Class Teacher: Miss Lodge

Terms Five and Six

This term, the children will be exploring the big question: “What’s your favourite story?”

To help us investigate this, we will work through a series of mini-enquiries:

• What is a story?
• What stories do we remember? 
• What is your story? 
• What happened? 
• What are real tales/yarns? 
• What stories are from all over the World?

 

Through stories, class discussions, and shared experiences, children will explore the concepts of comparison, purpose, identification, pattern, fairness, cause and effect, strength, phenomena, evolution, inheritance and impact.

Phonics

We follow the Read Write Inc. phonics programme. This term, the reception children will continue learning their set 1 sounds and special friends. They will become more confident with blending sounds together to read words. They will continue to practise writing letters and words.

Year 1 children will be learning set 2 and 3 sounds and building their skills of reading and writing words containing these sounds. We encourage children to apply their phonics skills across all areas of learning.

Families can support at home by engaging with the Virtual Classroom films wherever possible. Please continue using the QR codes to access virtual classroom videos.

English

We will be doing daily reading and writing lessons based upon a new story every few weeks. These are: Burglar Bill, Zog, Rhinoceros Rules, A gift for Amma and Small’s Big Dream.

 These lessons will explore new vocabulary, grammar, comprehension skills and provide opportunities for children to learn how to form letters correctly and how to write a sentence. We will explore lots of other stories within our daily story time sessions.

 

Maths

Across the term, the children will develop themselves as mathematicians. Reception children will be taught the following units: numbers beyond 10 and counting patterns, spatial reasoning. Year 1’s will be taught: Numbers 0–20, geometry, position and direction, time and coin recognition. The children will explore counting songs every day.  The children will also have a daily 10-minute ‘Mastering Number’ maths session. They will be given lots of opportunities to explore mathematical concepts through the provision.

R.E

In R. E we will be exploring the question ‘How do we know that new babies are special?’.

Focusses:

-How do we know new babies are special?

-What do some Muslim people do to show that a new baby is special?

-What is Aqiqah, and why is it important to some Muslims?

-What is Jatakarma, and why is it important to some Hindu people?

-What might people make for a new baby?

-How are some babies named?

PSHE

The children will explore ‘Citizenship’ and ‘Economic Wellbeing’.

Focusses:

-Rules

-Similarities and differences between people

-What is money, and how do people use it?

-Saving and spending money

 

PE
Our P.E. days are Tuesday and Thursday
This term, we will focus on Real PE lessons, gymnastics, and dance.

Home learning

For home learning, children should be doing the following every week:
● Reading as often as possible – ideally 5 times a week
● Practising Maths on Numbots. 
● Spelling shed – Year 1 (Stage 1 first)

 Teach Your Monster To Read is a fun resource for your children to use at home. Please use their login details to access the school account.

Children have logins for the websites above in their reading records. Please let Mrs Fraser know if the children need another copy of their log-in details.