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In term 1 and 2 in Explorers we will be exploring the following question:
What do I know about myself, others and the world?
The aim of this topic is for your child to gain a greater understanding of who they are, people that are important to them and have a view of their wider world including friendships, where they live and the similarities and differences between people in their world. During the term we will be focussing on a range of activities where the children can showcase their current skills, build strong relationships with adults and their peers, gain a sense of belonging at Stoke Bishop C of E Primary School and develop their confidence in speaking and listening. We will be encouraging the children to develop their independence, resilience and perseverance.
We will use a range of texts across the term which will help us to teach and promote the aims above. These will include:
You Choose, The Colour Monster, The Colour Monster goes to School, Your World, My World, Tom Percival stories, Super Duper You
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.
This term there is a focus on
- Subitising (recognising an amount of objects without actually counting them)
- Counting skills
- Composition of number (exploring how all numbers are made up of 1’s and how we can spot smaller numbers ‘hiding’ inside larger numbers.
- Comparison (comparing sets of objects and learning the language of comparison more than / fewer than.)
During lessons the children will also be representing numbers on their fingers in different ways and chorally engaging with sentence stems to embed their learning.
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.
In Explorers we will be teaching phonics using the Unlocking Letters and Sounds programme (please see our phonics page on the website for more information on this programme). The children will begin their phonics journey learning the phase 2 phonemes. The purpose of the phase is to teach at least 19 letters and to move the children on from oral blending and segmentation to blending and segmenting with letters. Our taught sessions will begin when the children are in full time (see below the progression).
The children will be taught 4 phonemes a week, one each day and have a consolidation lesson on Friday, where we will recap the 4 phonemes taught. As the children build up their repertoire of phonemes they will begin to blend them together to read words. Each week we will be sending a short homework home for you to practice these phonemes and begin to read simple words. We will be posting videos on how to pronounce the phoneme correctly on our seesaw platform. The children will also be taught common exception words, these are words that can not be read phonetically.
W/B – 16th September – s a t i
W/B – 23rd September – i n m d
W/B – 30th September – g o c k the
W/B – 7th October – ck e u r to, into
W/B – 14th October – h b f ff no, I
W/B – 21st October – l ll ss go
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.