EYFS

Learning Link: All Creatures Great and Small

We will start the term by exploring our RE topic ‘Galilee to Jerusalem’. We will begin by finding out about camels and as our learning is child-led, we look forward to seeing where our link of Creatures and Great and Small will take us. 

St. Salvatore:

Mrs Sumsion – mrssumsion@st-thomas.surrey.sch.uk

St Henry:

Mon – Tues: Mrs Morgan– mrsmorgan@st-thomas.surrey.sch.uk

Weds – Fri: Mrs Hills- mrshills@st-thomas.surrey.sch.uk

Curriculum Newsletters for Autumn, Spring and Summer can be accessed here as they become available

The Curriculum Evening Presentation can be accessed here

Year Group Reminders

Week commencing – 09.03.26

Inset Day - Friday 13^th March – School will be closed

Today is an Inset Day and therefore the school will be closed.

S=P+A+C+E for Me – Red  Group

This week Red Group are invited to bring in a small item that they would like to talk about linked to our learning below.  Please can you support your child to be ready to talk about their object in front of the class.

Home Learning

Phonics

Phase 3

We will be reviewing the Phase 3 digraphs and trigraphs (ai ee igh oa oo oo ar or ur ow oi ear air er) and looking at words which have two or more digraphs in, e.g. b-u-zz-er, r-u-bb-i-sh and th-i-nk-er. We will be continuing to practise the ‘chunking’ method to help us read longer words and compound words (those made up of more than one word, such as fan/tas/tic and hel/met).We will revise the Tricky Words no, of, to, into, she, he and we

Collins eBooks

These are updated each week for you to access each at home.

Story Sacks

Please continue to enjoy these wonderful literacy resources. The sacks will come home on a Monday and will need to be returned on the Friday of that week. It is really important that they are returned on time so that there are enough sacks to send out again to each child on the following Monday.  These sacks have taken a huge amount of time and care to put together, and we are so grateful to all the families and staff members who have helped to make this project possible.  Please, please can we ask that you take care of these story sacks, so that they can be enjoyed for many years to come! A photograph is included inside each bag; please use this to ensure that all of the contents are back in the bag before returning it to school.

Any lost or damaged contents will need to be replaced or paid for.

School Jam - Mathematics

Please continue to access the School Jam program which has digital activities you can use to support your child to develop their maths skills.

Prayer and Liturgy Bag

We are now sharing the Prayer and Liturgy bag once again. When it is your turn for you and your family to use the class prayer and liturgy bag. We invite you to write a prayer, reflection, drawing or a photo to show how you, as a family, have used the prayer resources tonight.

We conduct liturgy in school using the four-part structure of: Gather, Listen, Respond and Go Forth. In the information guide you will find some ideas of how you could use the prayer and liturgy bag at home but these are only suggestions and can be used how you wish.

Reading for Pleasure

RE

Desert to Garden Challenge 3 - Lent is a time to grow in love for others Like 10:25-37

Personal, social, emotional development

Literacy and Phonics

We will be reviewing the Phase 3 digraphs and trigraphs (ai ee igh oa oo oo ar or ur ow oi ear air er) and looking at words which have two or more digraphs in, e.g. b-u-zz-er, r-u-bb-i-sh and th-i-nk-er. We will be continuing to practise the ‘chunking’ method to help us read longer words and compound words (those made up of more than one word, such as fan/tas/tic and hel/met).We will revise the Tricky Words no, of, to, into, she, he and we.

Communication and language

Mathematics

Week 18, Focus: Composition

This week, the children will consolidate their understanding of the composition of numbers by investigating the numbers within 7. Composing and de-composing numbers involves the children investigating part–part–whole relations, e.g. seeing that 7 can be made of 5 and 2. The children will deepen their understanding of a whole being made up of smaller parts through games and practical experiences, such as investigating the number of ducks on a pond. They will begin to recognise that numbers can be made by combining parts in different ways, and will be encouraged to make links by considering similarities and differences in the various ways of making 7.

Understanding the World

We will be having a visit from Bugfest and learning all about ‘creepy creatures’.

Expressive arts and design

Music

Listening to music, we will make sounds at specific musical times. We will practise finding the beat using a pattern of body percussion.

Physical Development (in PE)

Gymnastics

Move confidently and safely in space using under, round, over equipment and obstacles.

Move and stop, recognising both commands.

Show contrast with their bodies including tall/short, wide/thin,

straight/curved).

Make shapes with their bodies. Jump off an object and land appropriately.

Fundamentals unit 1 & 2

Vocabulary