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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 December 2025
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Squirrels Class weekly theme Silly Rhymes
The children loved the rhyming theme we had last week, and finding different words which rhymed. We enjoyed sharing the series of books by Kes Gray, starting with Oi Frog and continuing through the week. This week we will continue to think about rhyme, but this time as silly as we can get! Starting off with .... the snail who delivers the mail! |
Owls Class weekly theme Music
The children will be exploring pulse, rhythm and pitch as we explore a range of music across the week. We will be learning how we can use our own names to create our own clapping rhythms. |
Reminders for the week:
Monday 1st December 14:30 - Shared Reading
Nativity costumes due in by Wednesday 3rd December.
Our Learning this week includes:
Literacy - We continue to create rhymes exploring the books ‘The cat and the rat and the hat’ and ‘There’s a bear on my chair.’ The children will create their own fun rhymes and we will all have a go at exploring words and deciding if they rhyme or not. In doing so, they will have fun but also be writing CVC words using the sounds they know. We will also do some fun outdoor mark making this week - creating giant maps…. where is the treasure buried - x marks the spot!
Maths - We will focus on the skill of counting and its purpose: to find out how many of something there are. Adults will name the objects or actions being counted to emphasise the numerosity of the set, for example: “Would you please collect six crayons and bring them to me?”
The children will revisit the concept of 1:1 correspondence by matching collections of objects to visual representations, such as the dot patterns on a dice or the fingers on a hand. They will revisit the idea that the last number in the count tells us how many objects there are altogether, and begin to apply this concept to more abstract items, such as counting the number of jumps in a workout.
We will also be investigating what happens to quantities of objects when they are rearranged.The children will discover that even if we move objects around, the number of them stays the same.
Expressive Arts and Design - This week we are fully immersed in our Nativity rehearsals. We will be using the stage to practise our lines, acting out the story together and remembering when to come onto stage. It takes a lot of courage to stand on stage so we will be supporting our wonderful children to find their confidence and big voices. On Friday we perform to the rest of the school in our dress rehearsal.
| Phonics focus of the week | Song of the week | Words of the week |
Poem of the week |
| ai, ee, igh, oa | Nativity Songs |
lyrics, chorus, rhythm |
Falling apples |
Our termly Class letter is viewable here
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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