Welcome to the Beetles!

Hello and welcome!

*Meet the Beetles grown-ups*

The grown-ups in the Beetles class are Mrs Wraith (Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday morning), Mrs Kemal (Wednesday afternoon, Thursday and Friday) Mrs Picker, Miss Murray and Miss Maksymiw.

We love teaching the Beetles and we are so proud of their achievements!

If you ever have any questions, please do not hesitate to ask. Thank you! 

*Our Christian Value for the term*

Our Christian Value this term is ‘Justice.’

Justice means giving all people what it is right and fair for them to have: life, health, freedom and dignity. It is about acting out of a concern for what is right. 

When we think about justice, we also think about the British Value of Tolerance and Mutual Respect and Democracy. 

Deuteronomy 16:20: Follow justice and justice alone.

                      *Our Learning for this term*

Summer term 2

As we head into our final half term of Reception, we are so incredibly proud of our Beetles and everything they have achieved so far.

This term we will continue to investigate seasonal changes; looking at the changes summer brings in our local environment as well as how to stay safe in the sun.

We will be continuing to use Drawing Club as the focus for our writing this term and have some fabulous books and film clips to help stimulate ideas, discussion and creativity in the children verbal and written work.

Our overriding text for this is What the Ladybird Heard On Holiday which we introduce in the first week. We will look at different types of holiday and have a visit from a caravan! The following week we will be taking inspiration from a film clip – when Paddington had afternoon tea with Queen Elizabeth! From this we will look at London as a capital city, things that are associated with London and well as Kings and Queens, the Royal Family and even have a go at making and tasting marmalade sandwiches. As we move to week 3, we will focus on the traditional tale of the 3 Billy Goats Gruff; with the children taking part in STEM activities including bridge building. The story of Burglar Bill with introduce a police theme to our classrooms including teaching the children what to do in an emergency, we will have a visit from the police and learn more about people who help to keep us safe. As we move further into the term, we will use the book Farmer Duck for our Drawing club inspiration. During this week we will learn about where food comes from, have a visit from Good Looking Cooking, a trip to Rand Farm as well as our MARVELLOUS ME MONDAY – which we plan on being a mud day!! The following week we then move to looking at the text 100 Dogs as we teach children about the jobs dogs can do including guide dogs, service dogs and police dogs as well as looking as what animals keep as pets. Our final text of the year is Zog where we will focus on transition and all the achievements from the children’s time in reception.

We have coach Jack working with us again this term in PE.

We will continue to use Charanga to teach our music lessons. This terms’ Unit of Work consolidates the learning that has occurred during the year. All the learning is focused around revisiting chosen nursery rhymes and/or songs, a context for the History of Music and the very beginnings of the Language of Music.

In RE, our learning is focused around Our Beautiful World.

In phonics we continue to use the Little Wandle phonics scheme, where we will be recapping the children’s learning  and developing their independent skills and confidence in reading and writing.

The children are becoming better and better at maths, as they continue to build number skills using our 'Mastering Number' scheme.  Counting, subitising and number recognition, and problem solving with numbers are all skills we encourage every day during child initiated play.

As we approach the end of the academic year, the children will have lots of opportunities to get involved transition activities; meeting their new teachers and talking about how they feel and asking any questions they may have.

*Our Half Termly Newsletters*

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