Clover Class
Welcome to Clover Class
Staff
Mr Peter Snell Class Teacher
Mrs Diane Lloyd (Learning Support Assistant)
Miss Sarah Culbertson (Learning Support Assistant)
Miss Pearl Akinlade (Learning Support Assistant)
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Summer 2 2022
Our topic this term is... 
Language, Literacy and Communication
Stories to include: Back to Earth with a Bump, Aliens Wear Underpants and Space (non-fiction):
Create and describe an alien
Make fact cards about the planets
Make a list of what they would need to go on a journey in a rocket
Label the parts of a rocket
Draw and describe an alien planet
Hot seating- Pretending to be an alien from another planet
Follow instructions to make fruit rockets
Maths and Numeracy
Data handling – who’s happy to go into space? Favourite treats to take to space.
Recognising coins, buying objects to take to space – finding totals
Positional language – placing rockets on space charts
Estimating and weighing moon rocks, measuring depth of moon dust
Days of the week, time to the hour – moon watch
Addition and subtraction of suns and planets
Finding half of space objects
Counting eyes on aliens in 2’s and 10’s
DCF
Create an animation of a rocket taking off.
Programme beebots and roamer to move around ‘space maps’
Internet research on planets.
Creating pictures of space using a graphics package.
Looking at images of Earth on Google Earth
Make a fact file for one of the planets
Humanities
Countries with space travel.
Neil Armstrong
First moon landing
Space missions to other planets
Solar system
Draw a space map and plot routes
Look at Earth from space: identify land and sea
Expressive Arts
Printing a rocket picture using finger paint
Constellation art
Chalk pastel ‘space window’
Weaving with hot colours
Create an alien language using musical instruments
Make a short dance that describes a rocket travelling into space
Health and Wellbeing
Swimming lessons at Splott Leisure Centre
Role Play- moving like astronauts in space and on a planet with heavy gravity
An awareness of sun protection
Journeys, transitions and new beginnings in life
Sports Day
Science and Technology
Learning about the Solar System
The changes made to materials by heating and cooling them
To make a rocket/ moon buggy in class out of junk materials
To know what living things need in order to survive
Summer 1 2022
Languages, Literacy and Communication
Stories to include: Ramenas Ramadan; The Messy Magpie and the Cautious Caterpillar.
Pupils write instructions on how to plant seeds.
Pupils write about how Eid-ul- Fitr is celebrated.
Pupils write a persuasive text on why to recycle plastic bottles
Pupils write about the lifecycle of a butterfly.
Pupils create a healthy eating poster.
Languages, Literacy and Communication
Exploring block graphs and bar charts using chalk to make on the ground and record with criteria from the Edible garden.
Investigating length, weight and capacity e.g. measure the height of plants and weigh the gardening equipment.
Working with fractions, decimals and percentages e.g. use sticks to draw 2D shapes and divide them into halves and quarters.
Use leaves/ seeds to explore number bonds.
DCF
To produce a digital collage of the things needed for a plant to grow.
To collect, record and present data on the colour of plants observed in the Edible garden.
To produce a stop/ start animation of the growth of a flowering plant.
To produce a digital mind map to demonstrate what a flowering plant needs to grow.
To plant and care for a digital garden using MineCraft.
Humanities
Explore and learn about the festival of Eid-ul-fitr.
To investigate which plants are suited to different environments around the globe.
To explore how plastics damage the environments of the oceans.
To plant, grow, tend and harvest plants.
To explore the link between a healthy diet and feeling well physically and emotionally.
To take part in swimming lessons at the local pool.
To think about milestones and transitional events in their lives.
To capture images of plant life through the mediums of digital photography, pastels and paint.
To plan and perform a dance based on the life cycle of a flowering plant.
To learn and perform songs with a plant/nature theme.
Health and Wellbeing
To plant, grow, tend and harvest plants.
To explore the link between a healthy diet and feeling well physically and emotionally.
To take part in swimming lessons at the local pool.
To think about milestones and transitional events in their lives.
Science and Technology
To name and compare the parts of plants.
To sequence the life cycle of a flowering plant.
To think about what a plant needs to survive.
To plan and make a mini greenhouse to house cress seeds.
Spring 2 2022
Languages, Literacy and Communication
Role play and hot seating
Story sequencing
Exploring story settings
Exploring rhyming words
Compare and contrast the books to the films
Design own terrible woodland creature
Book review
Gruffalo Colour Coding
Explore exclamation marks
Mathematics and Numeracy
Explore the passing of the seasons in relation specifically to Spring.
Use of positional language to help move the mouse through the wood to avoid the animals
Exploring the concepts of Volume, area, angle and position
Recognising coins and notes and using them to pay and receive change in role play
Developing understanding of of 3D shapes and their properties
Exploring the concept of division
DCF
J2Launch to create a story setting and add characters
Film and create Stop/ Start motion video about the importance of play
Use Bee Bot to move the mouse around the woods
Use CC Express to take photographs of the different types of animal habitats
Humanities
Explore the festivals of St David’s day and Easter: why and how are they celebrated
Go on the Gruffalo Trail at the Mountain View Ranch. Follow the trail using a map.
Explore the difference between the woodland and the city.
Expressive Arts
Create and use shadow puppets to perform a Squash and a Squeeze
Make and paint clay models of the children’s made up Woodland creatures
Create Gruffalo cave paintings in the outdoor classroom environment
Create a map of the Gruffalo story
Health and Wellbeing
Explore the benefits of play e.g. relaxation, communication and friendship. Create poem/ video presentation with Foxglove class
Science and Technology
Explore light and shadows on the playground.
Discover that different animals live in different habitat
Examine different animal footprints
Follow instructions to make Gruffalo biscuits
Spring 1 2022
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Our topic this term is "Post Office Panic"
Languages, Literacy and Communication
Stories to include:
The Jolly Postman, Postman Pat, Larry’s First Day as a Postman and the Busy Little Postman
Activities to include:
Letter and postcard writing activities
Prepositional/ direction/ weight and length related vocabulary
Instructions
Character descriptions
Role play in the Post Office
Exploring and making flyers (adverts)
Maths and Numeracy
Sorting out letters and parcels into different 2D/3D shapes and sizes
Weighing using standard and non standard measures
Days of the week
Recognition of coins. Adding and subtracting coins
Measuring the length, width or height of of letters/parcels using non standard and standard measurements
Use of positional language to move beebot postman around streets to post letters
DCF
Exploring, writing, sending and opening emails on their Hwb accounts
Take part in a group and individual TEAMS call with Mrs Hardy in the classroom
Use a Bee Bot to program to deliver letters around a street floor mat
Classify letters in a pictogram/ block graphs using suitable software
Create a video/ picture sequence of the acting out of the Jolly Postman story
Use a wordbank to aid the writing of letters on the laptop
Humanities
Explore the role of the post person and other people who help us
Learn about maps, the four compass points and directional language
Find home address on Google Maps
Find out how a letter gets to its destination
Expressive Arts
Welsh National Opera weekly visits
Explore stamps from around the world and create their own
Use photographs of own face to create silhouette profile as/ similar to stamp profile
Design and print wrapping paper
Health and Wellbeing
Explore road safety and the rules
Goldilocks writes a letter of apology. Investigate what an apology is
Discuss different birthday traditions in the children’s families
Science and Technology
To investigate how a bicycle works and its major parts
Exploring the forces of pushing and pulling
Investigate the different materials that a bicycle is made of and why?
How does a bicycle lamp work. Make an electrical circuit and switch.
Autumn 2
This term our topic is Sparkle Jolly Twinkle.
Our focus this term will be:-
- Humanities- Festivals i.e. Diwali, Hanukkah and Christmas.
- Science and Technology- Light and Sound.
- Languages, Literacy and Communication- Festival stories and poetry, recipes and instructions, making and writing celebration cards.
- Maths and Numeracy- 2D shapes, repeating patterns, the temperature and number bonds.
- Expressive Arts- Festival songs and music, Rangoli patterns, firework sound Pictures, Christmas decorations and cards.
- Health and Wellbeing- Moods and emotions
Autumn 1 2021
We are having lots of fun in Clover Class!
Our topic is ‘A Few of Our Favourite Things’.
One of our favourite things we have done so far this term was go to Barry Island! This was lots of fun for pupils and staff alike.
Here are some examples of the activities we will be enjoying this term:
Languages, Literacy and Communication
- Show and Tell- bringing in your favourite toy/ book into school and talking about it.
- Writing a review of a short film/ cartoon the class has watched e.g., favourite character/ part of the story.
- To introduce the Welsh term ‘Hoffi’ i.e., to like something.
Mathematics and Numeracy
- Sorting into the categories of like and do not like e.g., hoops, worksheets and I Pads.
- Answering questions to retrieve information from data sets e.g., from Pictograms.
- Producing pictograms and block graphs to represent information on the classes’ favourite pets.
DCF
- To use apps on the iPad to identify the feelings of others by looking at pictures of faces.
- To use the I Pads to take photographs of their favourite places/ people and/or activities in the school.
- To create a mind map of their likes and dislikes, altering text and adding images,
Humanities
- Discuss/ write about, draw/paint/ find on google maps the children’s favourite place in the world.
- Talk about somewhere they have never been but would like to go. How would they get there/ what would they do? Use ICT to find out about it.
Expressive Arts
- To explore different mediums to make marks e.g., pastels, paints, charcoal, and I Pads. Which is their favourite?
- To explore different percussion instruments. Which ones did they think made the best sounds?
Health and Wellbeing
- Tasting different fruits to see which are their favourite.
- Explore different ways of travelling e.g., running, jumping, skipping etc. Which is their favourite way to travel and why?
Science and Technology
- Explore the different classifications of animals. Pupils choose their favourite.
- Pupils choose their favourite animal and create a Mind Map for it e.g., where it lives, what it eats and what are its features e.g., wings.