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Here you will find lots of useful information about our termly topics as well as photos and updates on our learning. 

Autumn 1

All About Me

This half-term our topic is ‘All About Me’. We will be sharing some of things that make us, us! We will explore likes/dislikes, family, portraits, special skills and qualities. We will take the opportunity to learn about all the fun of the fair when Goose Fair and Ilkeston fair come to visit.

Communication and language: We will be working on sharing special things about ourself and using talk to get to know one and other. Children will work on using sentences to share and listening to others.

 

Personal social and emotional development: Children to be introduced to the school rules of being ‘ready, respectful, safe and kind.’  Children will learn what these mean and how these look in school.

Our focus Rainbow Value this half-term is Respect and acceptance. 

Physical development: The children will explore different ways of moving this half term- running, walking, skipping, jumping. We will play some simple games where children have to follow instructions.

 

Literacy:

Our key texts this half term are: 
 

We are all different: a twinkl story.

The Lion Inside

From Head to Toe

Family and Me

Super Duper You.

The Gruffalo

You choose

The children will be practicing their oral blending and segmenting skills.

We will learn the phase 2 sounds and begin to read simple CVC words.

The children will get lots of opportunities for mark-making within provision.

 

Maths: In Maths this half-term we will be:

Singing number songs and rhymes.

Identifying and matching sets.

Comparing height and weight.

Exploring capacity and patterns.

Exploring 1, 2, 3.

 

Knowledge and Understanding of the World:

The children will be learning about Autumn – identifying and spotting signs of Autumn.

We will be sharing photos of our family and talk about how all families are different. 

We will be learning about, and sharing experiences of, the fair.

 

Expressive art and design: Portraits will be our focus for EAD this half term – children will be doing self-portraits and family portraits. Children will also draw people in the style of Helen Oxenbury.

 

We are always here for a chat; either in school or using our message system, Arbor. Please feel free to send photos showing your adventures at home, we love to see them!