Background Information!

This topic supports some objectives in the EYFS and National Curriculum for Year One and Two in many

areas. The idea of this topic is to enable children to become confident with who they are and allow

opportunities to think about transition into their new year group for September. Some of the things on

the plan would be things we would usually be doing in Term 6 if school life was ‘normal’.

Key vocabulary: body parts and senses words, feelings words, same, different, individual, identity.

Key Texts: Only One You/You Be You – Linda Kranz, My World, Your World – Melanie Walsh, It’s OK To Be Different –

Todd Parr, What Makes Me Happy – Catherine and Laurence Anholt, The Huge Bag of Worries – Virginia Ironside

Useful websites: https://proudtobeprimary.com/self-regulation-skills/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fGfLNNS8dlA (I’ve Got a Body) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=imO2NiKo_AQ

(If I were a Butterfly) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7PXV3dwaeNU (One More Step Along the World I Go)

Learn your address. What

does the information in each

line mean?

Can you write it down?

(Remember never to share

your personal information

with strangers).

Use Topic resource 1 to label as many body

parts as you can.

You can either write or cut and stick the labels.

Alternatively, if you have an old roll of paper, lay

down and get someone to draw around you then

you can label yourself!

Things have been a bit difficult for everyone

lately and in September, things are going to

change again. It’s ok to feel worried and upset. In

fact, it’s ok to feel anything you like. The

important thing is to share your feelings with a

grown-up you trust. Use this chart to explore

your feelings, to help you feel in control (see

Topic resource 4).

Complete Topic resource 2 & 3 and keep it to

give to your new teacher in September.

We can’t wait to get to know you and this will

help us to find out all about you!

Talk to the people in your family

and find out about their favourite

food, colour, toy, story, activity.

What are the similarities and

differences? Ask your grown up for a selection of photographs

from when you were younger.

Can you put them in order? Look how much you have

changed! Think of things you can do now that you

couldn’t do when you were younger. Now think of

things you will be able to do when you are a bit older.

Sing along to “I’ve got a

Body” and

“If I were a Butterfly”.

Practise some actions and

maybe you could even

make up some new actions and verses of your own?

Our five senses help us to find out about the world

around us. Make a

senses collection of

things you like to

see, hear, smell,

touch and taste.

Make a family lockdown handprint picture. Each

person paints their hand a

different colour and makes

a print. Wait for them all to

dry then stick one on top of

the other, biggest at the

bottom, smallest on top.

Trust. Honesty. Love. Respect. Forgiveness.

These are our five Herne Christian values.

Talk to your grown-ups about what these mean then design a

poster about the one that you think is most important.

Save it for when we start school again in September and share it

with your new teacher.

Topic resource 1

Topic resource 1

Topic resource 1

Topic resource 2

Topic resource 2

Topic resource 3

Topic resource 4

English Activities:

For the next two weeks, try doing a little bit of writing each day to link in with our topic of All About Me. Here are some

activities to spark your imagination:

Handwriting: Try practising writing some of our spelling words in your neatest, joined up cursive writing – pretty,

beautiful, after, fast, last, past, sure, sugar, eye

Draw a picture of yourself and label it with adjectives to describe what you look like and your personality. E.g. blue

eyes, tall, funny, helpful.

Write a letter to your new teacher at the Juniors to introduce yourself and tell them all about you. Things that you

could include:

Your name

Your age

Your family

Your pets

Your favourite things such as favourite colour, subject, food etc

Create a fact file on yourself! Here are some suggested headings:

My family

My favourite things

Fun facts about me!

Write an acrostic poem using your name down the side e.g. A- M - Y and write a sentence about yourself using each

initial letter as the start of your sentence.

E.g. A ll my friends are important

M y dog is called Jane

Y ellow is my favourite colour

Interview a member of your family! Think about what you would like to ask one of your family members and write a

list of questions to ask. Remember to include correct punctuation!

Practise your dictation skills! Get your adult to read out the following passage (without you seeing it!) and write

down what you hear. Remember to use neat, cursive writing, appropriate punctuation and try your hardest with the

spellings.

My parents told me that I am kind and beautiful. I have many friends and we like to climb up trees in the park.

What fun we have! When it gets cold we have to put warm clothes on and go inside.

Fill in English resource 1 with key information about yourself

Imagine that you are the main character of an adventure story and create a story map (English resource 2) about

an exciting journey that you go on. Draw pictures in the boxes and label with some key vocabulary/phrases to

support your writing. Things to consider:

Where is the story set?

Who are the main characters?

Is there a problem that you have to solve?

How will your story end? Will it have a happy ending?

Use your story plan from the activity above to create your own adventure story about yourself. Remember to write

the story in chronological order (in time order).

English Resource 1 (All About Me bunting!)

English resource 2 (story plan)

Maths Activities:

For the next two weeks, try revising all of the different skills that we’ve learnt this year.

Here are some activities that you could try:

Measure parts of your body (e.g. hand span from thumb to little finger, foot length, height) using a

ruler or tape measure and recording in cm/mm. If you don’t have any measuring equipment, you could use

non-standard units to measure e.g. building blocks, Lego pieces.

Complete the ‘All About Me’ Maths resource 1, exploring numbers that are personal to you

Using your understanding of time to solve the word problems in Maths resource 2

Investigate the three statements below. Create and solve your own number sentences to find out if

they are ‘always true’, ‘sometimes true’ or ‘never true’

When you add two even numbers together you get an even number.

When you add two odd numbers together you get an odd number.

When you add an odd number to an even number you get an odd number.

Write your own word problems for the following four calculations, then solve them!

e.g. 4 x 5 = you could write ‘I bought 4 bunches of bananas. There are 5 bananas in each bunch. How

many bananas did I buy in total?’

25 + 29 =

42 – 18 =

5 x 6 =

18 ÷ 2 =

Use your knowledge of addition and subtraction to solve the missing number problems in Maths

resource 3

Apply your understanding of place value to fill in the missing numbers from sections of a hundred square

in Maths resource 4. Remember that you need add/subtract 1s when going across, and you need to

add/subtract 10s when going up and down.

Thinking about money, can you remember what all the coins are? Using your knowledge of coins, how

many different ways of making 25p can you think of?

e.g. 10p + 10p + 5p = 25p

5p + 5p + 5p + 5p + 5p = 25p

Find the next three numbers in the following sequences

34, 36, 38, ___, ___, ___

50, 45, 40, ___, ___, ___

12, 16, 20, ___, ___, ___

Can you make up your own number sequences going forward or backwards?

Using a pack of cards, play ‘higher or lower’. Look at the first in the deck and predict whether the next card will be

higher or lower (ace is low, king is high). This develops reasoning skills and knowledge of place value.

Maths Resource 1 (All About Me Maths!)

Maths Resource 2 (time word problems)

1. I went swimming at 4 o’clock. I was in the pool for 1 hour, what time did I

get out?

2. Mary’s birthday is in February. 4 months later it is James’ birthday. What

month is James’ birthday in?

3. It took half an hour to drive to the park and I arrived at 3pm. What time

did I leave my house?

4. Sandra has to wait 4 weeks until she gets a pet kitten. How many days is

that?

5. I went on holiday for 3 weeks, but unfortunately I had to come home 4

days early. How many days was I away for?

6. I looked after my friend’s dog for 2 weeks and 4 days, I picked him up on

Thursday, what day did I give him back?

Maths Resource 3 (missing number problems)

60 + 5 = ___

30 + ___ = 34

16 + ___ = 86

99 = 100 - ___

48 = ___ - 2

___ = 40 - 9

18 + ___ = 78

27 + 20 = ___

___ = 32 - 6

Maths Resource 4 (missing numbers from a hundred square)

e.g.

13

22

32 31