Week beginning 7.10.2024 

This week our story theme is ‘ Handa’s Surprise’. We will be using the story to explore our senses using descriptive words, talking about healthy eating, our likes/ dislikes and the African culture/ wildlife. We will discuss surprises we’ve had, role play the story using animal masks and small world toys, explore some of the fruits from the story and draw/ label some story scenes. We will also use our senses this week when exploring the season of Autumn. The children will go on an Autumn walk in the school grounds to discover what they can see, hear, smell, feel and taste. We will use some Autumn natural objects in our mud kitchen , water tray, counting, patterns and sensory play.
In phonics, our focus sounds are g, o, c, k and e. We will learn match initial sounds, learn how to recognise the graphemes, the formation phrases, read words using the sounds taught so far and play oral blending games.
In maths, we continue our unit of work ‘ talk about measure and patterns’ by :
- exploring simple patterns
- copying and continuing simple patterns
- creating simple patterns
In R.E., we will be reflecting on our topic ‘ Myself’ with a ‘ big question’- why am I precious?​​​​​​

Week beginning 30th September 2024

This week, our focus story is ‘Funnybones’. We will think about what a skeleton is, learn some body part names, make playdough bones, look at x-rays, draw around each other , make cotton bud skeletons and memorise rhymes from the story by heart. We will also be learning about keeping our teeth healthy and what it is like to visit the dentist.

In phonics, our focus sounds are n, m and d. We will be matching initial sounds, learning how to write these letters and playing oral blending games.

In maths, we will be talking about measures and patterns. Our objectives are :
Compare size
Compare mass
Compare capacity
The children will be exploring these objectives through a range of practical activities using bucket balance scales and different sized containers with rice and water.

In RE, we continue our topic ‘Myself’ by thinking about how we say ‘ welcome’ in different languages and the ways we welcome others with our actions.

This week, the children will meet their year 6 buddy for the first time. The children will spend some time together in class getting to know each other. Year R and 6 will get together at set times during the year, it may be to eat lunch together, complete a craft activity or to share a story.

The children will also be taking part in a ‘Respect’ workshop with Mrs Delgado. During this time the children will think about ways they can show respect to everyone at home and in school.

Week beginning 23rd September 2024

This week, our focus story is ‘ The Colour Monster’. We will use the story to explore emotions with the children. We will talk about what makes us feel happy/ sad/ angry/ scared and how we can help others when they feel this way. We will explore the colours used in the story to illustrate these emotions and think about how our faces match our feelings. We will listen to different music and think about how the music makes us feel. The children will make happy feelings bottles and create their own colour monsters using paints and modelling materials.
In phonics, we explore the sounds s, a, t and p. Each day we will explore objects in a box which start with this initial sound. We will learn how to correctly pronounce each sound, the new GPC and mnemonic, the formation phrase and play an oral blending game.
In maths, we have begun a unit of work called ‘ Match, sort and compare.’ This week we will sort objects to a type, explore sorting techniques, create sorting rules and compare amounts. We will check the children’s understanding of colour through sorting games and activities.
In R.E. our topic is ‘Myself’. We will be talking about how our name is special to us and what makes us precious to God.