ARP - Hazel Class

Children attend the ARP from Key Stage One (years 1 and 2). Therefore the ARP curriculum incorporates both topics from across these year groups as well as incorporating skills from EYFS (Early Years Foundation Stage), where appropriate.

Welcome to the ARP

Hazel Class

Our Learning Journey This Term

This half term we will begin by reading George and the Dragon by Chris Wormell. We will use adjectives to describe the dragon and retell the story using pictures to help us. We will then read The Princess and the Frog and use the story as a model to help us to create our own stories. We will create life-cycle diagrams to explain how frogs grow and change. We will read the rhyming story Oi Frog! by Kes Gray and identify the rhyming words by listening to the sounds at the end of the words.

In phonics we will continue working on our Phase 3 sounds. We will say the sounds for the graphemes air and er. We will practise our oral blending and segmenting- saying ch-air and then blending it to make ‘chair’ or saying ‘ladder’ then segmenting it to say ‘l-a-dd-er’.

In maths we will be exploring simple fractions, finding one half or one quarter of shapes and small numbers. We will explore position and direction, using the vocabulary to give instructions and practise whole, half and three-quarter turns. We will be working on counting to 50 and representing the numbers using objects, pictures and numerals.

At home, please encourage your child to practise counting out loud to 50. Don’t forget to try starting from different numbers! When they are confident at this, try counting with them in 2s! Please keep reading your Home Reader Book every week and do have a go at the weekly maths activities on Purple Mash.

Mrs Tweddle