The expectations for your child are that by the end of the academic year they are able to:

• – Multiply and divide any positive integer up to 10,000 by 10 or 100 and understand the effect.
• – Order a given set of positive and negative integers.
• – Use decimal notation for tenths and hundredths.
• – Convert decimals to percentages.
• – Relate fractions to division and to their decimal representations.
• – Convert improper fractions to mixed numbers.
• – Calculate fractions of amounts.
• – Find equivalent fractions.
• – Simplify fractions.
• – Use a variety of mental strategies to solve problems.
• – Carry out column addition and subtraction of positive integers up to 10,000.
• – Know by heart all times tables up to twelve.
• – Carry out short multiplication and division of a three digit number by a single digit number.
• – Carry out long multiplication of a two digit number by a two digit number.
• – Convert 12 hour time to 24 hour time.
• – Understand how to calculate area of squares and rectangles.
• – Approximate the area of shapes.
• – Recognise the four different types of triangle.
• – Calculate perimeters of shapes.
• – Recognise parallel and perpendicular lines.
• – Estimate and measure angles.
• – Calculate angles in a straight line or triangle when other angles are given.
• – Use all four operations to solve simple word problems.
• – Read and construct bar charts and line graphs.
• – Convert from one unit of metric measurement to another.
• – Identify 3D shapes.
• – Make nets of 3D shapes.

Autumn Term

Fiction: Story Structure, Creative Writing Skills, Story Settings, Character Building.

Non-fiction: Investigating Classic Poetry.

Grammar: Punctuation.

Spring Term

Fiction:Narrative Poetry

Non-fiction: Researching Reports.

Grammar: Punctuation

Summer Term

Fiction: Different Times and Cultures

Performance Poetry

Non-fiction: Delving Into Dictionaries

Grammar: Punctuation.

The expectations are for your child, at the end of the academic year, to be able to:

• – Develop characters using own description, dialogue and vocabulary.
• – Read aloud with expression, taking the audience into account.
• – Work in a group to plan and manage a task.
• – To plan a structured story with a theme.
• – Use a thesaurus to extend vocabulary.
• – To recognise and explain metaphorical expressions.
• – To proof read own writing.
• – Experiment with different ways of opening a story.
• – Use independent spelling strategies.
• – Identify different styles of poetry.
• – Analyse, compare and respond to poems
• – Convey feelings in a poem.
• – Use structure and themes of a poem as a model for writing own poem.
• – Write in the style of a known author.
• – Compose simple, compound and complex sentences and punctuate correctly in independent writing.
• – To know how to write dialogue and how it is set out and punctuated.
• – Use basic grammar with accuracy.
• – Write from another characters point of view.
• – Write detailed reports.
• – Adapt reports to a particular audience.
• – Write dictionary definitions.
• – Use a dictionary to improve work.

The children will be given activities in which they follow instructions, observe, predict, test, record, evaluate and develop a scientific vocabulary. They will be given the opportunity to investigate and explore science practically through the following topics.

Year 1

Autumn Term:

• Forces (friction, air resistance and gravity)

Spring Term:

• States of Matter (solids, liquids and gasses)

Summer Term:

• Living things (habitats and reproduction)

Year 2

Autumn Term:

• Living things and habitats
• Electricity practicals

Spring Term:

• Properties and changes of materials

Summer Term:

• Digestion
• Teeth
• Food chains

Autumn Term

World War One

In this thought provoking topic the children will be studying a wide range of aspects of the world conflict. This includes the causes, trench warfare, battles, letters home and The Christmas Day Truce.

Summer Term

The Stuarts

Moving on from the Elizabethans the children will be studying the entire Stuart period, learning about James, the Gunpowder Plot, the Great Fire of London, the Great Plague and Oliver Cromwell and the Civil War.

Autumn Term

Coasts

The Kites will be studying some fascinating facts about how coasts are formed, their differences and the wildlife they support. On our trip to Walton On The Naze they will learn about costal landforms and erosion. It’s an exciting day with fossil hunting and ice cream!

Spring Term

Water

The children will study the world’s oceans, reservoirs, lakes and rivers. They will study how water is used. How the presence and absence of water effects wildlife and how it survives.  They will ultimately be looking at the future and the importance of the preservation of the world’s water and reliant wildlife.

Summer Term

Ecology

A lovely topic for the children to study as they will be closely looking at the disapearing rainforests and the reduction in wildlife. Green house effects and other pollutions, the energy the rainforests produce for the planet.  The children will explore the area of recycling and consider what can be done for the future.

Kite Room Letter to Parents

Kite Room Spellings