Welcome to the Butterflies!

Hello and welcome!

*Meet the Butterflies grown-ups*

The grown-ups in the Butterflies class are Miss Barkes and Mrs Rawlins. We love teaching the Butterflies 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 ‘Friendship.’

Friendship is such an important value in our society, with children often spending more time with their friends than with family.

Jesus tells stories of the heavenly banquet to which all are invited. The barriers between people are broken down in a loving community around God, and Jesus had stern words to say to those who refused to recognise that all are included in this community of friendship.

True friendship enables each person to grow and ensures that the unique individuality of each person is recognised. All this echoes the value placed by God on the preciousness of each person.

‘A friend loves at all times.’ (Proverbs 17:17)

*Our Learning for this term*

Summer Term 2 2026

This term, the reception children will be learning all about summer, and our Drawing Club books will be focused for the most part on stories about the holiday season.  What the Ladybird Heard will be our first text, and in the following weeks we will base our writing on 100 Dogs, Three Billy Goats Gruff, Mud, Burglar Bill, Zog and stories about London and the royal family.  As we get closer to the end of the term, our trip to Rand Farm will inspire us to learn more about farm animals, with both fiction and non-fiction books.

In phonics, we will continue to recap the phonemes we have learnt, and we will work on the children’s fluency in reading and independence in writing. Our focus is on long vowel sounds, and words with various endings such as ed, id, t, d and es.

In maths, the children will be consolidating their knowledge and building their confidence in all areas, with lots of problemsolving, estimating, subitising and comparison work. We are introducing the use of Rekonreks to support children’s mathematical understanding and fluency with numbers.

Our Understanding the World activities will include looking at seasonal change, how to keep safe in the sun and how people (and animals) help us. We will also be comparing Lincoln to hotter countries like Nigeria and will look at natural and man-made landmarks. Our RE lessons will focus on Our Beautiful World. We will be doing lots of work around transitions as we edge towards the end of the academic year, and the children will have the opportunity to talk about hopes and any anxieties in our PSED sessions before they leave reception to move up to Year One.

We will have some special days during the summer term – National Mud Day will be fun, and we will have our trip to Rand Farm, and Sports Day, too!

The children will be spending time with their new teachers later in the term, as part of their preparation for Year One. We are all amazed at how fast the year is passing, and can’t believe that our Honeybees, Beetles and Butterflies will soon be fluttering off to their next classes! We’ll miss them so much!

Teaching of Phonics - Pure Sounds