This year you are lucky enough to have two different teachers within your class. You will have Mrs Hamm Balliu Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday and Mrs Lindop on Wednesday, Thursday and Friday. 

You will also have Mrs Crompton in class on Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday and Mrs Fowles on Thursday and Friday.  

PE will take place every Thursday.

For PE sessions please bring the following:

- Black shorts, leggings or jogging bottoms

- White t-shirt or polo shirt

- Black pumps or trainers

It is usually best to leave your child's PE kit in school for the half-term so that it is always available to use.

It is important that your child brings their reading book into school each day  as following our Read Write Inc scheme, the day your child's book is changed will be different each week, to match our planning. Also the days on which they will be able to read with an adult may change from time to time.

It is also crucial that you listen to your child read each evening and ensure that you sign their reading record highlighting what they have read and how they performed.

In addition to a book bag book (phonics book) your child will also be given a lending library book for you to read and enjoy with your child. 

Story bags will be given out on Monday of your child's focus week, they have some activities and toys to enjoy alongside a book! Please return the book on Friday and share any photos to see-saw. 

Homework will be set on a Tuesday through our online learning platform, tapestry.

All homework should be completed by the following Monday and will be checked by your teacher on this day. Please make sure that if you are having difficulties with the homework, that you contact your class teacher with plenty of time so that they can assist your child in its completion. 

We love to hear what your child has been up to at home, proud moments or achievements. Please send photos via the tapestry app so we can share as part of our show and tell on Friday!

Our current topic is: Would we find a dinosaur in Timperley village?

This half term we are learning all about dinosaurs, learning facts and reading lots of stories including 'Gigantosaurus' by Jonny Duddle. 

Week 1 - (3 day week) Settling back into school sharing our holiday news/ Asking the big question / White Rose maths 3D shapes and pattern/caption writing

Week 2 – What dinosaurs do I know? - Stunning start- breaking dinosaur eggs

Week 3 – Which is the best habitat for a dinosaur to live in? Linked to science

Week 4 – Did all dinosaurs eat the same things? School trip to Imagine that! Wednesday 14^th May

Week 5 – What can we find out about dinosaurs? What did Mary Anning find when digging the soil? (History enquiry)

Walk to the library Timperley village

Our fantastic finish- will be making dinosaur fossils!

Dates for your diary - 

Wednesday 14th May - Trip to Imagine that! In Liverpool

Thursday 22nd May - Walk to Timperley library (morning) 

This half term we will be focusing of teaching and recapping the early learning goals, below is a link to those goals for across the areas of learning. 

In literacy we will be learning to...

• Articulate their ideas and thoughts in well-formed sentences
• Use new vocabulary in different contexts
• Ask questions to find out more and to check they understand what has been said to them
• Use talk to help work out problems and organise thinking and activities
• Explain how things work and why they might happen
• Connect one idea or action to another using a range of connectives
• Describe events in some detail
• Retell the story, once they have developed a deep familiarity with the text; some as exact repetition

In writing...

-Form most lower-case letters correctly

-Spell words by identifying the sounds and then writing the sound with letter/s

-Re-read what they have written to check that it makes sense

-Write captions/phrases and begin to write simple sentences using known GPCs …sentence, full stop, capital letter . Include word spacing. Orally rehearse caption of sentence before writing

-Re-read what they have written to make sure it makes sense

-Begin to write a variety of fiction and non-fiction sentences/captions

Pathways to Write outcome

In maths we will be learning to...

• Recognise and name 3d shapes
• Recognise and name 3D shapes
• Find 2D shapes within 3-D shapes
• Use 3D shapes for tasks
• 3D shapes in the environment
• Identify more complex patterns
• Copy and continue patterns
• Patterns in the environment
• Build numbers beyond 10 (10−13)
• Continue patterns beyond 10 (10−13)
• Build numbers beyond 10 (14−20)
• Continue patterns beyond 10 (14−20)
• Verbal counting beyond 20
• Verbal counting patterns
• Add more
• How many did I add?
• Take away
• How many did I take away?

In PE we will be learning about how to play invasion games - Multi skills sessions

• Select and collect equipment with other people
• Continue to follow rules for a game
• Begin to explain how to play a game
• Wait my turn to be a finder/leader
• Create and follow new rules to a game

-Work and play cooperatively

• With a partner
• Share thoughts and ideas in a pair or small group

-Navigate space confidently

• Find space to move to avoid being caught … escape
• Search in specific areas to find objects

-Think carefully to solve a problem

-Think positively and believe in success

-Continue to refine the fundamental movement skills they have already acquired: - rolling - crawling - walking - jumping - running - hopping - skipping – climbing

-Begin to progress towards a more fluent style of moving, with developing control and grace

-Develop overall body-strength, balance, co-ordination and agility

-Use their core muscle strength to achieve a good posture when sitting at a table or sitting on the floor

-Combine different movements with ease and fluency

-Further develop and refine a range of ball skills including: passing, batting and aiming… pass,, aim

We will also continue to develop  fine motor skills...

-To use a range of tools competently, safely and confidently. Suggested tools: pencils for drawing and writing, paintbrushes, scissors, knives, forks and spoons

-Begin to develop the foundations of handwriting style which is fast, accurate and efficient, consolidating:

-Effective pencil grip

-Correct letter formation 

As communicators we will be learning to....

- Demonstrate good listening behaviours

-Listen attentively and begin to respond to what they hear with relevant questions, comments and actions when being read to and during whole class/small group discussions

-Listen to and talk about stories to build familiarity and understanding

-Join in confidently with repeated refrains/fill in rhyming words

-Discuss characters, events and setting

-Listen carefully to and learn a larger repertoire of rhymes, poems and songs

-Begin to recite some familiar repetitive poems, with prompts/support

-Begin to understand humour e.g. nonsense rhymes/jokes

-Begin to listen to and talk about non-fiction books, developing a familiarity with new knowledge and vocabulary

-Hold and initiate conversation when engaged in back-and-forth exchanges, within a broader range of topics, with their teacher and peers.

-Understands ‘when’ questions

As thinkers and explorers we will...

-Learn key facts about dinosaurs, such as there names and what makes them special, for example they have wings or horns. 

-Learn the terms carnivore, omnivore and herbivore and what this means about a dinosaurs diet. 

-To think about our own food choices and how they may affect our health. 

-Know some similarities and differences between things in the past and now, drawing on their experiences and what has been read in class

-Comment on images of familiar situations in the past

-Talk about the lives of the people around them and their roles in society.

-Talk about / take on the role of a range of occupation: Dentist, Florist, pilot, police officer, sailor,

-Name familiar places they pass on the way to / from school, understand that not everyone has the same journey

- To understand about road safety and how to stay safe on the road.

-To understand about the importance of staying clean and routines such as tooth brushing and hand washing.  

-Describes his/her immediate environments using knowledge from observation, discussion, stories, non-fiction texts and maps

To compare different landscapes with our local area to think about whether they would make a good home for dinosaurs. 

As artists we will...

- Invent, adapt and recounts narratives and stories with peers and his/her teacher.

-Performs songs, rhymes, poems, and stories with others, and – when appropriate – tries to move in time with music.

-Sings a range of well-known nursery rhymes and songs.

Makes use of props and materials when role playing characters in narratives and stories.

-Safely uses and explores a variety of materials, tools and techniques, experimenting with colour, design, texture, form and function.

-Shares his/her creations, explaining the process he/she has used.