EYFS

Learning Link: Our Wonderful World

A warm welcome back, we hope you had a happy and Holy Easter. We are looking forward to a fun-filled term with the children.

We will start by looking at our RE topic – ‘To the Ends of the Earth’ and as our learning is child-led, we look forward to seeing where this will take us.

St. Salvatore:

Mrs Sumsion 

St Henry:

Mon – Tues: Mrs Morgan

Weds – Fri: Mrs Hills

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 – Monday 13^th July

Large strong carrier bag

This is a reminder to provide a large named bag by Monday 13^th July in order for child to bring their wonderful learning home at the end of term.

Whole School Picnic - Wednesday 15th July

The whole school are invited to a picnic on the field at 15:15 on Wednesday the 15th of July.  Please bring along your blanket We look forward to seeing you there.

End of term on Friday 17^th July – different of end school daytime – 13:50

This is a gentle reminder that reception finish at the earlier time of 13:50 on Friday and also that there is no after school club.

Year 1 Uniform

You will have read in the school newsletter for a few weeks now that Mrs Carter has passed on the message regarding uniform in Year 1. Moving forward your child will now wear a more formal KS1 uniform of a stiff collared school shirt, school tie, trousers, skirt or pinafore (we recommend the pinafore over the skirt for ease and comfort) alongside their badged school jumper or cardigan and St Thomas school rucksack they had this year. Your child will also need their St Thomas school sun hat on sunny days (so keep that safe!). They can now wear their polo shirts, joggers and shorts as part of their P.E uniform. Any questions do not hesitate to ask. Please see link below for Magnum Enterprises, our school uniform supplier:

All Products St Thomas of Canterbury

S=P+A+C+E for Me

This is a reminder that we have now finished S=P+A+C+E for Me for the term so please can we ask that the children do not bring any items in school.

Prayer and Liturgy Bag

This is has now finished coming home but you can look forward to this continuing in Year 1

Wellies

Please do not forget to collect your child’s wellies off the rack.

Home Learning

Summer learning

Summer holidays are a special time for children to rest, explore, and enjoy new adventures. But during the long break, it is easy for some learning to slip away especially in key areas like number skills, phonics, and those all-important tricky words! The good news is that keeping these skills fresh does not need to feel like learning. Counting games, fun number challenges, spotting tricky words in signs or stories, and playing with phonics sounds in everyday conversations can make a big difference. Just a little bit of playful practice can help your child return to school feeling confident, curious, and ready for Year 1. Please see below way that can support you with this.

Phonics

Please keep going over the trigraphs (3-letter sounds) that we have taught, along with all of the Tricky Words. Please see the link below for support.

https://youtu.be/3C1KTDag0ZA

Flash Academy - EAL

Every school holiday, many pupils with English as an Additional Language (EAL) risk losing some of the progress they have made with their English language learning. To help, Flash Academy created a motivating EAL holiday challenge that gives families simple ways to keep using and practising English together at home during the break. The EAL school holiday challenge is designed for parents and carers to use with their child. It is a printable activity grid packed with fun, informal ideas that support everyday English language use. From watching a cartoon or film with subtitles to using the FlashAcademy® object translator around the home, each activity encourages meaningful language use without feeling like homework. Please see the link below to access this resource.

https://flashacademy.com/free-resources/eal-holiday-challenge/

School Jam

Please continue to access this wonderful number resource with your child over the holiday.

Collins eBooks

Please continue to access our reading scheme online throughout the summer. These have been updated.

Reading for Pleasure

Lailah’s Lunchbox by Reem Faruqi

RE

Dialogue and Encounter

We will be continuing to look at other faiths in our community and hearing about some stories, traditions, celebrations, artefacts and types of worship in these faiths

Personal, social, emotional development

We will be talking about the various ways to stay safe over the summer holidays such as staying with your adult, crossing roads safely and wearing sunscreen.

Literacy and Phonics

Phase 4 – Summer 2, Week 7

We will continue to review the sounds and Tricky Words that have been taught over the year. We will be using our phonic knowledge and Tricky Words to write short sentences.

Communication and language

S=P+A+C+E for Me

We will be talking about our plans for the summer holiday.

Mathematics

Term 3 Week 32: Focus – Subitising on Rekenrek frames

• We will be practising with the rekenreks again. Allowing the children to continue to develop their subitising skills as they explore the structure of small numbers, while building a foundation for further work in Year 1.

Understanding the World

We will be listening to the poem Plane Spotting by Jane Newbury and talking about all the places in the world that we might like to visit.

Expressive arts and design

We will be designing a postcard of the place we would like to visit after listening to the poem Plane Spotting. 

Music

Using the music from Vivaldi’s The Four Seasons, we will use percussion instruments to explore making music in different ways: louder, quieter, faster, slower.

Physical Development (in PE)

Athletics

Children will start running at varying speeds intentionally and running over obstacles. They will start to develop Jumping, hopping and leaping in

combination and with changing distance. They will start to throw for distance with some accuracy.

Target games

Intro to key throwing skills, overarm and underarm technique is taught with the aim of throwing accurately at a target or zone. Children will also select the correct throw for different situations and change their foot stance independently.

Striking and Fielding

To develop underarm and overarm throwing. Children will learn how to collect the ball and how to get a batter out as well as beginning to keep score.

Dance 

Topic ‘everyday life’.  

Children explore and use space safely. They explore shapes, travelling movements and balances. Choose their own actions in response to stimulus and are shown how to copy, repeat and remember actions whilst counting in time with the music. They perform to others and provide simple feedback.  

Games unit 1 

Children will work individually and with others. Engage in cooperative physical activities. Participate in team games and understand how to use equipment safely. 

Games unit 2 

Children will learn to develop simple throwing skills, following instructions and keeping score. They will continue to develop skills to move safely, play against a partner and begin to explore striking and fielding. 

Vocabulary