All Saints Church in Wales Primary School
Term: Autumn Term 2017
The learning theme for this term is: Healthy Me!
Personal and Social Development, Well Being
and Cultural Diversity:
Thinking of own rules for the classroom.
Emotions how do we make others feel? How do others
make me feel? What makes me happy? How the face
portrays emotion.
What I would like to learn about? How do I learn?
Activities relating to keeping healthy / safe i.e. The role
of medicines, road safety, stranger danger, dangerous
substances in the home signs and symbols for danger.
Exercise and healthy eating; designing a healthy meal.
Healthy/safe relationships and challenging stereotypes.
Special / favourite objects focus. Treating property and
people with care. Treating the environment with care.
SEAL programme: focusing on New Beginnings and
Getting on and Falling Out.
Values Curriculum-Healthy Living and Peace.
Unkind behaviour on purpose or a mistake? Finding out
before reacting.
Cultural diversity: mehndi patterns. celebrations and
traditions: Christmas around the world.
Welsh identity Welsh flag / map of Wales/welsh
objects / traditions.
Welsh Language Development
Every day greetings including: Sut wyt ti?
Counting to 10/20. Reading number words / colour names.
Songs: counting and colour songs.
Likes/dislikes: fruit and vegetables, healthy food.
Shape and colours focus: making a shape/colour book.
Seasonal focus: autumn (colour and object focus).
Clothes/Dillad, The body/corff
Toys: Teganau Christmas vocabulary. Christmas songs.
Revision of Y Tywydd / The Weather.
ICT Art programs: drawing various pictures and
labelling them. Creating symmetrical pictures.
Word exploring further fonts, size and colour;
writing labels and sentences; including inserting a
picture. Emailing and working on Hwb+
Publisher: Designing and making healthy snacks/
Infant Nativity advertising posters; combining text
and pictures.
Saving and retrieving own work on the network.
ICT is also used to support, develop and extend
learning across and within a range of activities.
Year/ Blwyddyn: 2
Language, Literacy and Communication Skills
Developing greater fluency in reading. Alphabetical
ordering. Phonics: (reading and spelling): revision of
ch/sh/th/magic e / ee / oo / and a range of end clusters
i.e. ng / ll / ss / ff/ ck plus amongst other: ph. Handwriting
correct formation of all letters. Capital letters. Writing
instructions / rules/ invitations / making posters. Full
stops at the end of work / sentences. Exclamation marks /
question marks. Using sentence linkers to extend and
improve sentences. Rhyming words/ games. Discussing and
writing simple poetry. Infant Nativity: children to plan and
design aspects of the nativity .Big Writing activities.
Mathematical Development
Addition/ subtraction: within 100 including addition /
subtraction of tens i.e. 20+30. Doubling numbers. Odd and
even numbers. Counting in 2s, 5s and 10s to 100. Counting
backwards from any given number within 100. Shapes:
sorting 2D shapes, including pentagon and hexagon. Half of
2D shapes. Symmetry.
Multiplication - developing a pictorial method x2 / x10 /
x5 / x3 using counting in steps of 2 / 10 / 5 / 3 to develop
a mental method. Collecting information and making a
graph of favourite food/fruit. Time: months and seasons
of the year. Mass: weighing and ordering objects of
different weight. Big Maths activities.
Knowledge and Understanding of the World
Time and People: Finding out about Florence Nightingale /
Betsi Cadwaleder, Guy Fawkes.
Places and People: Seasonal Changes: Seasons: Autumn.
Mapping skills: Grid reference.
Myself and other living things: Healthy Eating / Lifestyle;
identifying different fruit and vegetables, identifying a
healthy meal/ foods.
Myself and Non-living things: Electricity-dangers of
electricity, making circuits with a switch. Sources of light.
Religious Education
Truth, honesty and forgiveness. Christian
celebrations, services and festivals. The life
of Jesus, looking at his work. Images of Christ
in various works of art and in different
cultures.
Prayers and why they are important, writing
prayers. Advent, The Christmas Story.
Preparing for the Nativity.
Creative Development
Art, craft and design: Portraits looking at different examples
from art (different cultures) Painting various portraits / other
media. Colour mixing paint: Autumn theme. Symmetry: various 3D
/ 2D explore including body shapes, symmetry in the natural and
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manmade environments. Making own symmetrical patterns and
designs.
Music: Fast and slow listening to music identifying fast and
slow. Playing various instruments. Composing firework
music. Singing a range of songs.
Creative movement: Creating a Firework dance and setting it to
own music composition.
Physical Development
Gymnastics: fast slow / high low. Making a contrasting
sequence of movements/body shapes (sometimes in
symmetry) with / without a partner.
Games: Throwing and catching skills.
Healthy me: exercise and the effects of exercise on
bodies.
Activities and games using the climbing wall.
Fine manipulative skills: threading, scissor skills, using
tweezers/tongs.

This is a guide of the teaching and learning for the term. The children add their own input which determines
how the learning theme develops.
Ways you can help: Ensuring correct letter formation when writing, including capital letters. Helping to show that
some letters (including capitals) are tall letters. Counting in steps of 2, to and back from 20 and in steps of 5 and 10 to
and back from 100. Talking about and identifying healthy foods/ meals. Talking about things that use electricity and the
dangers of electricity. Finding out information about the famous people from the past mentioned above. Looking for and
naming shapes you can see in objects within the home and when you are out and about. Reading numbers beyond 100 and
identifying numbers as being odd or even i.e. when noticing house numbers. Providing your child with opportunities to speak
to you in Welsh: counting to 10, naming the colours and saying simple phrases i.e. diolch /thank you. Looking for and
discussing symmetrical patterns in everyday objects.
Diolch/ Thank you

Please go over these addition sums:

Learn to work out the sums quickly;

then learn the answers to the sums off by heart (quick recall).

Thank you!

First set: Second set:

5+4=9 5+4=9
3+9=12 5+6=11
4+9=13 6+7=13
4+8=12 8+7=15
3+8=11 8+9=17