Rowans
Welcome to Year 1 and 2 - The Rowans!
We have 27 children in our class.
Our class teachers are Mrs Jackson and Miss Apps.
Our morning teaching assistant is Mrs Proctor and our afternoon teaching assistant is Mrs Whitby.
We love learning in our classroom and also our weekly outside 'Wild at Heart' session with Mrs Lound.
We have PE on a Monday and our Forest School session on a Thursday so don't forget your kit!
Take a look at our yearly curriculum!
Rowans: Y1/Y2 | Autumn term | Spring term | Summer term | ||||||||||||
Topic Name | Animal Antics | Seasons, Sparks & Flames | Let’s Explore | Grandma’s Toy Box | The Lighthouse Keeper’s Lunch | Queens, Queens, Queens | |||||||||
English topics/texts | Cheeky Monkey Video – Description – wanted posters
Mr Wolf’s Pancakes – Ending Predictions
Poetry – Oi Frog
GR Text: Fairy Tale Pets
| Samuel Pepy’s Diary
The lonely Christmas Tree (Literacy Shed)
Great Fire of London – Information Page
Letters to Santa
GR Text: Pumpkin Soup | Lost and Found Oliver Jeffers– Narrative
How To Wash A Wooley Mammoth – Instructions
Three by the Sea – Letters as characters
GR Text: Rooster Wore Skinny Jeans | Nothing – Mick Inkpen
Barbie’s adventure video – Recount of events
The Wonder – Changing parts of story
GR Text: Grandad’s Secret Giant
| Come and visit Skegness! – Advertisement poster
Light House Keeper’s Lunch
Recipe – Healthy Sandwich
GR Text: The Disgusting Sandwich
| Fiction Page – Queen Elizabeth II
Traditional Tales – 3 Bears
Poetry – Indian Animal poem
GR Text: Hotel Flamingo
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History | Great Fire of London | Arctic Explorers (Shackleton, Scott & Franklin) | Toys in living memory | How Skegness has changed over time | Look at Queen Elizabeth I and II and Queen Victoria | ||||||||||
Geography | Continents | London link to Thames | Poles | UK and capital cities Local village | Sea sides – compare Skegness to St. Ives | Compare India to UK | |||||||||
Science | Animals Including Humans | Seasonal Changes (Autumn and Winter) | Every Day Materials | Plants | Seasonal Changes (Spring and Summer) | Scientists and Inventors | |||||||||
Art/DT | Printing – Animal Patterns
Moving animal Masks | Fire painting with silhouettes of buildings – Van Gough’s Starry Night | Andy Goldsworthy – Nature Sculptures | Textiles –Toy Puppets | Create healthy sandwich and snack
| Portraits – Pop Art
Clay sculptures – Queen’s head | |||||||||
PSHE 1 Decision | KEEPING SAFE: Road safety | KEEPING AND STAYING HEALTHY: Washing hands COMPUTER SAFETY: Online bullying | BEING RESPONSIBLE: Water spillage | FEELINGS AND EMOTIONS: Jealousy | RELATIONSHIPS: Friendship | OUR WORLD: Growing in our World | |||||||||
Music Sing up | Tony Chestnut | Creepy Creepy Castle Oats and beans and barley grow | Grandma Rap
| Orawa | Swing-a-long with Shostakovich | The Rockpool Rock As I was walking down the street | |||||||||
PE | Multi-skills Boot Camp | Gymnastics Mighty Movers | Story Time Dance Skip to the Beat | Brilliant Ball Skills Cool Core | Throwing and Catching Gym fit circuit | Active Athletics Fitness Frenzy | |||||||||
RE Lincolnshire Agreed Syllabus | Gifts and giving- why giving is important and link to celebrations/festivals- Christmas and Eid al-Fitr | Easter and surprises- significant days in Holy week and its significance to Christians | Places of Worship-places of worship including Mosques, Gurdwara, Buddhist temple and significant places to them | ||||||||||||
Computing | Computer Skills | Painting | Programming Toys | ||||||||||||
Coding | |||||||||||||||
Here are some of our adventures!