Welcome to Foundation

The Team

Miss Thickbroom      Mrs Jenkins            Miss Smith                 Helen
​Class Teacher            Class Teacher            Class LSA                Class LSA



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Key dates 
PE is every Tuesday.
Forest School is every Friday- Please send your child in with a spare pair of shoes!
 
Monday 7th June- Term starts
Monday 7th June- Home learning set on google classroom
Friday 2nd July- EYFS Sports Day
​Monday 12th July- Home learning projects due in
Wednesday 21st July- End of Year Reports sent home
Thursday 22nd July- End of term

Resources

Our Learning This Half Term

Welcome to Summer 2 Half Term! This half term, our topic is Roaming in the Rainforest.  We will be learning all about the different layers of the rainforest, the animals that live there and why the rainforest is at risk. Finally, we will be following the adventures of a sloth named Frank and a moth named Dee in our story "Sloths don't run!"

Personal Social and Emotional Development
This term we will be learning to: 
- Talk about how we show feelings.
-Talk about our behaviours and their consequences.
-Take account of one another's ideas about how to organise their activity.
Communication, Language and Literacy
This half term we will be learning to:
- Read and comment on stories about the rainforest.
-Demonstrate understanding about the stories we have read. 
-Write key sentences using phonemes learnt in our phonics sessions focusing on digraphs and trigraphs.
-Write some common irregular words.​
Mathematics
This half term we will be learning to:
- Double, share and group numbers to 20. 
- Notice the odd and even structure on number shapes. 
- Consolidate learning about positional language.
- Explore and investigate relationships between numbers and shapes.

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Understanding the world and R.E 
This half term we will be learning to:​
- Comparing homes around the world and certain rooms e.g. rooms of worship.
- Discuss iconic and special places around the world.  
- Discuss who the church is special to and why. 
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Expressive art and design 
This half term we will be learning to:
- Create simple representations of objects including parrots, snakes and rainforest scenery. 
-Select appropriate resources and adapt work where necessary.
-Experiment to create different textures. 
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PSHE - Changing Me
This half term we will be learning to:
 - Understand that everyone is unique and special.
-  Express how we feel when change happens.
- Understand and respect the changes they see in themselves and others.
- Know who to ask for help if we are worried. 
​- Celebrate change. 
Suggested activities to support learning:
- Use persona dolls to support children in considering others feelings.
- Read books with stories about characters that follow or break rules, and the effects of their behaviour on others. 
-Play games that promote turn-taking and sharing.
ggested activities to support learning: 
- Help children to identify the main events in a story and re-enact as a basis for imaginative play. 
- Practice reading and writing all RWI set one and two sounds.
- Read with your child daily, looking for digraphs within words and highlighting red words.​
​- Practice the high frequency words sent home daily. 
Suggested activities to support learning:
- Read Double Dave by Sue Hendra.
- Play Double Trouble on Nrich.
- Play Numbots
- Provide quantities of foods to share on a picnic. 
- Plan an obstacle course, checking where things need to be in relation to others.
- Look at patterns in stories from a range of cultures. 
To support your child at home you could:
- Draw a picture of your home and write a sentence to describe what you like best about it. 
- Discuss where your special place to visit is. 
- Discuss any times you have visited a church. Was it for a special occasion?

​To support your child at home you could: 
- Plan and design your own rainforest with different materials.
- Talk to children about how we can experiment with different materials and what they think might happen.
- Provide a "holding bay" for models where they can be enjoyed or developed on. 
To support your child at home you could: 
- Name different parts of the body.
- Talk about different things you can do and foods you can eat to stay healthy.
- Talk about how we all grow from babies to adults.
- Talk about how you feel about moving into Year 1.
- Share memories and best bits about being in EYFS. 
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