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🚀🪐 We’re thrilled to be taking the children on an exciting trip to Horrible Science: Cosmic Chaos at the Science and Industry Museum!

This fun, interactive exhibition brings space science to life in a playful and child‑friendly way. The children will explore the solar system through hands‑on activities, colourful displays and silly science challenges inspired by the Horrible Science stories. They’ll discover what astronauts do in space, learn about planets and stars, and enjoy lots of “wow” moments along the way.

The experience is designed to be engaging and imaginative, with plenty to see, touch and explore — perfect for curious young learners beginning their journey with science. It’s all about learning through play, wonder and excitement 🚀✨

A fantastic opportunity to spark curiosity and build early science vocabulary in a memorable way.

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In Drawing Club, children step into a magical world of stories and imagination.
Through shared tales, rich vocabulary and modelled drawing, they build their language skills while developing important fine‑motor skills.

Children then create their own ideas through drawing and mark making. Each child works at their own level of confidence, with the freedom to explore what they can do—talking, imagining, experimenting with marks, and even using early mathematical thinking.

Drawing Club opens the door to creativity, conversation and storytelling, all while having fun.

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😴 Peace at Last by Jill Murphy tells the story of Mr Bear, who is desperate for a good night’s sleep. But everywhere he tries to rest, there’s a new noise keeping him awake — from Baby Bear’s loud games to Mrs Bear’s snoring and the sounds of the house and garden at night. After trying every possible place, Mr Bear finally settles… only to be woken up just as morning arrives!

This gentle, humorous story helps children explore sounds, routines, bedtime feelings and empathy in a warm, reassuring way.

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✨ The Odd Fish is a heartwarming picture book about a little fish who feels different from everyone else in the ocean. While the other fish seem to fit in perfectly, the Odd Fish isn’t quite sure where he belongs — or whether being different is a good thing.

Through gentle humour and colourful underwater adventures, the story shows how our unique qualities make us special. With the help of new friends, the Odd Fish discovers that standing out isn’t something to hide — it’s something to celebrate.

The book highlights themes of self‑acceptance, kindness, confidence, and valuing differences. It encourages children to embrace who they are and to appreciate what makes each person wonderfully unique.

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✨ Rosie Revere, Engineer Ris a joyful picture book about a young girl named Rosie who loves inventing. She secretly creates imaginative gadgets from everyday objects, but after one invention goes wrong, she becomes afraid of failing.

With the help of a supportive family member, Rosie learns an important message: failure is not the end — it’s a vital part of learning. She discovers that perseverance, creativity, and bravery help engineers (and children!) grow.

The story celebrates curiosity, problem‑solving, resilience and the belief that every child can be a creator and thinker.

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FUDGE Day Celebration 💙🍪

This term, we will be celebrating FUDGE Day — Fathers, Uncles, Dads, Grandfathers, Everyone — on Friday 19th June, just before Father’s Day.

🎤 A Special Performance
The children will perform a lovely poem for their grown‑ups.

🥤 A Treat to Share
After the performance, they will serve their special adult a tasty snack and drink before home time.

We are very excited to celebrate this meaningful and memorable event with you!

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Beekeeper Visit - £7 includes jar of honey

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Beekeeper Visit - £7 includes jar of honey

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Beekeeper Visit 🐝🍯 (£7 including a jar of honey)

We are very excited to welcome a real beekeeper into school this term! The children will learn all about how bees live, work and make honey, as well as why they are so important for plants and our environment.

As part of the experience, each child will receive their own jar of honey to take home — freshly produced by the beekeeper’s busy bees!

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Learning About Life Cycles 🌱🐝

This term, we will be exploring the life cycles of animals and plants, and learning about the important impact they have on our environment.

🌼 Dandelions
We’ll observe how dandelions grow, change and spread their seeds.

🐝 Bees
We’ll learn about the bee life cycle and why bees are so important for pollination.

🔍 Outdoor Investigation
Using our school field as our starting point, the children will take part in hands‑on study and investigation to see these life cycles in action.

This exciting topic helps the children understand how living things depend on one another and how we can help protect our natural world.

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Our Focus Story 🌱✨

This beautiful story follows a tiny seed as it travels far from its parent plant — drifting across seas, deserts and mountains, and overcoming many challenges along the way. Eventually, the seed finds the perfect place to land, settle and grow into a stunning flower… ready to begin the life cycle all over again.

It’s a gentle, uplifting introduction to how seeds grow and how plants continue their journey through the seasons.

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Dandelion Playdough Recipe:

1 cup flour

1/2 cup salt

1 tablespoon cream of tarter

1 cup water

1 1/2 tablespoons vegetable oil

5-10 dandelion flowers with petals pulled out

Instructions:

1. Add ingredients into a big pot on medium heat.

2. Stir constantly until the playdough becomes a big ball and does not stick to the sides of the pot.

3. Place on a plate and flatten out to cool.

4. You could add a scent (or color) to this playdough during the “stirring” process.

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Mini focus text - The Disgusting Sandwich

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Mini focus text - The Disgusting Sandwich

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The Disgusting Sandwich tells the funny tale of a hungry badger who really wants to eat a delicious peanut butter sandwich. But as the sandwich is passed from place to place, it gets dropped, squashed, covered in mud, sat on, and becomes… utterly disgusting!

Children follow the silly journey of the sandwich as it gets more and more ruined, all while enjoying the humour, repeating patterns and playful language. In the end, the badger discovers that even the yuckiest situations can have a happy twist.

It’s a brilliant story for building vocabulary, sequencing events and enjoying lots of laughter together.

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Beekeeper Visit 🐝🍯

A beekeeper will be visiting our class to teach the children all about:

🐝 The life of bees
🌍 Why bees are important for our environment

The children will also have the chance to:

🧥 Try on real beekeeping clothing
🔧 Explore some of the special equipment used to care for bees

Learning Through Storytelling 📚🌼

We will also be reading Omar, the Bees and Me, a wonderful book that helps children learn about:

🌸 Looking after nature by planting wildflowers to create bee corridors
🤝 Friendship and cultural identity, explored through the characters Omar (a new boy from Syria) and Maisie

This experience will help the children understand how bees support our world — and how we can help protect them.

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Martha Maps It Out follows a curious girl named Martha who loves to understand the world by creating maps. She maps everything—from her bedroom and her journey to school to the feelings inside her own heart.

Through her maps, Martha shows that organising information visually can help us make sense of big ideas, new places and even our emotions. The story celebrates creativity, problem‑solving and the many different ways children can express what they know.

It encourages children to look closely at their world, ask questions and share their ideas with confidence.

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Caldy Valley Nature Park Trip 🌳🧭

We will be visiting Caldy Valley Nature Park to explore the environment and enjoy some outdoor learning together.

🌿 Exploring the Natural World
The children will look closely at the plants, wildlife and habitats around the park.

🌉 Bridge Discoveries
As we walk along the paths, we’ll be investigating the bridges we find… and wondering whether a troll might be hiding underneath one of them! 👀🧌

This trip will spark curiosity, encourage imaginative thinking, and help the children connect their classroom learning with the world around them.

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☀️ Sunny Day Reminders

As the weather gets brighter, we want to make sure all our children stay safe and comfortable in the sunshine.

On sunny days, please could you:

🌞 Apply sun cream to your child before school
👒 Pop a sun hat into your child’s book bag

This helps us enjoy our outdoor learning time safely and happily.

Thank you for helping us keep everyone sun‑safe! 💛

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💧 Daily Water Bottles

To help keep everyone refreshed and ready to learn, please send your child to school each day with a named water bottle. Each child has their very own space on our water bottle trolley, so bottles are easy to find and use throughout the day.

As part of our Healthy Eating School Policy, we kindly ask that bottles are filled with water only.

Thank you for helping us build healthy habits! 🌟

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This term, the children will be exploring where letters “live” when we write them, whether they sit in the grass, reach up into the sky, or dip down into the soil. This helps them develop clear and confident handwriting.

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✏️ Applying Our Phonics in Sentences

This half term, we will be supporting the children as they begin to apply their phonic knowledge in their own written sentences. We model this step‑by‑step in class, using clear language and simple strategies that help children feel confident and successful.

You can support this learning at home by using the same approaches we use in school.
The attached video shows exactly how we teach it, so you can follow along in a familiar, friendly way.

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Our Musical Learning Focus 🎵

This term, the children will be exploring a wide range of musical skills and activities. Our learning will include:

🎧 Listening and Appraising
Exploring and responding to Funk music.

🎤 Using Our Voices and Instruments
Building foundational musical skills through singing, speaking, and playing.

🎶 Learning to Sing “Big Bear Funk”
Alongside revisiting well‑known nursery rhymes and action songs.

🥁 Playing Instruments Within the Song
Using percussion and tuned instruments to accompany the music.

✨ Improvisation
Creating our own musical ideas using both voices and instruments.

🔁 Riff‑Based Composition
Learning how repeating patterns can be used to create exciting music.

🎬 Sharing Our Learning
Performing what we’ve been working on and celebrating our progress.

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🥾 Welly Reminders

Please make sure your child’s wellies are clearly labelled with their name.
All wellies will stay at school on our welly rack, ready for outdoor learning and muddy adventures! 🌧️🌿

Thank you for helping us keep everything organised and easy for the children to find. 💛

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🍎 Healthy Snack Time

To support our Healthy Eating School Policy, we kindly ask that children bring a healthy snack to school each day.

We encourage fruit or other simple, nutritious options.
Please avoid sending chocolate, biscuits, or sugary snacks.

Thank you for helping us create healthy habits and keep our children fuelled for learning! 🌟

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cute cartoon animal eating healthy snack

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This is how we will be teaching the children how to pronounce sounds.

Some top tips are available on Seesaw at https://app.seesaw.me/pages/shared_item?item_id=item.3221ee17-4ca5-4efb-86cc-31a57fb9b8e0&share_token=YUftTyZZSzCFGsdw8jDcWw&mode=share

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Our P.E days are Tuesday and Thursday.

Please may your child come to school wearing the school P.E kit, which is:

red shirt

black shorts/skirt/jogging bottoms

navy hoodie

plain black trainers.

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Mini focus text - Little Red Riding Hood

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Mini focus text - Little Red Riding Hood

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🧺 Story Summary: Little Red Riding Hood

Little Red Riding Hood is a classic tale about a kind young girl who sets off through the forest to visit her grandmother. Along the way, she meets a cunning wolf who tricks her and reaches Grandmother’s house first.

Through suspense and familiar repetition, children learn about stranger danger, making safe choices, and the importance of listening to trusted adults. Depending on the version, Little Red Riding Hood is eventually rescued, and she learns to be more cautious on her journeys.

The story supports discussions about safety, consequences, bravery and understanding emotions during unexpected situations.

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🐰 He's wild, he's wicked, he's Little Rabbit Foo Foo! In this read‑aloud book by Michael Rosen, a bunny likes nothing better than to ride through the forest bopping everyone on the head. Wriggly worms, tigers — no one is safe. But here comes the Good Fairy, and she is not amused!

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Focus text - The Three Billy Goats Gruff

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Focus text - The Three Billy Goats Gruff

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🐐 One of our main class texts is The Three Billy Goats Gruff, in which a troll tries to eat three billy goats. We will enjoy sharing this story alongside learning about our broad theme, “Where do we live?”

We will visit a local nature park to search for clues about the troll and to learn about our local area and environment.

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Exploring Our Local Area 🗺️🌳

This term, we will be learning all about our local area and comparing it with other places.

🔵 Shape Hunt – Circles in Our Community
The children will go on a hunt to spot circles in the environment, helping them look more closely at the shapes all around us.

🗺️ Using and Creating Maps
We will learn how to use, interpret and draw simple maps, developing early geography and problem‑solving skills.

🛒 Visit to the Local Shops
The children will visit the local shops, where they will:
• practise independent self‑management skills
• use their number knowledge to choose and pay for ingredients
• work together to buy what we need to make a class cake 🎂

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Numberblocks in Our Learning 🎉

We love using the Numberblocks TV series to support our maths learning in class. Here are the episodes we’ll be exploring this week — feel free to watch them at home too!

🔢 Counting to 20
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NjAg_Tb7wVc

🖐️ Making 5 (including number sentences)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zLZNSNj5nVg

🔟 Ten Again
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2OIOsu69Qu4

➖ Introducing Minus
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CzqrkCAR40c

These short clips are a great way to reinforce what we’re learning in class. Enjoy watching together at home!

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📖 Weekly Poetry Fun

We will continue to learn and share a new poem every week as part of our joyful literacy learning. This helps children build rhythm, expression, confidence and a love of language.
The children will enjoy joining in with the rhyme, actions and playful sounds!

Thank you for celebrating our growing storytellers and poets! ✨

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End‑of‑Year Trip to Sandy Lane Water Park 🌞

Our final trip of the year will be a visit to the Sandy Lane Water Park, a favourite local spot for outdoor fun and exploration.

👫 Joining Year One
We will be sharing this trip with the Year One children as part of our smooth and supportive transition into Key Stage One.

🎉 A Celebration Together
We would love for parents and carers to join us on this special trip as we celebrate a wonderful, successful year of learning and growing together.

🌈 A Fun, Memorable Day Out
This visit will give the children a chance to play, explore and enjoy time with friends before moving up to their new classes.

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PE and Outdoor Adventures 🏃‍♂️🌿

The children have PE every Tuesday and Thursday with Mr Wynne, our PE coach.
This term, we’ll be enjoying lots of outdoor adventures to help build physical confidence and key movement skills.

Our focus will be:

⚽ Developing fundamental movement skills
Jumping, running, hopping, throwing and more.

🤸‍♀️ Building agility, balance and co‑ordination
Becoming increasingly confident both individually and working with others.

🏅 Taking part in competitive and co‑operative activities
Learning to work as a team, take turns, support each other and enjoy friendly challenges.

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In our maths lessons, we follow the National Centre for Excellence in the Teaching of Mathematics (NCETM) scheme of learning.

This week, pupils will be:

• 🔄 Counting from different starting numbers
• 🔟 Exploring the composition of 10
• 🧺 Ordering sets of objects
• ✅ Consolidating their learning so far

These small steps help to strengthen number sense and build confidence in early maths.

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We continue to work with children who need some support with their speech and language by following the Wellcomm speech and language toolkit.

We also use the Nuffield Early Language Intervention (NELI) programme to deliver three small group sessions and two individual sessions to a targeted group of children for 20 weeks.

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SCARF - Being my best and righht and responsibilities

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SCARF - Being my best and righht and responsibilities

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Being my best

Bouncing back when things go wrong

Yes, I can!

Healthy eating

My healthy mind

Move your body

A good night's sleep

Rights and responsibilities

Looking after my special people

Looking after my friends

Being helpful at home and caring for our classroom

Caring for our world

Looking after money: recognising, spending, using

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Transition to Year One 🌱

During the summer term, we begin introducing activities that help the children understand what life will be like in Year One and beyond.

🌳 Afternoon Playtime
We also join the Key Stage One children for afternoon break, helping the children get used to new routines and a larger play environment.

🏫 Getting to Know Year One
Throughout the term, the Year One teachers will visit us in our familiar Reception classroom. Later, the children will have the chance to visit their new classrooms in the main school building, helping them feel confident and excited about the transition.

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Understanding Our Feelings 💬💚

When we come into the classroom in the morning and after lunch, the children choose the colour zone that best matches how they are feeling:

💙 Blue Zone – tired, sad, or not feeling quite themselves
💚 Green Zone – calm, happy, and ready to learn
💛 Yellow Zone – excited, worried, or a little bit wiggly
❤️ Red Zone – angry, upset, or out of control

We then spend time talking about our feelings and exploring strategies that help us return to the green zone, where we feel settled and ready for learning.

This routine helps children build confidence in recognising emotions and managing them in healthy ways.

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This delightful, illustrated adventure is the perfect introduction to the sheer variety of habitats beneath the waves and the different types of oceans and seas around the planet. Little ones are introduced to sea creatures, ocean climates and the importance of caring for our seas through a rhyming story that sees the different oceans gently personified.

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Building Bridges 🧱🌉

This term, the children will have the opportunity to create bridges using a wide range of materials.

🧩 Exploring Different Bridge Types
They will be introduced to a variety of real‑life bridges to spark ideas and inspire their own designs.

🎨 Hands‑On Construction
The children will experiment with many materials as they explore what makes a structure strong and stable.

🧘‍♀️ Bridge Shapes in Yoga
During yoga sessions, they will use their own bodies to create bridge shapes, helping them understand structure, balance and form.

🍥 Playdough Engineering
The children will also investigate how playdough can be used to form bridge pillars and bases, testing what works best.

This project helps develop creativity, problem‑solving and early engineering skills in a fun and practical way!

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📚 End‑of‑Year Reading Expectations

As we move towards the end of the year, we will continue supporting the children to grow as confident, fluent readers. Many children will now be reading Green or Purple books, and our focus will be on strengthening both phonic knowledge and reading fluency.

This term, we will be:

Reviewing Set 2 sounds: ay, ee, igh, ow, oo, oo, ar, or, air, ir, ou, oy

Reading words that contain Set 2 sounds

Building speed and confidence when reading words with Set 1 sounds

We will also be working to identify and close any gaps in sound knowledge, ensuring each child is well supported as they move forward.

Please continue with daily reading at home, and remember to watch the Seesaw portal videos. These are tailored to your child and will help reinforce what we are learning in school. 🌟

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Handwriting and Number Formation ✍️🔢

This term, we will continue to practise and improve our handwriting, and we will now be focusing more closely on forming numbers correctly.

To support your child at home, please watch the videos linked on our Padlet:

📺 Number Formation Videos
https://padlet.com/eyfscherrygrove/eyfs-reception-summer-term-eb9xys5dymk1rog9/wish/mlNDZ3nOgXrAQznG

Watching these together will really help reinforce the skills we are learning in class.

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✨ Who Sank the Boat? is a playful and engaging picture book that follows a group of animals who decide to take a little trip together in a boat. One by one, the cow, donkey, sheep, pig, and tiny mouse climb aboard — and children are invited to wonder: Which one of them caused the boat to sink?

With its rhythmic language, gentle suspense, and humorous illustrations, the story encourages children to make predictions, think logically, and pay attention to detail. It also shows how small actions can have big effects, and how working together doesn’t always go as planned!

The book highlights themes of cause and effect, problem‑solving, observation, and cooperation — all wrapped up in a fun and memorable tale that keeps young readers guessing until the very end.