Reception (Earth Class)

Welcome to Earth Class

(2024-2025)

Summer Term 1

Over Arching Theme: Once Upon a Time

Learning for Life: Building Relationships (My Family & Friends)

Nursery Rhyme Basket: Complex Language Rhymes

Music and Movement: Musical Stories

Together we will…

Thinking about the importance of positive relationships.
Investigating everyday materials.
Exploring and creating simple maps.
Investigating and comparing the UK with Africa and China.
Looking at how traditional tales have changed throughout history.
Talking about Christianity and the importance of respecting differing beliefs.
Developing our VIPERS reading skills and writing skills using our new stories 'The Three Little Pigs' and 'The Ugly Duckling'.
Exploring musical instruments and arrangements through stories.
Investigate numbers to 20 and beyond, addition and subtraction and manipulating shapes during our White Rose Maths lessons.
Continue our Bug Club journey by starting Phase 4 Phonics.

This is only a small snapshot of all the fantastic adventures we will be taking this half term. You can find more of what we will be doing on our Curriculum Overview within the Class Documents folder on this page.

Helpful Hints:

Please ensure that all uniform, water bottles and bags are clearly named.
In Earth class we play outside whatever the weather so please make sure your child has a suitable coat, sun hat and a water bottle (Learning through Play is thirsty work!)
Once Introduced - Reading books will be changed weekly, We aim to read with children 1-2-1 twice a week.
Once introduced - Bug Club e-books will be updated according to the phase and week the children are on.
When books are sent home, reading should be a daily occurrence. Ideally, your child should be reading aloud to an adult everyday, this should be recorded in the reading record.
Visits to Smokey Row will be on a Thursday
A Library session will take place on a Friday