Lobster Class – Ms Murphy

Welcome to Lobster Class! This year is going to be full of amazing learning and fun. In Lobster class we enjoy working in a team as well as developing our independence. We will learn lots about the world around us and how we can be the best learners. Get ready for a funtastic adventure!

Term One - Tunnels, Turrets and Towers

See the castle ahead? Get ready to invade its mighty walls. Head across the drawbridge, over the moat and up to the top of the tower. Then we will meet Rapunzel who lives in a tall, tall tower. Let’s build her a brand new one. Whose is the tallest? Can you measure it? Then dig deep, deep down, making burrows and tunnels, just like the animals who live underground. Make sure your bridge is sturdy enough to take weight to get to the other side. In Maths we will continue to look at place value and addition and subtraction.

RE – Creation

Term Two – Beat Band Boogie

Here comes the marching band. Left, right, left, right. Step in time to the beat: 1, 2, 3, 4; let's make sounds, high and low. That sound is loud. That one’s quiet. What can you hear? There are sounds all around. What’s making each one? Name all the instruments in the band and be part of a ‘body orchestra.’ Pat your knees, clap your hands, tap your feet, let’s move to the beat. In Maths we will be discovering 2D and 3D shapes as well as develop our knowledge of addition and subtraction.

RE – Incarnation

Term Three -Bounce

Throw it, catch it, roll it, bounce it, up and down and side to side. Can you catch the bouncing ball? Can you bounce too? Jump like a horse, leap like a frog or kick like a kangaroo. How many bounces can you do? Design a game, bouncy or otherwise. Now let’s relax. Breathe deeply and stretch those tired muscles. All that bouncing must have made you tired but we still have Maths to do Money and Multiplication and Division.

RE – Gospels

Term Four – Street Detectives

This way or that way? Where should we go? Up to the local shops or down to the playing fields? Let’s learn about our local community, looking at houses old and new and finding out how our streets have changed since our mums and dads were young. Perhaps your granny or grandpa went to your school or maybe they worked in the baker’s shop? Make maps and plans of the streets around us, planning our routes. What can you see? What can we find? Whereabouts do you live? As well as all of that don’t forget we need to learn how to measure length and height and learn about mass, capacity and temperature.

RE – Salvation 

Term Five- Beachcombers

What a wonderful topic for us and where we live!

Oh, I do like to be beside the seaside. Do you? That’s good, because you’re about to become an expert beachcomber. Head to your nearest beach to look for interesting and unusual objects, using your senses to spot, sniff and seek them out. Have you seen the rock pools yet? We can take a peek into the cool water to learn about the weird and wonderful animals and plants in their microhabitats. Maybe we can kick back in a deckchair and do a little reading. What’s your favourite book about the seashore? Let's invent an amazing rock pool resident. What features will it need to survive happily in its watery habitat? Make a 3-D model of your plant or creature. Got your shorts and sunglasses on? Bucket and spade at the ready? Let’s get beachcombing. In maths we will be looking at Fractions and time

RE – Islam

Term Six - Land Ahoy

Yo ho, yo ho, it’s a sailor’s life for me. Get your sea legs on, it’s time to sail the salty seas. Navigate, investigate and explore the world, just like Captain Cook. Make a boat, sink a ship, fly a pirate flag. Speak like a pirate, write like a poet, then weigh and measure a pirate’s booty. How do rescues happen at sea? Find out about brave volunteers and young Miss Darling, rowing her boat across stormy seas. Sing a sea shanty whilst cleaning the poop deck, then search the school grounds for Captain Longbeard’s hidden treasure. There’s land ahead. Let’s get this ship to port. We will be able to help navigate home as maths this term is about position and direction and statistics. 

RE - Islam