Dear Parents/Carers
A warm welcome back to you all after the Christmas holidays. We hope you have enjoyed quality time with your families and are all refreshed and well. Hopefully your children have had time to relax and re-energise ready for the exciting and busy term ahead. We have lots of exciting challenges and fun learning planned for them.
We will continue to develop our ‘Happy Minds’ through learning about our brains and how we can look after our minds to be our very best. They will meet the ‘Happy Minds’ team through songs, rhymes, role play and puppets, developing new vocabulary and knowledge to support their learning. They will focus on two topic areas ‘Appreciate and Relate’ and be able to recognise appreciation, gratitude and friendships in real life situations.
During the Autumn Term, a number of children enjoyed choosing their special book to keep after completing their ‘100 Reads’ challenge. We will be starting the reading challenge again this half term and encouraging children to read at least twice a day. Don’t forget to write comments in the reading planners!
In Mathematics, children will be learning how to develop their own ideas and solve problems through the areas of investigating numbers, finding patterns, solving calculation problems and exploring relationships between multiplication and division. They will discover and explore 2D and 3D shapes and continue learning how to talk about what they know in maths through sharing ideas and new vocabulary. Independence and skills will be developed through children selecting appropriate ‘hands on’ resources, drawings, pictures, writing to record and through photographs. In EYFS, children will learn through stories and rhymes as well as role play and ‘real life’ problem solving activities to develop number and numerical patterns. During this term they will focus on developing mastery of numbers to 10 through various representations, comparison and composition of numbers. They will ‘grow’ numbers 6,7 and 8, ‘build’ numbers 9 and 10, and explore numbers to 20 and beyond, compare 3D shapes and explore measures through length, height and time activities. The children will be making links with the world around them all the time.