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Teaching Team Miss Oliver Mrs Fitzgerald Mrs Paynter
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Support Staff Miss Hardwick Miss Shaw |
Week beginning: 1st June 2026
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Squirrels Class weekly theme Supertato! We start off our last half term with a popular story book called Supertato. This week we will immerse ourselves in the superhero topic, thinking about what supertato's powers are and what our own super powers are. |
Owls Class weekly theme
Around the world - recap what we know - where else would we like to explore? Superhero powers - linked to Supertato in literacy.
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Our Learning this week includes:
Literacy - Supporting texts: Supertato by Paul Linnet and Sue Hendry. Our current writing unit is to explore a hero and villain story. We will be writing for purpose linked to themes in the book. This week we focus on:
1.Discovering a crime has taken place in our class we will write our own letters to the police station to describe what has happened.
2.Imagining we are one of the characters from Supertato we will write a speech bubble. We will focus on writing phrases or sentence that make sense. We will focus on checking our letters are correctly formed.
Maths - This week we will be playing games that deepen the children’s understanding of the numbers to 10. We will begin by playing missing number games with quantities to 5. This will allow the children to apply their knowledge of number bonds to 5 to solve problems.
A key concept that we will be revisiting is knowing that 5 is an important anchor in our number system, from which other numbers may be derived. This will enable the children to subitise, see quantities without counting, numbers 5 to 10. We will use the rekenreks that we introduced before half term to practise subitising these numbers in a line. The children will also be using concrete objects to represent the number bonds to 10. This will deepen their sense of magnitude, e.g. knowing that 8 is a lot more than 2, but 4 is only a little bit more than 2.
| Phonics focus of the week | Song of the week | Words of the week |
Poem of the week |
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long vowel sounds |
Superheroes song |
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Our Summer Term letter is viewable here
See below for phonics information for the Summer 2 term
What the children say...
In our EYFS unit we plan according to the children's interests. We spend time talking to the children, asking them what they already know and what they would like to find out.
Our weekly themes are led by the children. Each week we share ideas and then pick a theme for the coming week.
Our PE days for both classes are:
- Tuesday
- Thursday
RE learning
In Religious Education, we will be learning about different celebrations and festivals which link to the heritage of some of the children.
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