Reception 2024 - 2025

EYFS (Foundation Stage 2) 2024 - 2025

Miss Thwaite

Teaching Assistants: Mrs Halpin (Monday), Mrs Christian (Wednesday), Mrs Taylor (Tuesday, Thursday, Friday)

Summer Term 2025

Hello and welcome to summer term at St Mary of the Angels Foundation Stage 2 (EYFS). In this term your child will continue to learn through a combination of adult led and child-initiated activities. Play is vital for children's development and they will continue to learn and develop skills and knowledge in our indoor and outdoor learning environments.

Here you will find everything you need to know about what your child will be learning at school.

We have lots more lovely and exciting things to look forward to in our summer term such as visiting the Blue Planet Aquarium. We have two more Forest School sessions as well and we are going to be very busy!

Religious Education

In RE this term we will continue to learn about the meaning of our school mission statement - Love Jesus, Love Learning, Love Life. Our topics are 'New Life' where the children will hear the story of Jesus appearing to Mary Magdalene when He rose from the dead and why this is so important, and 'Our Church Family' where the children will learn that we call the church the family of God and that we all belong to this family. We will read a variety of stories from the bible and will continue to join in our school prayers. 

Phonics and Literacy

The children will recap on the level 3 sounds of the Twinkl phonics programme and will be introduce to level 4. They will practise recognising the sounds they have learnt so far, will continue to identify the initial sounds of words and objects and will practise letter formation. They will also segment and blend CVC (cat), CVCC (tent) and CCVC (stop) words and will practise recognising and reading tricky words that cannot be sounded out, e.g. 'you'. We will practise writing sentences using our phonic knowledge and tricky words, remembering to include finger spaces, capital letters and full stops in our work.

We will continue to develop our speaking and listening skills and will read the books 'Silly Doggy' and 'Supertato', amongst many others related to our interests and topics. We will talk about the characters and stories in order to develop a good understanding of what we have heard and will create simple recounts.

Your child will continue to bring home four reading books each week, two from our school reading scheme and one Rhino Reader and minibook to allow them to practise the sounds they have learnt and the phonics skills they have been taught that week.

Mathematics

In Maths we will continue to practise recognising, matching and comparing numbers, counting larger sets of objects accurately using one to one correspondence (touching each object as it is counted), and subitising (identifying how many objects are in a set without counting). We will practise finding one more and one less than sets of objects and numbers, will add and subtract numbers and will continue to practise learning number bonds to five then ten, learning to five by heart, and subtraction facts. We will explore size, weight, capacity and 2d and 3d shapes and patterns.

Topic Activities

Our summer term topics will be 'Under the Sea' where we will investigate and explore a variety of sea creatures, comparing and contrasting them. We will learn about floating and sinking and how to look after the world and will make our own junk model boats, seascapes and paintings of our favourite sea creatures. We will listen to the story of 'The Rainbow Fish' and will act it out using puppets.

During our 'Up in the Air' topic we will learn about space and the planets and will create junk model rockets and space ships. We will learn about the job of an astronaut, will listen to and act out the story 'Whatever Next' and will design and make superhero puppets and will talk about our favourite superheroes.

This term we will also continue to explore technology and how it is used in everyday life. We will take part in activities using BeeBots and will continue to learn about E-Safety. 

Supporting your child with their learning

There are many ways in which you will be able to support your child with their learning during the summer term. Every Friday Google Classrooms will detail what we have been learning during the week and will contain activity ideas you can complete with your child. You can access this using your log in details which have previously been  provided to you. I will also continue to send home additional games and activities.

Your child will continue to bring home a phonics book which will contain the sounds/information about what they have been taught each week. Please help your child to practise recognising the sounds and tricky words regularly as this is so important for the development of their reading and writing skills. Please also listen to your child read every night, talk to them about the stories and characters and write a comment in their reading record. Books will be changed by a member of staff on a regular basis.

PE Days

Our PE day is Thursday. Please make sure that your child comes into school in their PE kit on this day and remove earrings if your child has their ears pierced.

Forest School Dates:

Unless stated otherwise, our Forest School dates for this year are as follows:

24th October 2024

9th January 2025

20th March 2025

1st May 2025

19th June 2025 (amended date)

Please ensure that your child comes into school on these days dressed accordingly to the weather forecast in old clothes which you don't mind getting dirty! During the winter months it is important that children are wrapped up with multiple layers. If they are wearing an all in one they will need a coat for the afternoon along with a change of shoes. Please ensure that additional clothing your child brings in to school is clearly labelled with their name.

Open Invitation

You are always welcome to chat with me after school, or to make an appointment at the school office. Thank you for your ongoing support and we look forward to continuing to work with you and your child this term.

Kind regards,

Miss Thwaite