharing how we can all make a difference.

Learning Journey Enquiry Question – Why do our actions matter?

This term we will explore the enquiry question Why do our actions matter? through exciting learning about life cycles, healthy choices, teamwork, traditions and caring for the world around us. The children will discover how the choices we make can affect ourselves, other people and living things.

We will immerse ourselves in engaging texts including Growing Frogs, The Very Hungry Caterpillar and Mad About Minibeasts. Through Drawing Club, storytelling and role play, the children will retell stories, sequence events and create their own narratives using newly introduced vocabulary. We will investigate the life cycles of frogs and butterflies, learning important scientific vocabulary such as tadpole, froglet, caterpillar, chrysalis and metamorphosis.

Our learning will encourage children to think carefully about healthy, 'everyday' choices and foods that would not be good for us everyday. Inspired by The Very Hungry Caterpillar, we will discuss nutritious foods, hygiene routines and how healthy habits help our bodies grow. Children will also explore emotions and self-regulation through our “green zone” learning, developing strategies to help themselves feel calm, happy and ready to learn.

To support communication and language, the children will learn rhymes, poems and songs while developing confidence in speaking and listening. They will practise explaining their ideas, asking questions and using new vocabulary linked to our texts and investigations. In Literacy and Phonics, we will continue building reading and writing skills through blending and segmenting sounds, recognising digraphs and trigraphs, and writing simple phrases and sentences independently.

In Mathematics, the children will deepen their understanding of number by counting on from different numbers, subitising to 6, exploring number bonds to 10 and using mathematical language to compare quantities and describe positions.

We will also learn about celebrations and traditions, including May Day and Maypole dancing, while developing our physical coordination, rhythm and teamwork skills. Through music, art and movement, children will have opportunities to perform songs, create artwork inspired by nature and move creatively in time with music.

Throughout the term, we will encourage the children to reflect on how kindness, cooperation and thoughtful choices can make a positive difference to the people and world around them.