This half term, we are learning all about The Victorians!
We will be kicking off our learning with a visit to MK Museum to learn all about life in a Victorian classroom, the toys Victorian children played with and how transport changed during the Victorian era. In class, we will be learning all about Queen Victoria and her life. We will then be learning about what life was like for children in the Victorian era, looking particularly close at chimney sweeps and scullery maids. This will include looking at how dangerous it was for children during this time. We will then look at life specifically for poor children before comparing the differences between school during the Victorian times and school as know it. In art, we will be developing our sketching skills to draw chimney sweeps or maids too.
In PSHE, we will be learning about Citizenship, focusing on what it means to work well with others.
In Science, we will be learning all about living things and their habitats.
In Literacy, we will be describing life in the Victorian times for children in a diary and also writing instructions.
Here are some useful links and resources to provide you with additional information.
We deliver our phonics curriculum using SoundsWrite to ensure that the children learn how to decode in a systematic and effective way. Here you will find a link to a free online course that parents can take to help them learn how to support their children in learning to read using SoundsWrite. There are also two documents which provide you with more detail around the key concepts of learning in SoundsWrite.
Free online course: https://www.udemy.com/course/help-your-child-to-read-and-write/
You will also see there is a free SoundsWrite app too which can support phonics learning at home.
There are also some useful references to how we teach certain calculation methods in Maths too as well as information about the end of year expectations in spelling, puncuation and grammar.
