Rabbits (Rec, Y1 and Y2)

EYFS Autumn Term Curriculum Letter

All About Me!

Welcome back everyone!

Our weekly timetable will consist of lots of fun and purposeful activities that will take place indoors and in our outdoor environment. Learning opportunities will be planned around our seven areas of learning and development according to the EYFS curriculum and will involve adult let and child-initiated activities.

Phonics	(Reception) Daily phonics using our school scheme Read Write Inc. Fred Frog will help support us to read single sounds. During this term children will learn a new sound every day. Links to videos of these sounds will be shared on Tapestry. (Pre-school) Children will begin to listen out for different sounds in the environment. READING BOOKS: All children will continue to bring home a sharing book. Please continue to make a comment in their yellow reading records. As Reception children begin to learn their single sounds, then a sound blending book will start to come home as well.
Literacy (Talk for Writing)	All children will join in with our daily literacy session and this term our story focus will be The Enormous Turnip.
Maths	Daily opportunities will be planned through continuous provision and daily routines for all children. (Reception) Our main focus will be counting and identifying number patterns to 10. Then we will begin to compare quantities exploring more/fewer without counting.
Understanding the World	Our topic this term is ‘All About Me’ which includes my body, my family and people in our community. We will talk about how we are similar and different to each other. Compare pictures from now to when they were babies and look at different job roles in our community. If possible, please could your child bring in a baby photo and some family photos, alternatively they can be uploaded onto Tapestry that we can print off for a classroom display.
RE	My Friends
Music	ME!
PSHE – Jigsaw	Being Me in my World
PE	We will do lots of physical development throughout each day, but on a Thursday we will have a PE session so please can the children come to school in their PE kits every Thursday.

We will continue to share our learning journey of each week on Tapestry so please look out each week to see what your child has been learning about. Also, please share any photos from home that your child can share with the rest of the class. We look forward to seeing them!

Please do not hesitate to contact us if you have any queries and thank you once again for all your continued support.

Kind regards,

Mrs Gains and Mrs Pinner.

KS1 Autumn Term

Curriculum Letter

I hope everyone has had a lovely summer break and ready for lots of exciting learning opportunities through our Autumn term. This is an overview of our learning topics for this term.

English	PHONICS: YEAR 1 will continue to access daily phonics sessions to ensure they are ready for their end of year Phonics Screening Check in June. ‘Talk for Writing’ – our text focus for this term is a journey story through the model text Little Charlie. During English sessions, there will also be a focus on spelling and handwriting practice.
Maths	MEASUREMENT – Time
	Year 1 Sequence events in chronological order using language. Recognise and use language relating to dates, including days of the week, weeks, months and years. Tell the time to the hour and draw the hands on a clock face to show these times.	Year 2 Know the number of minutes in an hour and the number of hours in a day. Compare and sequence intervals of time e.g 1 hour is longer than 1 minute. Order from shortest to longest periods of time … 30 minutes, 1 hour, 55 seconds
	NUMBER – Place Value/ Addition
	Year 1 Read and write numbers from 1 to 20 in numerals and words Given a number, identify one more and one less Identify and represent numbers using objects and pictorial representations and use the language of: equal to, more than, less than (fewer), most, least Count to and across 100, forwards and backwards, beginning with 0 or 1, or from any given number Read, write and interpret mathematical statements involving addition and equals (=) sign Add one-digit and two-digit numbers to 20, including zero Solve one-step problems that involve addition, using concrete objects and pictorial representations, and missing number problems	Year 2 Read and write numbers to at least 100 in numerals and in words Identify and represent numbers using different representations, including the number lines Recognise the place value of each digit in a two-digit number (tens, ones) Begin to understand zero as a place holder Compare and order numbers from 0 up to 100; use and = signs Count in steps of 2, 5 and tens from any number, forward and backward Use place value and number facts to solve problems. Solve problems with addition in different contexts Recall and use addition facts to 20 fluently, and derive and use related facts up to 100 Add using concrete objects, pictorial representations, and mentally, including: - A two-digit number and ones - A two-digit number and tens
Science	We will be learning about ‘Everyday Materials and uses of Materials’ and we will continue to observe seasonal and weather changes throughout each term.
Geography	The UK – Children will name, locate and identify characteristics of the four countries and capital cities of the United Kingdom and its surrounding seas.
RE	This term we will be focusing on the religion Islam and learning about what Muslims believe about human beings, their relationship to each other and their God.
PSHE (Jigsaw)	Our focus for this term will be ‘Being Me in my World’.
Art and Design	Our Artist for this term is ‘Jackson Pollock’. This unit the children will develop more control of the types of marks made within the range of media. They will continue to investigate pattern and texture producing and expanding range of patterns.
Computing	Our focus will be ‘Grouping Data’ and ‘Pictograms’.
Music	Whole class instruments - The children get an insight into a brass style instrument and how to play including an introduction into notation.
PE	Our PE sessions will take place on Thursday and Friday. Please make sure your child comes to school in their PE kits on these days.

Reading Books – Once our Phonics/Reading sessions begin in the first full week, your child will start to bring home a reading book, this will be changed every Friday so your child can practise their reading fluency of the story throughout the week. In addition to this, your child will bring home a library book that you can share together. Please comment in your child’s yellow reading record when your child has read.

Home Learning – This will be set each week to reflect what we have been learning in school.

I am very much looking forward to being part of your child’s learning journey through Year 1 and 2, but if you do have any worries or questions about anything, please do not hesitate to contact me.

Thank you for your continued support.

Mrs Gains