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Teaching Team Miss Oliver Mrs Fitzgerald Mrs Paynter
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Support Staff Miss Hardwick Miss Shaw Mrs Gardener Mrs Edwards Miss Draper |
Week beginning: 9th June 2025
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Squirrels Class weekly theme Life in the past
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Owls Class weekly theme History
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Our Learning this week includes:
Literacy - Following our visit to Chiltern Open Air Museum the children will discuss what a partner what they learnt and what they enjoyed. We will share some ideas altogether and the teacher will model turning the ideas into a written sentence, checking it makes sense. We will count the words in our oral sentence and have a go at spelling the words using our ‘segmenting fingers’, remembering to use finger spaces between each word. We will check if there are any tricky words we know how to spell. During the course of the week the children will write their own independent sentences about their experience of visiting the Chiltern open air museum. They will also have the opportunity to create their own timeline, with labels, about the visit and make their own maps with labels.
Maths - This week we revisit the skills that are involved in comparing quantities. We will be using a balance scale to compare the numerosity of groups of objects; constructing steps for our toys, and carrying out simple surveys. These activities will enable the children to practise these key skills:
- comparing by looking, then by matching 1-to-1
- understanding when groups have an equal amount
- beginning to know ‘1 more/1 less’ within 10
- developing a sense of magnitude, e.g. knowing that 8 is a lot more than 2, but that 4 is only a little bit more than 2
Understanding of the World - We are excited to visit the Chiltern Open Air Museum on Monday and find out more information about what life was like in the past. Focussing on the story The Little Red Hen we will be learning how to make bread a long time ago, growing and planting wheat, grinding it to make flour, measuring ingredients without digital weighing scales and cooking without an electric oven.
Expressive Art and Design - This week we will be making a special card for someone special to us. Using paint we will talk about what can be used to make the strokes - brushes are banned! We will explore what else we can use and then have a go at painting an ice lolly.
| Phonics focus of the week | Song of the week | Words of the week |
Poem of the week |
| Short vowels CVCC | The doubles rap | history, past, present, future |
Dance |
Our termly Class letter is viewable here
What the children say...
In our EYFS unit we plan according to the children's interests. We spend time talking to the children, asking them what they already know and what they would like to find out.
Our weekly themes are led by the children. Each week we share ideas and then pick a theme for the coming week.
Our PE days for both classes are:
- Wednesday (am)
- Friday (am)
RE learning
In Religious Education, we will be learning about different celebrations and festivals which link to the heritage of some of the children.
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