For reading / phonics:

Please listen to your child read their school book every day. Additional home reading is always encouraged, please record all reading in their Learning Journals. The children enjoy our daily story time in class, which can also be mirrored at home. We will also be reading a class text every week during our guided reading time. The children will practise listening, blending, echo and choral reading. 

In Phonics, we are continuing to use the Sounds Write approach to support the children with their learning. The first week of term one, we will be recapping the sounds from the last term in reception. For many children, this will be reflected in their reading book. We will then start to introduce new sounds and spellings. 

Week 2 & 3: 'ea' sound with spellings ay, ai, ea, a 

Week 4 & 5: 'ee' sound with spellings e, ea, ee, y, ie

Week 6 & 7: 'oe' sound with spellings oa, ow, o, oe'

English:

This term the children will be learning about nouns and verbs through exploring quality texts. We will be starting the term reading 'The Smartest Giant in Town', then 'Beegu', along with other books. They will have the opportunity to talk about the stories, verbally retell, using role play and story maps to help them. As a class, they will learn how to build a sentence during whole class English input. A range of own learning activities will support them with their fine and gross motor skills, such as cutting, pencil control, building, threading, and junk modelling. This term, handwriting is a key focus in our English lessons. 

DT

Rather than healthy fruit smoothie, it should say healthy fruit plate

PE  

Please can you delete the 'specialist teacher' bit as not all classes will have that this term. Instead of gymnastics it is striking and fielding games.