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Teaching Team Miss Oliver Mrs Fitzgerald Mrs Paynter
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Support Staff Miss Hardwick Miss Shaw |
Week beginning: 6th July 2026
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Squirrels Class weekly theme Sports Day
Squirrels end of year parent meetings are Monday 6th June for those who have requested one. We look forward to sharing your child's progress. Tuesday 7th July - Sports Day 9:00-10:00am |
Owls Class weekly theme Sports Day
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Our Learning this week includes:
Literacy - This week we focus on writing to communicate with our new teachers to tell them all about me.
We recap our 5 key parts of our sentence using our hands to help us:
- Capital letter
- Finger spaces
- Segment the sounds in each word so you can spell it.
- Check the sentence makes sense - read it back.
- A stop sign (full stop, exclamation mark or question mark).
Children will continue to explore a range of activities to support their developing fine motor and support their writing stamina. In addition to their homework we would love children to bring in any writing they do at home to share with the class so we can celebrate their writing efforts together.
Maths - We will be exploring the concept of weight as a measure. The children will listen to Pamela Allen’s Who Sank the Boat? and use the mathematical vocabulary heavier, lighter, balanced, and equal weight to explain their ideas and observations. We will then explore our own weight and investigate how we can shift our weight to balance our bodies in different ways. The children will then help our learning puppet balance items on a boat so that it does not sink, encouraging them to think about weight distribution and balance.
As the week progresses, the children will have plenty of opportunities to use balance scales to compare and investigate the weight of different objects. They will identify the heaviest and lightest items and notice when objects are only a little heavier or lighter, or much heavier or lighter than one another.
Towards the end of the week the children will discover how items can be used as a ‘go between’ to help them to order three or more objects by weight.
| Phonics focus of the week | Song of the week | Words of the week |
Poem of the week |
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Recap of Summer 2 words |
heavy, light, heavier, lighter, balanced, equal |
Thunder Storm |
Our Summer Term letter is viewable here
See below for phonics information for the Summer 2 term
Last week's poem was:
Pitter Patter
Pitter patter falls the rain,
On the roof and window pane.
Softly, softly it comes down,
Makes a stream that runs around.
Flowers lift their heads and say,
“A nice cool drink for us today.”
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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