This Term
Autumn 2 - People who help us
This term, our new topic is "People Who Help Us." We will be exploring the wonderful roles of the people in our community who keep us safe, healthy, and happy—from doctors and firefighters to police officers, veterinarians, and refuse collectors!
Through this topic, children will build confidence, learn about the world around them, and develop key academic and social skills. We are looking forward to a fantastic term of discovery! Please let us know if you or a family member work as a community helper and would be willing to come in and speak to the children.
Our big questions that we will be answering over the course of our topic:
1. what does it mean to be helpful?
2. Do you know how to ask for help in different situations?
3. What would happen if we had no police officers/firefighters/teachers etc?
What do you aspire to be when you grow up?
As always, we will engage with quality texts and visual material to support our learning around our topic. Here are the stories we will be focusing on this half term.
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Stay and Read
Developing a love of reading at an early age will support your child's listening and attention skills, vocabulary development and understanding of the world around them. Your child will be bringing home a book from our 'library' for you to share together at home. This could include talking about what you can see in the pictures, other books that have similar characters, or what you and your child liked or didn't like about the story. We also hold Stay and Read every Friday from 8:45-9am, please join us for this, if you are able, to share in stories with your child.
Drawing Club:
Drawing Club is a special club that promotes confidence in mark making, imagination and writing skills. We use our focus books (as shown above on the page) to teach elements of writing.
The structure drawing club follows is:
Moment 1: Vocabulary Development
Moment 2: Listening to the story
Moment 3: Modelled drawing
Moment 4: Drawing Club. This aspect may be linked to the main character in the book, the setting or adventure time.
If you would like some more information about drawing club, or would like to see your child's work, just ask a member of staff.
PE:
Our PE day will be a Monday. Please come to school wearing your sports leggings or trousers - there is no need for the children to get changed at school. We kindly ask you to support your child with taking off and putting on their socks and shoes. The more they practise this at home, the more independent they will become in PE lessons. This half term we will be practising the different events for our Sports Day.
Phonics and Reading:
We follow the Little Wandle Letters and Sounds scheme at ÎÚÑ»´«Ã½. All children will bring a reading book home with them. This will begin as a wordless book, which is used to encourage language development first, and then move onto books with simple words and phrases in for the children to decode on their own. Please speak to staff if you have any questions or would like any support with phonics.