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Teaching Team Miss Oliver Mrs Fitzgerald Mrs Paynter
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Support Staff Miss Hardwick Miss Shaw |
Week beginning: 4th May 2026
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Squirrels Class weekly theme Celebrating Me! This week we begin to think about why each of us is special, identifying our similarities and differences and talking about what makes us unique and special from each other. We will talk about ourselves, our talents, our family and our hobbies. |
Owls Class weekly theme Celebrating Me! This week we begin to think about why each of us is special, identifying our similarities and differences and talking about what makes us unique and special from each other. We will talk about ourselves, our talents, our family and our hobbies. |
Our Learning this week includes:
Literacy - We will begin the week by recapping what we did on our school trip, speaking in whole sentences. We will share some of the photos from the day and talk about our favourite parts. We will record our own ideas (children will work at their own writing development) thinking about our sentence checklist. Children will share their writing with adults and each other to celebrate their writing.
Our next writing unit is to write a celebration book all about me. This week we will get started on creating our booklet ourselves and designing and writing on our front cover. We will think about what is special to us and what makes us unique.
Maths - We will begin by revisiting the composition of numbers 6 to 9 using the ‘5 and a bit’ structure. The children will work with counters on a double die frame, two five die patterns placed side by side, and a 10-frame made up of two rows of five.
We will then explore the different compositions of 10. The children will be encouraged to spot the larger part of 10 when it is shown using the ‘5 and a bit’ structure, and to quickly recognise (subitise) the smaller part.
They will also learn how their fingers can represent two parts of 10 by singing ‘10 Fat Sausages’ and using their fingers to show how many are left in the pan. Adults will support the children in subitising both the fingers that are up and the fingers that are down.
Later, the children will use 10 double-sided counters to represent ‘sausages in a pan’. They will drop them into a pan and look at how many land on the burnt side and how many land on the ‘just right’ side.
Understanding of the World - We will be talking about our favourite toys and what they do e.g. light up, move, programable etc. Then we will explore some toys from the past such as spinning tops, pick up sticks, wooden puppets, metal cars etc. The children will be asked, what is the same? What is different? What do you notice? and we will encourage them to make comparisons about the toys we use today compared to the toys from the past.
We are really looking forward to Grandparents Day on Tuesday 12th May - please make sure you've let us know whether your child will or will not have a grandparent attending.
| Phonics focus of the week | Song of the week | Words of the week |
Poem of the week |
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Short vowels |
Five little flowers | past, present, future |
Hungry Birdies |
Our Summer Term letter is viewable here
See below for phonics information for the Summer 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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