| Strand and Profile | Profiles in Class | Ideas for home |
| Communication and Literacy | We will be focussing on the story ‘Zog’– with a focus on character. We will continue to use ‘Talk 4 Writing’, an approach that teaches children the language and structure of stories and non-fiction writing through three stages: Immersion, Imitation, and Innovation. We will continue to read 1:1 weekly with your child within our Library slot on Thursdays. | Encourage your child to play at reading before they can read words. Play reading games when you are on public transport or at the supermarket. Set up a regular time for reading – bedtime is excellent |
| Mathematics and Problem Solving | In this small step, children start to sort 3-D shapes. They will be given the opportunity to explore similarities and differences between shapes as they play, and to sort them according to what they notice. While they may have naturally started to sort 3-D shapes already, in this step children sort and group 3-D shapes more formally according to simple properties, including type, size and colour. | Continue to support your child at home with their functional math skills in a variety of ways, e.g. with activities such as cooking, shopping, building blocks, songs and math in the environment. |
| Personal Development | We will be learning to recognise dangers in different areas of the home/school e.g electric sockets, sharp and hot objects.
To learn how to keep yourself and others safe in this environment e.g signs for danger, liquid spillage or medicines. We will consider who our safe adults are and how to get help/first aid. We will use role play and practical activities to support our understanding. When to call 999.
| Please feel free to share any aspects of Personal Development where we can support your child at school and home, helping them build the knowledge, skills and understanding needed to lead confident, healthy and independent lives. |
| Physical Development | We will access The Reef for weekly swimming lessons. To use one stroke with a flotation aid; Begin to swim using one stroke over a short distance, possibly with a flotation aid; Begin to use different strokes e.g. front crawl, backstroke and/or breaststroke. | Stretch and move at home, in the garden or at the park. Encourage movement in a variety of ways to support healthy growth and development. |
| Science | Forces. We will explore a variety of experiments to explore and evaluate pushes and pulls, making objects go faster and slower, and why items fall to the floor when dropped. We will begin use vocabulary to describe movement. To describe how to make things speed up, slow down, stop or change direction. To begin to know that friction slows things down. To know that objects fall down because the force of gravity pulls them. | Try some simple everyday investigations at home: Which everyday things will roll and which will not? How does the size of the push affect the movement of the object e.g. ball, tower of bricks, etc. How can you go faster or slower down a slide? |
| MFL | France - This term we will be finding out about different things related to France. We will be learning about the language, culture, foods and famous landmarks. We will be making a French snack to share together and looking at the famous art work and trying to create our own Mona Lisa paintings. | We will be practising key words used in France so maybe greet each other, “Bonjour” or point out French foods or items by using the correct words in French. |
| RE | Morals and Beliefs - We will be talking about everyone having their own morals and beliefs and it’s ok to have different views on things. We will explore how we feel around change and try different activities and see how it makes us feel. | Together try something new, a new activity. Discuss what you thought about trying something new and we all have different feelings and views. |
| Art
| In Art we will develop our understanding of printing with focus on line, shape and pattern. We will print with objects, take rubbings of different textures within our surrounding and create our own art. | Explore a space around you, using a crayon and a piece of paper, take some rubbings of the floor, wall, drain cover etc, to see what patterns you produce. |
| Music | Soundscapes. We will be looking at different images and pictures and trying to think of the sounds that we may hear if we were there. We will use our imagination to think what it would be like if we were in the scene of the picture. We will use different instruments to try to make these sounds.
We will listen to a story where lots of sounds are mentioned and try to retell the story using our sounds.
| When out and about point out different sounds you hear.
Can you name the sounds?
Can you make up your sounds to different stories?
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| Humanities | The Weather. We will be finding out about the different types of weather and seasons. We will be seeing how our outside area changes over the Seasons, for example what happens to the trees. We will be discussing what clothes we wear in different seasons. We will be watching weather forecasts and take turns to deliver a weather report. We will be making our own sun catchers and wind chimes. | Talk about suitable clothes we wear in different seasons. Point out the buds, blossom and different changes that are happening to the trees and surrounding areas. Watch the weather forecast and talk about what the different symbols mean. |
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