Fox Talbot
Curriculum Planner 2024-2025
Summer 6
How does your garden grow?
This term our topic title is “How does your garden grow?”. We will be planting sunflower seeds and bean seeds, observe how they grow and learn about the different parts of a plant. Through an experiment growing cress seeds in different environments, the children will learn what a seed needs to grow and what a plant needs to stay healthy. Lots of learning will take place outside, with hunts for plants in our outdoor area, in the school field and during a trip to a local garden. The will be plenty of opportunities to develop our artistic skills through making plant and flower creations by drawing, painting and using 3d crafts. Our school artist will also be working with the children to create a huge picture of a garden using printing and collage.
Our PE days this term will be on a Tuesday and Thursday. Please ensure your child wears their PE kit to school on these days.
As always, please hear your child read at home as often as possible.
Summer 5
Where does it live?
This term our topic title is “Where does it live?”. Through our class book “Poo at the Zoo”, we will learn about the different animals that live on our planet – what they look like, what they eat and the habitats they live in. We will search for bugs outside and try to grow sea monkeys in an aquarium. At the end of term, we will visit Fairfield Animal Centre in Southwick and learn about and get close to the animals who live there.
Our PE days this term will be on a Tuesday and Thursday. Please ensure your child wears their PE kit to school on these days.
Spring 4
How are places different?
Our question for Spring Term 4 is ‘How are places different?’. We will learn all about the landscape, weather and animals in Africa through our class book “Handa’s Surprise” and compare these to our country. As well as learning about the different continents of the world, we will study our own country and local area. We will enjoy a walk around Corsham and see the different places and features of our home town.
Our PE days this term will be on a Tuesday and Thursday. Please ensure your child wears their PE kit to school on these days.
Spring Term 3
What inspired Alma Thomas’s art?
Our question for Spring Term 3 is ‘What inpsired Alma Thomas’s art?’. We will learn all about the Artist Alma Thomas and find out what inspired her art and how she created it. We will create artwork based on her work and experiment with colour, pattern and texture. Just as she did, we will also use sound and movement to inpsire our art. During this topic, we will also compare art from other famous artists and consider what art we like best and how different art makes us feel.
Our PE days this term will be on a Tuesday and Thursday. Please ensure your child wears their PE kit to school on these days.
Autumn Term 2
What can a boat be made out of?
Our question for Autumn term 2 is ‘What can a boat be made out of?’. We will learn about different materials, spotting them in and around the school and finding out about their properties. We will test which materials are waterproof and decide which would be most suitable to use for making a boat. Finally, we will make boats and test them out.
Our PE days this term will be on a Tuesday and Thursday. Please ensure your child wears their PE kit to school on these days.
Autumn Term 1
What makes me special?
We are very excited to welcome all the new children to Regis this term. We will spend lots of time settling the children into school, making sure they are happy and used to their new routines and learning environment. We will be thinking about our topic question “What makes me special?” and compare what is similar and what is different between ourselves and our friends and families. We will learn why we are all unique and why we are all special.
Our P.E. days are on a Tuesday and a Thursday so please make sure your child wears their P.E. kit to school on these days. Please ensure that all items of clothing are labelled so that we can return any clothing that is taken off to it’s rightful owner.
Summer Term 6
Our question for the summer term 6 is ‘What happened before I was born?’ We will be starting our learning with meeting Bob, the Man on the moon. We will find out about Bob’s day and ask some questions about what they would like to find out about the moon. We will then research the first moon landing and explore what that meant to us as a nation. How did we watch this spectacular event and how was this similar to other nations around the world? We will also be designing and creating our own rockets, picnics and moon small worlds for ourselves.
Our PE days this term will be on a Tuesday and Thursday. Please ensure your child wears their PE kit to school on these day. We have still got an awful lot of school clothing that is not named – we cannot take responsibility for unnamed clothing, so it is essential that all school uniform is labelled clearly with your child’s name.
You can support your child’s learning at home by:
- Asking them about what they have learned about in school that day.
- Discussing the topics that are being covered together.
- Reading about the topics at home.
- Visiting the library to find out more about the topics for the term.
- Practise counting carefully and in multiples of 2s, 5s and 10s (Year 1).
- Practise blending and reading pseudo (nonsense words) in preparation for the Year 1 phonics check.
- Practise reading and spelling the Year 1 common exception words.
Summer Term 5
Our question for the summer term 5 is ‘What am I?’ We will start our learning with researching different animals and then sorting these animals into groups. We will also be looking at what different animals eat before finally finishing off with exploring human and animal babies, identifying our body parts and naming our 5 senses and how we use them to explore the world around us.
Our PE days this term will be on a Tuesday and Thursday. Please ensure your child wears their PE kit to school on these day. We have still got an awful lot of school clothing that is not named – we cannot take responsibility for unnamed clothing, so it is essential that all school uniform is labelled clearly with your child’s name.
You can support your child’s learning at home by:
- Asking them about what they have learned about in school that day.
- Discussing the topics that are being covered together.
- Reading about the topics at home.
- Visiting the library to find out more about the topics for the term.
- Practise counting carefully and in multiples of 2s, 5s and 10s (Year 1).
- Practise blending and reading pseudo (nonsense words) in preparation for the Year 1 phonics check.
- Practise reading and spelling the Year 1 common exception words.
Spring Term 4
Our topic question for Spring term 4 is ‘Where am I?’ Following on from last term our topic takes us back in time to look at how houses from the past compare to our own homes. We will also be exploring what geographical features we find immediately outside the school grounds and then into Corsham. After that we will look at schools from the past and compare them to our school now, asking the question, how have they changed?
Our PE days this term will be on a Tuesday and Thursday. Please ensure your child wears their PE kit to school on these day. We have still got an awful lot of school clothing that is not named – we cannot take responsibility for unnamed clothing, so it is essential that all school uniform is labelled clearly with your child’s name.
You can support your child’s learning at home by:
- Asking them about what they have learned about in school that day.
- Discussing the topics that are being covered together.
- Reading about the topics at home.
- Visiting the library to find out more about the topics for the term.
- Practise counting carefully and in multiples of 2s, 5s and 10s (Year 1).
- Practise blending and reading pseudo (nonsense words) in preparation for the Year 1 phonics check.
- Practise reading and spelling the Year 1 common exception words.
Spring Term 3
Our question for Spring term 3 is ‘What were The Arts like in the 80s?’ We are going to be learning a lot about this era, looking at different creations, spotting patterns and then creating some of our own.
Our PE days this term will be on a Tuesday and Thursday. Please ensure your child wears their PE kit to school on these day. We have still got an awful lot of school clothing that is not named – we cannot take responsibility for unnamed clothing, so it is essential that all school uniform is labelled clearly with your child’s name.
You can support your child’s learning at home by:
- Asking them about what they have learned about in school that day.
- Discussing the topics that are being covered together.
- Reading about the topics at home.
- Visiting the library to find out more about the topics for the term.
- Practise counting carefully and in multiples of 2s, 5s and 10s (Year 1).
- Practise blending and reading pseudo (nonsense words) in preparation for the Year 1 phonics check.
- Practise reading and spelling the Year 1 common exception words.
Useful Links
https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/articles/zcwyhcw
Autumn Term 2
What superpower is needed to change a material?
Our question for Autumn term 2 is ‘What superpower is needed to change a material?’ We are going to be learning a lot about different materials, spotting them in and around the school and looking at their properties and how we can change them.
Our PE days this term will be on a Tuesday and Thursday. Please ensure your child wears their PE kit to school on these day. We have still got an awful lot of school clothing that is not named – we cannot take responsibility for unnamed clothing, so it is essential that all school uniform is labelled clearly with your child’s name.
You can support your child’s learning at home by:
- Asking them about what they have learned about in school that day.
- Discussing the topics that are being covered together.
- Reading about the topics at home.
- Visiting the library to find out more about the topics for the term.
- Practise counting carefully and in multiples of 2s, 5s and 10s (Year 1).
- Practise blending and reading pseudo (nonsense words) in preparation for the Year 1 phonics check.
- Practise reading and spelling the Year 1 common exception words.
Useful Links
https://www.bbc.co.uk/cbeebies/topics
https://www.ictgames.com/mobilePage/whackAMole/index.html
https://www.ictgames.com/mobilePage/spookySounds/index.html
Autumn Term 1
Who am I and where do I come from?
Our big question this term is ‘Who am I and where do I come from?’ We will spend the first few weeks really getting to know your child and how they learn. We will then concentrate on getting the children to find similarities and differences between themselves and their friends and we look at who is in their families and why they are special.
Our PE days this term will be on a Tuesday and Thursday. Please ensure your child wears their PE kit to school on these day. We have still got an awful lot of school clothing that is not named – we cannot take responsibility for unnamed clothing, so it is essential that all school uniform is labelled clearly with your child’s name.
You can support your child’s learning at home by:
- Asking them about what they have learned about in school that day.
- Discussing the topics that are being covered together.
- Reading about the topics at home.
- Visiting the library to find out more about the topics for the term.
- Practise counting carefully and in multiples of 2s, 5s and 10s (Year 1).
- Practise blending and reading pseudo (nonsense words) in preparation for the Year 1 phonics check.
- Practise reading and spelling the Year 1 common exception words.
Useful Links
https://www.bbc.co.uk/cbeebies/topics