Northway Infant School

Northway Infant School

Where Children Shine

Virginia Road, Tewkesbury, Gloucestershire GL20 8PT

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01684 293447

Orange Class

Feet, flight, feathers and fins

Spring 2024

Below is an outline of what we will be teaching this term and this terms knowledge organisers with key knowledge we want the children to retain.

Geography

We have been exploring hot and cold places of the world.  We have loved opportunities to immerse ourselves in cold places through our role play and small world areas and enjoyed our core text 'The Emperor's Egg' in English.   We have used atlas's and a globe to locate and name hot and cold places in the world.   We have looked at the features of these places and really Excelled in our Star challenge. 

Art

We listened to the traditional African Story ‘The Spider Weaver’ and learnt about the origins of Kente Cloth. We learnt about how cloth was made before learning to weave and creating our own cloth with strips of paper. Then we designed our own motifs and used these to create repeating patterns which we used to decorate our own ‘Kente Cloth’. Weaving was quite tricky but we are so proud of our finished cloth!

 

Computing

In Computing this term we have become ‘Digital Artists’. We have used different software to create our own digital art that has been inspired by the artists Matisse, Kandinsky and Mondrian. We have used Brushes Redux and Sketchbook apps and learnt how to create, transform and layer images. We have also learnt to save our work and have then gone back in to edit and improve it.

A few of my Favourite Things

 

Autumn 2023

Below is an outline of what we will be teaching this term and this terms knowledge organiser with key knowledge we want the children to retain.

A few of our favourite things

Mrs Bastin and Mrs Armstrong shared their special things with us and we have begun collecting our special things to share.  We love telling everyone about our favourite things and answering their questions!

Art

We have started the term creating self portraits from first attempts to more detailed drawings following step by step instructions.   We then looked at how to create shade and tone in colours before painting our portraits.  We enjoyed applying our new skills drawing portraits of our friends in SHINE time.

Science

We have been naming different parts of the body and face... singing 'Head, shoulders, knees and toes',  playing listen and do games to practise the names and working together to label the body of a friend.

We have started to explore our senses going on a listening walk,  looking carefully to solve close picture clues and using our sense of touch to explore the outdoor area.   

Maths

Our first unit is all about numbers to 20! We have been busy practising our counting, exploring place value in teen numbers and ordering numbers.

While in shape we have had fun making and sorting 2D shapes.

Geography

We have been exploring our school environment following a map, looking at maps/aerial photos of our school in Google maps and drawn our own maps.  We have learnt about different human and physical features... playing games with actions to help us distinguish between them, sorted pictures and built our own human features in SHINE time.

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