Rabbits (Rec, Y1 and Y2)

EYFS Summer Term 1

Curriculum Letter

Wonderful Weather

Welcome back everyone!

Our weekly timetable will consist of lots of fun and purposeful activities that will take place indoors and in our outdoor environment. Learning opportunities will be planned around our seven areas of learning and development according to the EYFS curriculum and will involve adult let and child-initiated activities.

Phonics	(Reception) We will continue to do daily phonics using our school scheme Read Write Inc and will continue to work in our reading progress groups. (Pre-school) Children will begin to learn the picture names for each sound using our phonics scheme. READING BOOKS: All children will continue to bring home a sharing book. Please continue to make a comment in their yellow reading records. Reception children will continue to bring home a sound blending/story book to practise at home please practise at least 3 times a week to improve their reading fluency.
Literacy (Talk for Writing)	All children will join in with our daily literacy session. Our talk for writing text for this term is ‘Little Red Riding Hood.’
Maths	Daily opportunities will be planned through continuous provision and daily routines for all children. (Reception) We will continue to deepen our understanding of numbers to 10 and beyond including the composition of each number and using subitising skills (recognise quantities without counting) while also exploring shape, space and measure.
Understanding the World	Our topic for this term is farming and growing. We will have lots of hand on experiences in school and especially at Farm School. We will learn about the different parts of a plant and do some planting in school and at the farm.
RE	Our Special Places following the Lincolnshire Agreed Syllabus.
Music	Everyone! (Charanga music scheme)
PSHE – Jigsaw	Relationships!
PE	We will do lots of physical development throughout each day, but on a Thursday we will have a PE session so please can the children come to school in their PE kits every Thursday.

We will continue to share our learning journey of each week on Tapestry so please look out each week to see what your child has been learning about. Also, please share any photos from home that your child can share with the rest of the class. We look forward to seeing them!

KS1 Summer Term 1

Curriculum Letter

I hope everyone has had a lovely Easter holiday and ready for another exciting term!

This is an overview of our learning topics for this term.

English	PHONICS: YEAR 1 will continue to access daily phonics sessions in their progress groups to ensure they are ready for their end of year Phonics Screening Check. ‘Talk for Writing’ – Narrative – A Warning Tale – Kassim and the Greedy Dragon. Reading Books will be changed every Friday so your child can practise their reading fluency of the story throughout the week. In addition to this, your child will bring home a library book that you can share together. Please comment in your child’s yellow reading record when your child has read. They will earn ‘reading dojos’ for this.
Maths	Children will explore mathematical concepts associated with the following topics:- Number: Place value, addition & subtraction Number: Multiplication and Division Measurement: Length, Capacity and Mass.
Science	We will be learning about *‘Living things and their habitats’* and observing seasonal changes. We will have hands on experiences for this topic at Farm School.
Geography	This term we will be doing a ‘Local study – The School’ with a focus on mapping skills.
RE	This term, we will continue to learn about *Salvation,* where we will understand the importance of Easter for Christians.
PSHE (Jigsaw)	The topic for this term is ‘Relationships.’
ART	We will be learning skills for sculpture and printing and studying the artist Esther Mahlangu.
Computing	We will be learning about the topic ‘*Programming Animations’* this term.
Music	Our music topic for this term is ‘*Zootime*’ following our Charanga Scheme of Music.
PE	Our PE sessions will take place on Wednesdays and Thursdays. Our Wednesday session will be Swimming at Wrangle (please see letter sent last term for details). Both days children should come to school in their PE kits.