Autumn Term 2025

English

This term in English, our focus will be on different purposes for writing: to entertain, to advise, to instruct, and to inform. The children will be exploring these through five different text drivers, which will inspire and guide their own writing. Throughout the term, we will be revisiting key writing skills such as using capital letters, full stops, conjunctions, and punctuation accurately. The children will also be learning how to use exclamation marks and question marks effectively, as well as practising how to sequence sentences so their writing flows.

Our first text driver will be ‘UFO’, where the children will create their own story about meeting an alien. Next, we will use ‘Beegu’ to inspire a letter of advice. With ‘How to Wash a Woolly Mammoth’, the children will write a fun set of instructions, and finally, we will explore ‘Don’t Read This Book’ and ‘The Lion and the Mouse’ to inspire entertaining stories of their own.

 

Yr1 Maths

This term in Year one the children are going to start off with Place Value (within 10). They will be recapping and extending their learning from YR such as sorting and counting objects, counting on from any number, identifying one more and one less and comparing numbers using greater than, less than and equal to. They will also be learning addition and subtraction within 10 using part whole models and their number bonds and looking at 3D and 2D shapes.

 

Yr 2 Maths

This term the children will be recapping knowledge from year 1 on place value and starting addition and subtraction. They will be learning how to partition numbers, estimating numbers on a number line and counting in 2s, 5s, 10s and 3s. They will also be starting on the topic addition and subtraction which includes bonds to 10, adding across 10 and add to the next 10 and subtract across 10. At the end of the autumn term, they are going to be recapping their knowledge on 2D shapes and learning about 3D shapes and their properties.

 

Yr1 Phonics

This term the children in Year 1 are going to be recapping their phonics that they learnt in reception and will be expanding their knowledge. They are going to be revisiting digraphs such as ‘or’, ‘oo’ and ‘sh’. During these phonics sessions the children orally blend words that include the sound and also write the sound and words on a whiteboard and then include these words in sentences.

 

Yr2 Spellings

This half term the children will be recapping the spellings of tricky words and looking at the spelling rules. They will be using different techniques such as pyramid writing and rainbow writing to learn these spellings. These spellings will include Common exception words and word families such as words ending in ‘ind’ ‘oor’ and ‘ast’.

 

Science

This term in science we are going to be starting of our longitudinal study that will carry on throughout the year. This year’s study is Do we see the same birds in the school garden throughout the year?

Science takes place one afternoon each week, and this term’s topics are Animal Survival and Habitats. The children will learn about how animals survive, including feeding, moving, and sensing for survival. They will then move on to exploring what a habitat is and how both animals and plants adapt in order to live there. To bring their learning to life, the children will also take part in practical, hands-on investigations around the school grounds.

 

Art

This term in Art the topic is Portraits. The children are going to be looking at a variety of portraits and self portraits by different artists including the Mona Lisa by Leonardo da Vinci. They will start by making drawings of facial features with detail and then recapping the primary and secondary colours and the colour wheel. The children will be focusing on Cubist portraits by Picasso, looking at the shapes and colours they can see before finally planning and drawing their own self portrait in the Cubist style of Picasso.

 

History

This term in history our topic is Titanic. Beech are going to be examining a range of photos and sources. They are going to be learning about why the Titanic sink and recalling key events leading up to the iceberg collision. They will also be reading eyewitness accounts and creating their own posters for the Titanic.

 

Geography

This term the geography topic in Beech is Where am I? Throughout this topic they will be looking at where we are in the world, and the countries in the UK, use directional language and add symbols to show features on a map. They will be developing their map skills and using direction language to describe the location of objects in the classroom and playground.

 

RE

In RE this term the key concepts are Celebration: Harvest and Light as a symbol: Hanukkah and Advent. They will be exploring different celebrations, understanding the features of celebrations, how celebrations affect us and others and why Christians celebrate Harvest. When learning about Light as a symbol they will learn to recognise how candle flame relates to their own lives, recognise how candle flames are used at Hanukkah and Advent and recognise the value of candle flames.

 

PSHE

This term in PSHE the topic is Relationships. The children will learn about families and friendships including roles of different people, families and feeling cared for. They will also learn about safe relationships including managing secrets, getting help and recognising hurtful behaviour. Finally, they will be learning about respecting ourselves and others including how behaviour affects others and being polite and respectful.

PE

In autumn Beech are going to be focusing on four different topics in PE.

Learning through play

Gymnastics (Body Parts)

Ball skills (Feet)

Dance (Heroes)