Welcome back to summer 2

Welcome back, I hope that you have had a wonderful two weeks making memories and enjoying the lovely sunshine. I can’t believe we have reached our final term in school and your gorgeous children’s last few weeks in F2. We are going to be so busy doing lots of lovely and exciting things……..and of course continuing to grow our brains.

As with last term our day will start with word of the day - look out for this on class dojo so you can talk to your child about it at home also. We will be continuing with our weekly challenges where the children will complete activities across the week to earn lolly sticks and if they achieve all 5 they will get a huge 10 dojos as a reward. This half term we we will also be introducing a daily writing challenge to build their confidence even further when writing sentences.

Our texts this half term are ‘Somebody Swallowed Stanley ’ and ‘The One Hundred Decker Bus’. ‘Somebody Swallowed Stanley’ will give children the opportunity to learn about life under the sea and we have lots of lovely activities planned linked to this in our areas of provision. The children will practise using their ever growing phonics knowledge to write lists and captions based on this book. Furthermore the text will allow us to think about recycling and looking after our planet through recycling, not littering and considering why this is so important. Our second book ‘The One Hundred Decker Bus’ will really challenge the children to use their imaginations as they consider ways that the bus can fit all the passengers on, and how they might do this.

In maths, we will be looking at different ways of sharing and how this can be done fairly and how we can group different objects. The children will then look at patterns, continuing patterns and creating their own. We will begin to recognise and use positional language and try to look at things from different positions to see how the view will change. Finally we will consolidate our knowledge of numbers to 20 and use our understanding to start to solve simple problems. We will continue our daily phonics lessons and the children will continue to develop their confidence segmenting and blending words. The children will move onto phase 4 phonics which will start to introduce reading and writing words that have 2 or more consonants next to each other such as ‘tent’, ‘spin’ or ‘stunt’. In Understanding the world and Exploring Arts and Design we will think about the environment and how we can look after it and learn about life under the sea. The children will learn about life on a farm and get some real life experience with our upcoming trip to Farmer Teds. The children will also look at different maps and get the opportunity to create their own. Finally as we reach the end of the school year the class will look back over their year in F2 and think about how they have changed and grown.

Reading is key to all learning and we would encourage you all to share books daily with your children. Developing a love of reading from an early age is essential for every child. We will be continuing our guided reading sessions four times each week and the children will continue to bring a reading book home each Friday alongside a book for pleasure for you to read together. Please remember to practise the children’s phonemes and tricky words with them as much as possible as this will really help them with their reading. This is more important than ever as the children get ready to move into year 1 it is crucial that they can recognise and use all their phonemes and tricky words up to and including phase 3.

Each day follows the same routine which the children thrive upon as they know what to expect. Please see below:

8:30-9:00 – Our doors open from 8.30am when the children can self-register and access Calm & Connect activities and check in with staff

9:00-9:10 – Register, Prayer and Song

9:10-9.30 – Literacy Carpet Session

9:30-10:20 – Adult led activity Literacy, Indoor and Outdoor Continuous Provision, Snack

10:20-10:40 – Phonics

10:40-11.20 – Indoor and Outdoor Continuous provision, Snack

11:20-11.45 – Maths Carpet Session

11:50-1.00 – Lunchtime

1:00-1:20 – My Happy Mind Monday/RE/PE or Handwriting (each day differs)

1:20-2.50 – Guided Reading, Indoor and outdoor provision, Interventions, Adult led activities through provision

2:50-3:05 – Story/Rhyme time

We will continue to use Class Dojo to communicate with parents - look out for messages posted on here which include key dates, activities to do at home and class updates. Please feel free to send any photos in of what the children have been up to outside of school, we love looking at these photos together in class.

A few quick reminders - PE Day is Wednesday, please ensure your child comes to school wearing their School PE Kit and pumps or trainers, the children will need a jacket or hoodie on top of their t-shirt please. Children also need to bring a coat every day - we do go out come rain or shine.

Children also need a water bottle each day.

Please make sure all uniform is labelled with your child’s name including their coat and water bottle.

As the weather gets warmer and sunnier please apply sun cream before school when appropriate and provide your child with a hat that will shade their face from the sun.

We are excited to see the children continue to have fun with their learning and make more progress.

As always our door is always open, please don’t sit at home worrying about anything, get in touch if you have any questions.

Thank you for your continued support!

Mrs Jones, Mrs Lyon & Miss Ballard x