ATUTUMN TERM 2025

Welcome back to the Autumn term! What a busy and exciting term we have got ahead of us!

Our topic this term is 'Vaynor or Victorian?' and we are developing our learning to understand what the Victorian Era was like and find out what life for a Victorian child was really like! 

History

The children will spend the autumn term learning all about Victorian childhoods and how they were very different from today. The focus will be on school, home life, work life and how these changed over time due to the introduction of new laws.

We are hoping to 'magically' go back in time and turn Vaynor into a Victorian classroom! The children will be able to experience what it was like for a child to attend a Victorian school. They will take part in Arithmetic, writing on slates, drill and even played with Victorian toys!  Would they rather be a Vaynor child or a Victorian child?

        

 

English  

We will focus on Narrative in English in this first half term and build some of the learning around the text 'The Three Little Wolves' by Eugene Trivizas. The children (and teachers!) love how this story takes a twist on the traditional and is full of brilliant surprises! The children will then look at 'The Storm Whale in Winter' and 'Sharing a Shell' to help them develop their writing skills for different writing purposes.

    

Steering the children's learning towards more Non-Fiction elements, we will look at the largest animal on the planet... the mighty Blue Whale! We are going to research facts to amaze the reader about this almighty mammal. Did you know a Blue Whale's tongue weighs the same as an elephant?

Maths

Our Maths focus this term is 'Number'. This includes: place value of 2-digit numbers, ordering and sequencing and counting in different steps. We will have lots of fun this term, using practical resources to support our learning. In Autumn 2, we move on to addition and subtraction and use our place value knowledge to support our calculations.

Science

In Science, the children will be looking at materials and their properties. They are going to have the opportunity to plan and conduct different experiments to test the suitability of materials. Working in groups, they will be able to do the experiment, and explain their findings. I wonder if there are any silly inventions that the children might be able to use their findings to explain why they might not be the best. Chocolate teapot anyone?

Geography

In Geography, the children are going to be recapping the four countries of the United Kingdom and their capital cities. Moving on from this, we will look at coastal towns before focusing more directly on the coastal town of Staithes. We will then look at the Urban city of Birmingham, comparing the two places in terms of physical and human features, but also the way of life for people living there too.