Autumn Term 2013
Autumn 2013 in Base Three – Mrs Higson and Mr Lippok
This term our theme will be ‘Finding Nemo’. We will be learning all about plants, animals and environments in our local area and areas in the
wider world, linking to weather and water. A great deal of our theme work over the term will be based around story and non-fiction books
about water. Throughout the term we will read and revisit key stories including ‘Soggy the Bear’ by Philip Moran and Michael Foreman, ‘One
World’ by Michael Foreman, ‘Seal Surfer’ by Michael Foreman, ‘Jack’s Fantastic Voyage’ by Michael Foreman, ‘Underwater Farmyard’ by Carol
Ann Duffy and Joel Stewart and a selection of non-fiction books with amazing facts about water. We will be visiting Pennington Flash early in
the Autumn Term and this will be used as the starting point for many of our activities. We are also hoping to visit an aquarium after Half
Term to introduce areas in the wider world.
Science
Roleplay
Throughout the first half term we will focus on ‘Living Things in the Local Environment’.
Our roleplay area this term will be under the sea
We will be conducting investigations and fieldwork activities to explore the different
where the children can be deep sea divers
plants and animals we find in our local area.
exploring shipwrecks, reefs and the many creatures
The second half term will focus on ‘Grouping and Changing Materials’. We will investigate a
found there.
variety of materials, their properties and how they can be used to create different things.
Maths
Geography
Read Write Inc.
During the first half term we will focus on:
Through this theme we will be
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place value, counting on and back in ones
focussing on our local area and areas in
books to consolidate set 1 sounds. Through
and tens, counting in twos, fives and tens,
the wider world. We will be exploring
word times they will practise segmenting and
number bonds to ten and
these different areas through
blending simple words.
addition/subtraction.
fieldwork, observation, questioning,
We will then move on to cover topics such as
books and the internet. We will also be
to consolidate set 1 sounds and teach set 2
money and data handling. Children will learn
developing our geographical skills of
sounds.
to sort and display simple information.
using maps, globes and atlases at a
Art & Design Technology
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Mr Lippok’s group will be reading Green books
Mrs An. Davies’ group will be reading Orange
books to consolidate knowledge of both set 1
range of scales.
Our focus in Art and Design Technology this term is to create paintings, collages,
Miss Crosbie’s group will be reading Red Ditty
and set 2 sounds.
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Mrs Higson’s group will be working on the
sculptures and digital displays using the different environments as the stimulus. We shall
Literacy and Language programme. They will be
look at several artists who use natural environments as the basis of their work and create
doing reading and writing tasks on a variety of
our own ‘masterpieces’.
writing types.