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Our BIG question for this half term will be...

How can we care for our wonderful world?

We will explore the Christian belief that God made our wonderful world and so we should look after it. We will explore the world precious and gain a good understanding oh how we can take care of things that are precious to us and to others.

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This half term children will learn to identify potential risks to their safety and will develop an understanding of how they can take some responsibility for their own safety in different situations, including examining the need for safety rules in order to keep themselves and others safe.

We will consider exploring safe and unsafe places to play, learning basic road safety skills and how to keep safer if they are ever lost or become separated from a parent/carer.

Finally we will consider what medicines are and why some people need medicines.

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We will continue to visit our ‘forest school’ area weekly in order to explore the natural world around us. We will make links with the wildlife we observe and how they vary, as we consider the similarities and differences in their habitats.

We will also be making observations drawings of the wildlife we find, providing it stays still for long enough!

Children will continue to develop a greater understanding of changes in the seasons.

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In literacy we will start our term by climbing beanstalks with Jack and then Jim. We will also be reading some factual gardening books for tips on what to grow and how to care for our plants.

Children will continue to practice and develop their handwriting, ideally, using a tripod grip. Please keep encouraging your children to practice their spellings on Ed Shed and learn to read and write the tricky word they brought home before the Easter holidays.

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We will be aiming to develop children's 'Social Oracy' by encouraging them to take turns to talk and listen and encouraging others to take part as well supporting children to talk confidently, thinking about their audience and using full sentences, including past, present and future tenses.

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In maths, children will be building and recognising numbers to 20 and beyond using a range of resources (tens frames, bead strings, Numicon and towers of blocks) to help the children recognise patterns in numbers, e.g. that larger numbers are composed of 10’s and part of the next 10.
We will also continue to provide opportunities for children to explore and manipulate shapes, so that children recognise a shape can have other shapes within it.

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In music sessions children will learn songs involving meeting and greeting, with a time change from march to jig.

They will compose new words for the greeting section of the song. Sing a song that includes a time change from march to a jig, play untuned percussion instruments and use movement to show the beat changing.

At the end of the half term we are hoping that most of our children will be confident to perform a song and dance simultaneously.

Children will be encouraged to use paint programs on our kindles and ipads to draw and paint from their imagination and also from observation.

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In PE lessons, children will develop their understanding of playing games through the topic of 'transport'. They will practise and further develop fundamental movement skills through games. They will also learn how to score and play by the rules, how to work with a partner and begin to understand what a team is, as well as learning how to behave when winning and losing. Children will be taught to: Move around safely and with control. Have an awareness of others and items in the teaching space. Take turns when instructed.

To store equipment safely when not in use.

In addition we will continue to develop children's core strength and fine motor skills to ensure they are able to sit on a chair, hold a pencil effectively and form letters correctly.