Once upon a bicycle, so they say…… You guessed it, this half term we will be reading the wonderful story of the Jolly Postman.

We will be acting out the story and creating our very own Jolly Postman book, with envelopes, letters to friends and invitations. We will even be posting a real letter. Do you know how to write the address on the front of an envelope?

But… that’s not all, we will also be learning about instructions and how to write our very own recipes… Yummy! We will even do some cooking and fun activities to develop our ability to follow and give instructions.

As well as this, we will be going on a spectacular treasure hunt and we will be writing a recount about our exciting experience. We will be using past tense verbs for our recounts. Can you think of the past tense verb for ‘go’, ’see’ or ‘walk’?

Which is heavier: a kg of bricks or 1 kg of feathers?

We will find out this half term through fun and engaging hands on lessons which allow us to investigate weight and measurement. You can start practising this at home by helping in the kitchen and by reading the measurements on everyday supermarket items.

We will continue to learn to add and subtract money through fun role play activities. This term we will be using our knowledge of number bonds to help us to add and subtract by partitioning.

Roses are red, Violets are blue, Come on botanists, We really need you! Get out your watering cans and be prepared to get muddy while we investigate different plants and flowers that you can find in and around your home.

Science will be taken out into the wilderness where we will visit Montpelier Park and become even better noticing newts; noticing all of the beautiful trees and flowers.

It is time to get your thinking caps on because this term we will be painters! We will be looking at characters from traditional tales and then creating an e-book starring our exciting characters that we designed. We will be thinking about e-safety and looking at how we can explore the internet safely.

Have you been to Ealing Abbey? Or maybe you have been to Ealing Broadway shopping centre? We will be looking at features of our local environment and comparing the differences between them from the past and the present.

What is your favourite instrument? Can you make a spectacular sound using your voice? We know you are amazing singers from our Christmas Play and we will be looking at different types of instruments and songs to express our musical talent in exciting ways.

Time to get messy! We will be looking at fantastic artists such as; Picasso and Paul Klee and exploring line, shape and colour. We will look at different painting techniques and even experiment with different types of paint.

Did you know that special foods are eaten on special occasions? This can remind us of the meaning of different occasions. Some of us may have had turkey on Christmas day, Some of us may eat Halal or Kosher food. We will also learn why some grown ups fast during Eid and we will be looking at the meaning behind different eating traditions.

This half term we will be going on exploratory visits of both Montpelier Park and Haven Green. We will be exploring the human and physical features of our local environment as well as the geography of our school grounds at Montpelier. We will also be learning how to read a compass, looking at North, South, East and West directions.

This term there will be a strong focus on how to use our core muscles to help us balance. We will be experimenting with this through gymnastics and using different equipment. We will also keep practising our ball skills to help develop our coordination.

This term we will be learning the days of the week. Get your singing voices ready because we will be learning some lovely French songs to show off our language skills.