This term the children will be exploring the theme ‘Growing and Changing’. The children will be learning about how plants, animals and humans grow and changes. We will be thinking about what we need to grow. They will be exploring farming and how the animals and our food grows and changes. 

In our Literacy this term the children will be exploring our core text, ‘Jack and the They will be focusing on character descriptions, retelling and sequencing and identifying problems and solutions within the text. They will use character props, story maps, repeated phrases and key parts of the story to help them retell the story. The children will also be learning new vocabulary and the definitions for these words to extend their language development. 

This term we will be learning two key rhymes ‘5 currant Buns’ and ‘Tiny Caterpillar’. A copy of the rhymes that we are learning this term are available to download from the boxes on the right.

In our Phonics sessions we will be continuing to learn the initial code. The children will be learning to identify and recognise sounds and learning the correct formation of the corresponding letters. We will also be learning to segment and blend CVC words, using the sounds we know. The children will be introducing to new sounds in the unit over the term. 

Unit 11 – th, ck, ng, sh 

In Maths, the children will be focusing on their counting skills and ordering numbers to 10. The children will be developing their understanding of ordinality, recognising that every whole number are ‘1 more’ than the previous number and ‘1 less’ than then following number. They will then move on to learning about comparing numbers using the key vocabulary ‘more than’ and ‘less than’. We will also be learning about the composition of numbers up to 7. We will be exploring how to use the part-part whole method to partition numbers to 7 to identify the parts that make up the whole. This learning will move onto exploring that 2 equal parts make up a whole. Finally, the children will be exploring odd and even numbers and exploring the composition of these numbers. 

The children will be learning about 3D shapes, including the names of these shapes and how to describe the features of these 3D shapes. The children will revisit prior learning of 2D shapes and how 2D shapes fit into 3D shapes. They will also be learning about recognising 3D shapes in their environments and how these shapes are represented. Finally, we will be exploring more complex repeating patterns, using the 3D shapes they are learning about. 

In Understanding the World, the children will be focusing on ‘Growing and Changing’. The children will be learning about the four seasons and how the weather changes in these seasons. They will also be learning about how and what plants need to grow. We will be exploring how animals grow and observe the changes that animals go through. This will link to the human life cycle, where the children will be thinking about what humans need to grow and develop. Finally, they will be focusing on food and farming and learning about where the food we eat comes from. 

The Knowledge Organiser on the right will show you some of the key vocabulary that the children will be learning. During our theme, we will be reading stories to linked to ‘Growing and Changing’. You will also find a list of books that link to our theme ‘Growing and Changing’, that you could share with your children. 

In RE, our question for this term is ‘How do different people celebrate special times?’. Having explored some special people, books and stories within religious worldviews, in this question the children will investigate how different people celebrate their special times, including Christians and Sikhs. They will make links with their own celebrations and learn about how different people might celebrate religious festivals different across the globe. They will be asking questions drawn from the human/social sciences to help them understand what they are seeing with our RE friend Libby.

In Art this term the children will be learning how to use curved and spirals to create paintings inspired by Vincent Van Gogh. We will then move on to learning about how we use shapes to represent building and people. The children will finally learn about the artist Hundertwasser and use his artwork to inspire them to create their own houses using junk modelling resources. 

Home Learning: 

Each Thursday, the children will be visiting the library. The children will be choosing a new library book to borrow for a week. You will find ideas on how to support your child’s storytelling and comprehension skills in your child’s reading packets. 

To help support the children’s maths learning at home, you can borrow a maths challenge bag from us and complete a challenge. There are lots on different bags with activities to supporting counting, sorting, matching and making. The maths bags will be given out each Monday and should be returned the following Monday.

Your child has a homework book, which includes a range of challenges linked to our class learning. You can complete these challenges in any order you wish and can add photos and comments in to here. 



Please upload any photos and comments from learning at home onto your child’s Tapestry learning journal.