Our Lady and St Patrick’s RC Primary School

Half Termly Curriculum Newsletter

Class: EYFS                                                                            Summer 1	

	Teacher’s Message	We hope you all had a wonderful break. We have another busy half term planned for EYFS. The children have loved all things pirates and space last half term and I think we know everything you need to know about both areas. This half term we are looking at the evolution of toys. Something I think the children are going to find really interesting.	
	Homework	We are very much on our phonics journey. Please encourage the children to review their sounds. You can ask them “What is your sound of the day today?” Can you help me ‘Fred-Talk’ that?
The children are loving iXL please keep it up with them there will be new recommendations each week. A lovely little task to help the children this half term would be talking about your favourite toys when you were younger. 	
	Reading for Pleasure	Please continue to share lots of stories with your children. Consider a variety of texts like some non fiction fact books alongside some traditional tales. The children have enjoyed showing us their reading records too and talking about their favourite books. We have now got a class login to Oxford Owl to support your child's reading. Username eyfsaok Password OxfordOwl	
	Reading	We have requested two topic boxes from the library this half term. One of them is on multicultural stories to reinforce our understanding of the world and looking at different stories from around the world. The second is fiction and nonfiction books on old and new toys.	
	Literacy	We will be linking our learning to our History topic of old and new toys. Our focus text is Lost in the toy museum and adventure by David Lucas. We will be making lost and found posters. Learning facts about different toys and writing about our favourite toys.  	
	Maths	In Maths we will be looking at numbers to 20, numerical patterns and some shape. The Nursery children will be continuing with the NCETM Number blocks programme.	
	RE	Our focus in RE this half term is Good News learning how Jesus’ disciples shared their good news of Jesus’ return. We are also learning that pentecost is considered the church's birthday.	
	Science	This half term in science we will be continuing to look at plants, planting and how to take care of them. We will be continuing discussions around the life cycle of things like frogs, caterpillars and plants. We will also be growing our own butterflies this half term and making observations. If that wasn’t enough we will be looking at the science behind our toys the technical ones anyway!	
	History	In history we will be looking at old and new toys. We will use our comparison skills learnt last half term to look at a variety of toys and compare them, talk about them and learn how to play them in the best way.	
	Geography	Not a lead subject this half term.	
	Art	In art we will be trying our hand at observational drawings. Our focus will be mainly natural objects like flowers, plants and fruits. We will also be trying different media like pastels, charcoal and watercolours. 	
	Design Technology	Not a lead subject this half term	
	RSHE	In these sessions children will be learning water, beach and sun safety learning how to keep safe in different scenarios. 	
	PE	This half term in PE we will be taking part in team games exploring new games, finding out the rules and strategies to be the best team players.	
	Music	In our music sessions our new topic is called everyone. The children will be listening to a variety of styles of music then discussing their likes and dislikes about what they have heard. They will learn new songs and have the opportunity to explore new instruments.	
	Welly Walks / Forest School	Continuing every Thursday- children are to come in in their own clothes with school uniforms in bags.	
	Upcoming dates/events	

	Teacher contact:	aokane@olsp.uk

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