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This term our enquiry question is
‘How do things change and move?’
This term the children will be thinking about ‘How do things change and move?’ We will be gathering ideas from the children about their own interpretation of the enquiry and also following their interests. We will start the term off with learning about minibeast and then move on to life cycles. This fits really nicely in with our Explorer’s trip to Folly Farm where the children will learn about the life cycle of a butterfly. We will also be learning about different forms of transport and linking them to where people travel for holidays. The children will also be thinking about how they change and grow as they transition into year 1!
The children will also be exploring different places of worship as part of ‘People and Communities’. We have a local trip planned during week 3. The children will walk to St Mary’s Church in Stoke Bishop where they will be ‘church detectives’ for the morning. It’s always such a lovely trip!
At Stoke Bishop we follow a programme called Mastering number. The children really enjoy the materials that we use to teach the programme, especially the number blocks aspect.
Mastering Number starts by building on the children previous experiences of number from home and Pre School.
During Term 6 there is a focus on:
Continuing to develop their counting skills.
Exploring and representing patterns within numbers up to 10, including evens and odds, double facts and how quantities can be distributed equally.
Comparing quantities and numbers, including sets of objects which have different attributes.
Continuing to develop a sense of magnitude, e.g. knowing that 8 is quite a lot more than 2, but 4 is only a little bit more than 2.
Exploring ‘one more than’ and ‘one less than’ numbers within 10.
Continuing to identify when sets can be subitised and when counting is necessary.
Developing conceptual subitising skills including when using a rekenrek.
Every other week, the children will engage in a maths afternoon where they can explore and embed their newly taught maths skills and knowledge through fun and engaging maths learning activities.
In addition, continuous provision is available for the children during independent up and busy time. This is where the children can develop their mathematical skills independently through their play. For example playing games, solving maths problems and exploring capacity, weight and time in the outside garden.
This term is all about consolidation of the phases 2-4 that have been taught this year before moving onto phase 4 mastery. We will be using the latest assessments to ensure that we are working together with you to ensure that your child goes into year 1 with all the phonic skills required. Please look out for information from your child’s class teacher on any specific diagraphs, trigraphs or common exception words that your child still needs to learn this academic year. The purpose of phase 4 is to consolidate children’s knowledge of graphemes in reading and spelling words containing adjacent consonants and polysyllabic words. We will also be reading words with the suffixes ed and ing.
Adjacent consonants will include gl, gr, pl, pr, sc, sk, sm, sn,
The common exception words we are learning this term:
Reading books
As part of the phonic programme, we use regular assessment to help children keep up with the pace and provide additional support where necessary. Through this regular assessment we send home books that are matched to your child’s phonic ability.
Useful documents to help your child with their reading and writing.
More information about our phonic scheme can be found on the website under curriculum – phonics.
As always if you have any questions please don’t hesitate to get in touch with us.