Welcome to F2

Class Teachers / Key Worker: Mrs Buckley & Mrs Eagle

Monday & alternate Tuesday - Mrs Green 

alternate Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday - Mrs Buckley

Support Staff: Mrs Eagle

Start Time: 08:55am                  Pick-Up Time: 3:30pm

Thank you to all who attended our 'Welcome to F2: Parent Meeting'. Please see below for the slides shared in the meeting. 

Many parents often ask - what can we do to help our child at home? Here are some suggestions of things that you can do, play and talk about together at home to support your child in meeting the Early Learning Goals by the end of F2/Reception. 

Summer 1

Our theme this half term is 'On the farm'.

Our core texts are Farmer Duck and The Little Red Hen. We will be learning about story structure, settings and events, and learning lots of rich story vocabulary.

Maths

We follow maths mastery approach. This half term, we will be focusing on 3D shapes, the composition of numbers up to 20, and adding and taking away.

Understanding the World

The Foundations Of:

RE – This half term we are using NATRE - National Association of Teachers of Religious Education, to focus on special places for Muslims and Christians. Our key question is “Which places are special and why?” Within the unit, pupils reflect upon places that are special in their own lives and find out about places that are holy and important for many Christians and Muslims.

History– What were jobs like in the past? We will be using our knowledge of traditional tales to look at some of the occupations and how they have changed over time.

Geography- What is a farm? We will be starting to look at what space is needed and how it is used to care for animals.

Science- What is inside an egg? We will be learning about lifecycles and noticing the changes that happen at each stage. We will be hatching our own caterpillars to watch the lifecycle of a butterfly up close. Children will identify different animals that lay eggs and talk about the young animals that hatch from them.

Computing- Programming: Bee-bots. We will be learning how to give and follow simple directional instructions, and experimenting with coding by using programmable toys.

Personal, Social and Emotional Development

 The Foundations Of:

PSHE – Health and Well-being: Physical Health. We will be learning about our bodies, and will be able to show some understanding of good practices regarding exercise, eating, sleeping and hygiene and oral health can contribute to good health.

Expressive Arts and Design

The Foundations Of:

Music- Charanga: Well-being Matters.

Big Emotions: Mindful Music for Little People by Laura Loft is a beautiful wellbeing book that helps children explore big emotions. Using music, art and movement, Big Emotions provides a creative wellbeing toolkit for young children, helping them recognise and regulate their own ‘big emotions’.

Children will learn up to three songs with actions that explore different emotions and share their message through voice and non-verbal communication. They will get creative with movement, music and songwriting with different backing tracks to express thier feelings. They will explore a range of dynamics and learn to control performing them neatly together, following a leader.

They will discover how a relaxing breathing technique can help to prepare for a performance by calming the body and mind.

Design & Technology- Textiles: joining and weaving. We will be learning about how textiles differ from other materials, and learning simple ways to join and fix them. Children will be introduced to threading and simple sewing.

We will also be continuing our learning about the primary colours and how to effectively mix powder paints to create new colours, and different shades of colours.

Physical Development 

PE – Games: In this unit children will practise and further develop their fundamental movement skills through the topic of 'around the world'. Children will learn and develop these skills by playing a variety of games. They will also learn how to work as a team, take turns, keep the score, play against an opponent and play by the rules.

We will also be using our outdoor area to develop our gross motor skills. The children love to practice their running, moving, climbing and throwing skills and have access to our outdoor area every day to practice these. Children should come dressed appropriately to play outside every day in all weathers.

Key Information

PE

F2 PE day is on a Thursday. Children need to come to school wearing their PE kit and will stay in their PE kit all day. School uniform is not required on a Thursday.

Our school PE kit is: black or blue shorts, white t-shirt (no logos please), trainers and a tracksuit for colder months (again, no logos please). 

Reading in School

In school, we teach reading daily using Read Write Inc (RWI). More information regarding this can be found on the RWI school website page or on the Ruth Miskin website copied below.

Phonics - Read Write Inc

https://www.ruthmiskin.com/parentsandcarers/

Reading at Home

• Reading books will be changed every Monday unless the children have not read the book.
• Children should be encouraged to read their book at least 3 times a week and this should be recorded in their reading record.
• The children will bring home a RWI book and a book of their choice for reading for pleasure.
• Please find attached below a list of reading questions you can ask your child to promote discussions about what they are reading. This will help to improve their fluency, recall,  retrieval and inference skills.

Class Dojo

We use Class Dojo to share information about what is happening at school. We add photos and information weekly to our class page so you can find out more about what we have been busy learning! You can also upload photos from home for us to use in our 'Show and Share' sessions. 

Curriculum Games Online

https://www.topmarks.co.uk/maths-games/3-5-years/counting

https://www.topmarks.co.uk/maths-games/5-7-years/counting

https://www.phonicsplay.co.uk/resources/phase/2

https://www.phonicsbloom.com/uk/game/list/phonics-games-phase-2