Mayfield Primary SchoolYEAR ONE: SUMMER TERM
OUR YEAR ONE DURING SUMMER TERM
OUR CORE INTENTION IN ACTION
SUMMER TERM 'WHEN I GROW UP...' THEME: TRAVELS & TALES
A 'When I Grow Up' Summer Summary
When I Grow Up... chose Amy's Adventure as our Stunning Start event to our Travels & Tales studies. This was the chance for the children to feel inspired for the term ahead by the courage and skills of Amy Johnson and in particular because of her links to Squires Gate (just a mile from our school). During the Parent Celebration, we welcomed families into school for our gallery of explorers. This allowed the children to share everything they have discovered about the many daring and courageous people we have studied and to re-tell their stories.
As we started with Amy's Adventure, it was the perfect chance in Geography to look at the wider area that we live in and we also worked upon learning the four countries of the United Kingdom and their capital cities. We took at close look at Amy Johnson and Dame Sarah Storey, amongst others, during our History work this term. Rather than a particular period in history, the children enjoyed looking at our locally linked heroes and their famous feats. Our Science work this term has been all about naming human body parts and introducing the human body and important jobs that the different parts do in helping us to move, grow and remain healthy.
We have had a very busy Mathematics term. Firstly, we continued to consolidate and develop our place value work before looking at multiplying and dividing. We then spent time looking at simple positions and directions before finishing with simple fractions, practical money work and reading time. Our English horseshoe and provision work was inspired by our wider theme. We re-told an adventurer's journey, before looking at traditional rhymes in poetry and studied Zog by Julia Donaldson and Lost and Found by Oliver Jeffers.
We have been looking at colour and the colour wheel during our Art this term. We have also studied the very different looking artwork of Piet Mondrian and tried our own paintings using colour in his style. We have also taken inspiration from Amy Johnson for our Design & Technology work, as we have created our own propeller planes in the style of her own famous plane. During Music we have been really busy creating a range of sound effects for our musical story called First Flight. We have continued developing our fundamental skills during most of our Physical Education work but have also had time to work on apparatus in gymnastics and looking at athletics outdoors during the second half of the term in readiness for our sports events.
We studied Judaism this term in Religious Education. We looked at the importance of the Hanukah festival and what the Shabbat means to Jewish people as their day of rest. Health and well-being have been the major focus of our PSHE & Relationships chats this term. We have talked about food, exercise, good routines for our hygiene and how to be safe in the sun. We then talked about how rules and restrictions can actually help us - the children had some interesting thoughts on these! Computing work saw the children using text and multimedia resources for the first time as they created a Travels & Tales classroom resource using labels, images and even some sounds! All very technical work and very impressive.
