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About
Our weekly learning opportunities vary to follow the needs and interests of our children and new opportunities for learning as they arise, and are therefore flexible rather than fixed. We try to embody our school values as much as possible throughout each thread and during each day;
Advocates, Global Citizens,Resilient, Courteous, Free Thinkers.
MEET THE TEAM
THIS TERM WE
ARE LEARNING
English
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Maths
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Music
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Art & Design
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PSHE / Wellbeing
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RE
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Science
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Geography / History
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Computing
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P.E.
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MFL
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Personal, Social & Emotional Development
Being Me in My World:
•‘Who am I and how do I fit?’
Plus:
•Family Flower collages
•How to look after our environment – class areas and school
•Class Rules
•Toileting – being independent
Celebrating Difference:
•Respect for similarity and difference.
•Anti-bullying and being unique
Plus:
•What to do when we don’t win.
Dreams/Goals:
•Aspirations, how to achieve goals and understanding the emotions that go with this
Plus:
•Caring for our world/animals
Healthy Me:
•Being and keeping safe and healthy
Plus:
•How to help other who may be worried.
Relationships:
•Building positive, healthy relationships
Plus:
•Taking care of the ducklings.
•How we can make sure we are being fair.
Changing Me:
•Coping positively with change
Plus:
•Looking after natural world
• Reception transition activities
English
•Begin to talk about and retell familiar stories
•Begin to use new vocabulary from stories and information books
•Begin to understand that print carries meaning and has a purpose
Phase One Phonics:
•Aspects 1,2,3
•Aspects 4,6,1,2
•Respond to conversations and questions about stories
•Continue to use new vocabulary from stories and information books
•Begin to understand that in English print is read from left to right and top to bottom
Phase One Phonics:
•Aspects 5,4,6,3
•Aspects 5,7,6,2
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Maths
•Number songs
•Dates, registers, birthdays
•Subitising
•Introducing numbers 1-5 (the fourness of four etc.)
•Introducing Numicon
•Ordering by height
•Advent calendars
•Counting 1-5
•How we use numbers (Nigel’s Numberless World)
•Counting1:1
•Shapes(Jon Klassen books)
•Positional anguage
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Understanding the World
•Talk about self and family and how we are different and similar and unique
•Experience, collect and name autumn materials.
•The season of autumn – changes in weather, environment and animal behaviour. Hibernation and migration.
•Discuss/visit places of worship
•Invite visitors to share how they celebrate festivals
•Learn about environments where animals hibernate/migrate
•Observe snow and ice freezing and melting
•Learn about Diwali, Hannukah, Christmas
•Be ‘fox detectives’ in local environment
•Talk about the past in Magic Paintbrush story
•Talk about contrasts between city and ‘the wild’
•Discuss caring for the natural world
•Learn about Lunar New Year
•Look at spring flowers we planted as bulbs
•Careful observation of frogspawn/ tadpoles in tank
•Look at teddies from the past
•Talk about children’s own past (pictures of children withown teddies)
•Learn about Easter
•Observe life cycles (frogs/chicks)
•Grow beans and cress
•Plant potatoes, salad and flowers in our setting
•Learn about Eid
•Find/name/learn about range of minibeasts
•Make boats to float on water
•Draw treasure maps
•Learn about the past through fossils and dinosaurs
Expressive Art and Design
•Weekly singing and music lessons, daily singing and rhymes in class
•Daily access to a range of materials and tools for drawing, painting, collage and construction
•Daily access to spaces, resources and props for imaginative play, role play and performance
•Opportunities for music making with percussion
Plus:
•Transient art with natural materials
•Junk modelling fireworks
•Explore range of tools/techniques for modelling
•Close observational drawing of crab
•Model using clay
•Learn, rehearse and perform new songs
•Create model animal habitat for puppet in several stages
•Make loose parts picture from natural materials
•Weekly singing and music lessons, daily singing and rhymes in class
•Daily access to a range of materials and tools for drawing, painting, collage and construction
•Daily access to spaces, resources and props for imaginative play, role play and performance
•Opportunities for music making with percussion
Plus:
•Close observational drawing of fox illustration
•Work in groups to make giant train/lion head
•Lion dancing parade with music
•Use papier mache to make Humpty
•Close observational drawings of old bears
•Singing nursery rhymes
•Weekly singing and music lessons, daily singing and rhymes in class
•Daily access to a range of materials and tools for drawing, painting, collage and construction
•Daily access to spaces, resources and props for imaginative play, role play and performance
•Opportunities for music making with percussion
Plus:
•Torn paper collage of spring flowers
•Close observational drawing of bulb/shoot/flower, and of growing beans
•Close observational drawing of minibeasts
•Learn and perform songs for end of year concert
Physical Development
• Use and develop large and small muscles
•Daily access to range of wheeled resources, range of large and small apparatus, and balls
• Use of range of materials for mark-making
• Begin to use one-handed tools
Plus:
•Explore outdoor area
•Harvest and weed
•Jumping off equipment safely
•Putting on coat independently
•Digging to plant bulbs
•Use clay to make Diwa
Dreams/Goals:
•Aspirations, how to achieve goals and understanding the emotions that go with this
Plus:
•Caring for our world/animals
Healthy Me:
•Being and keeping safe and healthy
Plus:
•How to help other who may be worried.
• Use large and small muscle movements to mark-make with increasing control
• Continue to develop comfortable pencil grip with increasing control, showing preference for a dominant hand
•Write some or all of own name
•Begin to write some letters accurately
Plus:
•Manipulating clay
•Using the Kitcamp
•Sportsday practice
Personal, Social & Emotional Development
Being Me in My World:
•‘Who am I and how do I fit?’
Plus:
•Family Flower collages
•How to look after our environment – class areas and school
•Class Rules
•Toileting – being independent
Celebrating Difference:
•Respect for similarity and difference.
•Anti-bullying and being unique
Plus:
•What to do when we don’t win.
Dreams/Goals:
•Aspirations, how to achieve goals and understanding the emotions that go with this
Plus:
•Caring for our world/animals
Healthy Me:
•Being and keeping safe and healthy
Plus:
•How to help other who may be worried.
Relationships:
•Building positive, healthy relationships
Plus:
•Taking care of the ducklings.
•How we can make sure we are being fair.
Changing Me:
•Coping positively with change
Plus:
•Looking after natural world
• Reception transition activities
English
•Begin to talk about and retell familiar stories
•Begin to use new vocabulary from stories and information books
•Begin to understand that print carries meaning and has a purpose
Phase One Phonics:
•Aspects 1,2,3
•Aspects 4,6,1,2
•Respond to conversations and questions about stories
•Continue to use new vocabulary from stories and information books
•Begin to understand that in English print is read from left to right and top to bottom
Phase One Phonics:
•Aspects 5,4,6,3
•Aspects 5,7,6,2
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Maths
•Number songs
•Dates, registers, birthdays
•Subitising
•Introducing numbers 1-5 (the fourness of four etc.)
•Introducing Numicon
•Ordering by height
•Advent calendars
•Counting 1-5
•How we use numbers (Nigel’s Numberless World)
•Counting1:1
•Shapes(Jon Klassen books)
•Positional anguage
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Understanding the World
•Talk about self and family and how we are different and similar and unique
•Experience, collect and name autumn materials.
•The season of autumn – changes in weather, environment and animal behaviour. Hibernation and migration.
•Discuss/visit places of worship
•Invite visitors to share how they celebrate festivals
•Learn about environments where animals hibernate/migrate
•Observe snow and ice freezing and melting
•Learn about Diwali, Hannukah, Christmas
•Be ‘fox detectives’ in local environment
•Talk about the past in Magic Paintbrush story
•Talk about contrasts between city and ‘the wild’
•Discuss caring for the natural world
•Learn about Lunar New Year
•Look at spring flowers we planted as bulbs
•Careful observation of frogspawn/ tadpoles in tank
•Look at teddies from the past
•Talk about children’s own past (pictures of children withown teddies)
•Learn about Easter
•Observe life cycles (frogs/chicks)
•Grow beans and cress
•Plant potatoes, salad and flowers in our setting
•Learn about Eid
•Find/name/learn about range of minibeasts
•Make boats to float on water
•Draw treasure maps
•Learn about the past through fossils and dinosaurs
Expressive Art and Design
•Weekly singing and music lessons, daily singing and rhymes in class
•Daily access to a range of materials and tools for drawing, painting, collage and construction
•Daily access to spaces, resources and props for imaginative play, role play and performance
•Opportunities for music making with percussion
Plus:
•Transient art with natural materials
•Junk modelling fireworks
•Explore range of tools/techniques for modelling
•Close observational drawing of crab
•Model using clay
•Learn, rehearse and perform new songs
•Create model animal habitat for puppet in several stages
•Make loose parts picture from natural materials
•Weekly singing and music lessons, daily singing and rhymes in class
•Daily access to a range of materials and tools for drawing, painting, collage and construction
•Daily access to spaces, resources and props for imaginative play, role play and performance
•Opportunities for music making with percussion
Plus:
•Close observational drawing of fox illustration
•Work in groups to make giant train/lion head
•Lion dancing parade with music
•Use papier mache to make Humpty
•Close observational drawings of old bears
•Singing nursery rhymes
•Weekly singing and music lessons, daily singing and rhymes in class
•Daily access to a range of materials and tools for drawing, painting, collage and construction
•Daily access to spaces, resources and props for imaginative play, role play and performance
•Opportunities for music making with percussion
Plus:
•Torn paper collage of spring flowers
•Close observational drawing of bulb/shoot/flower, and of growing beans
•Close observational drawing of minibeasts
•Learn and perform songs for end of year concert
Physical Development
• Use and develop large and small muscles
•Daily access to range of wheeled resources, range of large and small apparatus, and balls
• Use of range of materials for mark-making
• Begin to use one-handed tools
Plus:
•Explore outdoor area
•Harvest and weed
•Jumping off equipment safely
•Putting on coat independently
•Digging to plant bulbs
•Use clay to make Diwa
Dreams/Goals:
•Aspirations, how to achieve goals and understanding the emotions that go with this
Plus:
•Caring for our world/animals
Healthy Me:
•Being and keeping safe and healthy
Plus:
•How to help other who may be worried.
• Use large and small muscle movements to mark-make with increasing control
• Continue to develop comfortable pencil grip with increasing control, showing preference for a dominant hand
•Write some or all of own name
•Begin to write some letters accurately
Plus:
•Manipulating clay
•Using the Kitcamp
•Sportsday practice
