Term 6:

Welcome back, we hope you enjoyed the May half term! We are looking forward to Term 6 and have lots of fun things planned.

Computing

In computing week, we will use software called Scratch to help us with our programming skills. The children will use programming blocks to use, modify, and create programs. They will also be introduced to the early stages of program design through the introduction of algorithms.

Enquiry Learning

We will begin with a new enquiry, “What am I?” where we will be Scientists learning about animals (including humans). To enhance our learning, we will be going on a trip to Noah’s Ark Zoo Farm. The children will have the chance to explore the farm and participate in an educational session. Our skills during this enquiry will be identifying and classifying and observing closely to help us answer questions.

We will then move on to our final enquiry “What might I do in the future?” where we will be artists and engineers, creating a piece of artwork. Look out for vocabulary such as cutting, shaping, joining, finishing and representing.

Philosophers (PSHE)

We move onto the “Changing Me” jigsaw piece. The children will learn about ways in which they have changed since they have been babies, identifying parts of the bodies that make boys different to girls and using the correct names for these parts and be able to talk about changes that have happened in their lives.

Mathematicians:

We will be learning about fractions by finding a half and quarter of shapes, objects and quantities and then we will move onto position and direction.

Authors:

This term, we will explore the book ‘The Lion Inside’ and use it to help us invent and write our narrative. Through this, we will focus on unpicking the structure of a narrative and the use of adjectives to describe settings. After this, we will then begin to explore the non fiction genre of writing, information posters. We will use ‘The Big Book of Beasts’ book and scientific vocabulary learned through enquiry to support us in writing animal fact posters. Finally, we will finish the year with poetry writing and then writing a letter to a Reception child, supporting them with the transition to Year 1!

Athletes (PE)

The children have 2 sessions weekly. This term, one of their sessions will be practising skills and games to prepare for sports day and the other will continue with their personal and social skills through REAL PE.

Key Information

Homework: Your child will be given homework every Friday. Some children will continue practising GPC's learned as well as stretching and reading real words and nonsense words (alien words). Others will bring home homework that focuses on learning to read and write green and red words. Green words can be stretched out and children can apply their phonic knowledge to hear and write digraphs and trigraphs. Red words can not be stretched out and need to be learnt by sight. We would be really grateful if you could support them in their learning

P.E: 

Venus and Neptune now both have PE on a Monday and a Thursday.

Please send your child to school in their P.E kit on their P.E days. This should include a plain white t-shirt, black shorts, leggings or joggers and appropriate black P.E shoes

Communication: You can contact your child's class teacher through their class email address: venus@stannesinfants.co.uk and neptune@stannesinfants.co.uk. Please bear in mind that this inbox is not checked on a daily basis. Class teachers are also available briefly at the end of the day, once all children have been collected.