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For our second Spring term topic, we will be travelling even further back in time, to the time of...
The Great Fire of London
We will be learning all about The Great Fire of London of 1666 and learning how many changes were made for the better following this terrible event. We will use everything we have learned to create our own Fire safety video.
Hook Question
How did a loaf of bread start The Great Fire of London?
This half term we will learn all about the events of The Great Fire of London in 1666. We will learn facts about how the fire started, how long it lasted, how it was brought under control and eventually put out. We will then learn about the changes that were made to try and prevent such a terrible thing ever happening again. We will learn about key historical figures such as Thomas Farriner, Samuel Pepys and King Charles II.
This half term, as well as learning about The Great Fire, we will continue to learn all about materials and the different properties of each one.
Here are some of the texts we will be using. You might even have some of them at home.
Make sure you keep an eye on the weekly Sway to find out key up-to-date information about our learning. Look out for the special link that will be sent out to you each week.
Charlie Monkey (Our class pet)
Phonics
In school we do phonics every day based on the Bug Club Phonics scheme. We get our planning from the Bug Club phonics website and we enjoy playing the games on there.
Keep an eye out on your Bug Club home account as we often share the games and books we look at in class with you to view again at home.
Bug Club is based on a document called Letters and Sounds: Click below for "A Parent's Guide to Letters and Sounds."
Handwriting
In school we follow the Penpals for Handwriting scheme. We believe handwriting is the foundation for learning as it allows us to express ourselves on paper, gives us confidence and allows us to have pride in our work.
The letters are split into 4 different families. We have the curly caterpillars, the long ladders (sometimes called long legged giraffes), the one arm robots and the zig zag monsters. At first, it is important that we learn to form the letters in each family correctly and learn how to position them on the line. We spend a lot of time working on this in Year 1. Once this is secure we will then move on to learning some basic joins.